City CentreWindsor

Renting in City Centre eats 47% of household income, more than in Ontario’s towns and across Canadian towns

Just over a third of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, above Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. The median home value was $250,000, below Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike.

Trips to work from City Centre are shorter than from Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 20 min on average

By car: that was how 78% of commuters travelled at the census.

Four parallel systems run City Centre’s schools through 4 boards: English and French, public and Catholic

The 3 km around City Centre counts 18 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 3 alternative or adult schools, 12,635 students between them. Of the 23 with results, 16 sit in the lower two fifths in Ontario. Schooling in French is on offer at 5 of 27; in Ontario, 10% of schools teach in it.

52% of adults around City Centre rate their health very good or excellent

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit

Smokers make up just over a tenth of the region’s adults, above Ontario’s towns (10%) and close to Canadian towns (12%). Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.3, women 83.5 and men 79.2 (2022/2024). For City Centre itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

City Centre has warmer summers than Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 28.3°C

There are 115 days of frost in a typical year, lower than both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). January nights in City Centre drop to −7.1°C on average. Between the last spring frost, 17 April, and the first in autumn, 1 November, lie 197 days. Snow peaks in January: 43 cm in a normal year.

City Centre gets a C+ for safety

Measured across the Windsor service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 79 over 2023–25, above both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). The force’s area logs 39.6 thefts, break-ins and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year.

City Centre is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex

Shared with the rest of the city of Windsor: earthquake risk

Little of the land around City Centre has burned: 0.2% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.009% a year. Radon is higher than usual: 14% of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town.

Visible minorities make up more of City Centre than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 51%

Retirement age and beyond: just over a fifth of residents are 65 or older. Children under 15 make up 11%, lower than both Ontario’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%).

Expect November days around 9°C in City Centre, nights around 1°C

By December, a normal day reaches 3°C and a night falls to −4°C. Expect about 73 mm of rain and snow over November. Snow is normal by November, about 5 cm over the month. Across the year, normals run from −7°C nights in January to 28°C afternoons in July.

Each seat on Windsor’s council stands for 24,510 residents, more than in 97% of Ontario municipalities

City Centre is part of Windsor, which elected Drew Dilkens as mayor in October 2022.

Windsor public library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than four in five Ontario’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Windsor’s: Windsor public library serves all 234,219 people of the city, City Centre among them.

A national park 55 km from City Centre: Point Pelee National Park

Parks and reserves take up 0.2% of the ground within 10 km, below Ontario’s towns (2.3%) and Canadian towns (2.3%) alike. 5.6 km from town is Ojibway Prairie Provincial Park, the nearest provincial park. One unnamed beach is mapped within 5 km.

2 historic places in City Centre, one of them a top designation

At the 2021 census, 32% of homes dated from before 1961, above both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (18%). Go back to 1811 and you reach François Bâby House, the oldest of them. Designations here include a provincial or municipal listing.