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Measured against local pay, South Cameron costs more to live in than 78% of Canadian towns

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

18% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, lower than Ontario’s towns (22%) and near Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 19% of the median household income, below both Ontario’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Summer runs warm in South Cameron: July highs of 28.3°C, above Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

January is the snowiest month, with 43 cm on average. The thermometer drops below freezing on 115 days a year, below both Ontario’s towns (139) and Canadian towns (159). Expect January lows of around −7.1°C in South Cameron. The frost-free season runs from 17 April to 1 November, 197 days.

52% of adults around South Cameron rate their health very good or excellent

The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average 18% of adults, above both Ontario’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (17%). Across the region, life runs to 81.3 years on average: women 83.5, men 79.2, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.9 km from the average resident of South Cameron, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. South Cameron doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.

South Cameron is graded a C+ for safety

The index for the force that serves it came to 79, above Ontario’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67) alike. Its police area records 39.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Hazards in South Cameron: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 14% of tested homes

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

Seismic risk in South Cameron sits near the middle: $0.019 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Burn scars are few around South Cameron, with 0.2% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.008% a year). Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town.

South Cameron’s schools belong to 4 boards that cover the same streets

The largest is Vincent Massey Secondary School, with 1,750 students. On the tests, 12 of 36 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 15 under it. In French: 7 of the 41 schools, where in Ontario the share is 10%. Counting a 3 km margin, South Cameron has 31 elementary schools, 7 secondary schools and 3 alternative or adult schools, for 20,545 students.

Visible minorities make up more of South Cameron than of Ontario’s towns or Canadian towns: 67%

1.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity, below Ontario’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (2.8%) alike.

In South Cameron, November normally means 9°C afternoons and 1°C nights

The year peaks in July (28°C) and bottoms out in January (−7°C). November usually brings some 5 cm of snow. Next comes December, with normal highs of 3°C and lows of −4°C. A normal November brings 73 mm of rain and snow.

24,510 residents per council seat in Windsor, a higher ratio than 97% of Ontario municipalities

For federal votes, South Cameron belongs to Windsor West, its riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP); Harb Gill (Conservative Party of Canada) holds it.

Fewer visits per person served than four in five Ontario’s town libraries: Windsor public library counts 2.1

South Cameron is served by Windsor public library, the library of all of Windsor, so the figures here are the city’s, for 234,219 people.

Commuters in South Cameron have a short way to work, 19 min on average, less than in Ontario’s towns and Canadian towns

Point Pelee National Park lies 52 km beyond South Cameron’s edge

0.2% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). The closest provincial park is Ojibway Prairie Provincial Park, 1.7 km from the edge of town. One unnamed beach is mapped within 5 km.