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Rent takes more of local pay in East Windsor than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 27% of household income

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Windsor metro area

Owners put the median home at $300,000, lower than both Ontario’s towns ($695,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). A fifth of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than Ontario’s towns (22%) yet higher than Canadian towns (18%).

Commuters in East Windsor have a short way to work, 20 min on average, less than in Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

4 school boards overlap in East Windsor, covering Ontario’s four systems

In French: 5 of the 41 schools, where in Ontario the share is 10%. On the tests, 9 of 39 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 20 under it. Within 3 km of East Windsor are 32 elementary schools, 7 secondary schools and 2 alternative or adult schools, teaching 19,240 students.

Summer runs warm in East Windsor: July highs of 29.2°C, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Frost comes on 113 days a year, below Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159) alike. Expect January lows of around −6.3°C in East Windsor. January is the snowiest month, with 33 cm on average. A normal May brings 94 mm of precipitation, more than any other month.

East Windsor earns a C+ for safety

The index for the force that serves it came to 79, higher than both Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67). For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 39.6 property crimes are reported each year.

Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in East Windsor’s health region

For East Windsor itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average 18% of adults, higher than both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.3, women 83.5 and men 79.2 (2022/2024). Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for East Windsor alone, so this card uses the figure for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.

East Windsor is on Canada’s flood inventory: 2 listed, led by Essex Region Conservation Authority / County of Essex

Wildfire is rare near East Windsor: 0.2% of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, a burn rate of 0.007% 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.

More of East Windsor’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 4.7%

Nearly a fifth of residents belong to a visible minority, below Ontario’s towns (26%) but above Canadian towns (15%). Children under 15 make up 16%, close to both Ontario’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (16%).

What November brings in East Windsor: 2°C at night, 10°C by day

ECCC’s forecast for Windsor is on the Weather page, hour by hour. Expect around 5 cm of snow in November. The month after, December, normally sees 3°C afternoons and −3°C nights. Precipitation in November averages 71 mm.

Council seats in Windsor are spread thin, 24,510 residents each, more than in 97% of Ontario municipalities

Provincially, East Windsor votes in Windsor—Tecumseh; the open record doesn’t name its MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, so the legislature’s own list is linked below.

Seminole Community Library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Windsor’s: Seminole Community Library serves all 234,219 people of the city, East Windsor among them.

East Windsor is 50 km from Point Pelee National Park

0.1% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). For a provincial park, Ojibway Prairie Provincial Park lies 7.6 km off. Within 5 km is one beach, Sandpoint Beach.

East Windsor keeps its older homes: 58% from before 1961