Mile EndMontréal

Measured against local pay, Mile End costs more to live in than 97% of Canadian towns

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 31% of households, above Quebec’s towns (13%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. The median home value was $645,000, above Quebec’s towns ($300,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000) alike. For rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, the only official count covers all of the Montréal metro area, Mile End included.

Mile End scores better for health than nine in ten Canadian towns

Chronic conditions run at 14% of adults, age-standardised, below Quebec’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (17%) alike. Across the region, 54% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Quebec as a whole reaches 57%. People in the region live to 83.4 on average: 85.5 for women and 81.2 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Mile End is well placed: 1.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Nobody publishes health survey and life expectancy for Mile End alone, so this card uses the figure for the Région de Montréal.

Households in Mile End earn less than those in 72% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work takes 27 min.

Wildfire low, radon 6.8%: how Mile End stands on hazards

Area-wide: earthquake risk, counted over the city of Montréal

Seismic risk runs high: $0.20 of expected damage per $1,000 of buildings a year, the typical town $0.030. Little of the land around Mile End has burned: 0.1% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.002% a year. The national flood inventory has no study of the town. Mile End doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the Montreal health region.

For the force that serves Mile End, the Crime Severity Index is 80, above Quebec’s towns and Canadian towns

The violent index for its police area came to 116, above Quebec’s towns (88) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Its police area records 15.4 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across its police area, there are 29.1 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.

Afternoon heat in Mile End beats that of 78% of Canadian towns

A normal October brings 103 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Some 217 cm of snow falls in a typical year, near Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and higher than Canadian towns (141 cm). Most of the snow comes in January, about 52 cm. Between the last spring frost, 29 April, and the first in autumn, 14 October, lie 167 days.

More people in Mile End speak English and French than in Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns: 70%

Under-15s account for 14% of the population. 12% of residents are 65 or over, below both Quebec’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (19%).

In Mile End, November normally means 6°C afternoons and −2°C nights

For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Montréal forecast. Then December: −1°C by day, −9°C at night. Snow is normal by November, about 16 cm over the month. November normally sees 84 mm of precipitation.

At 6.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler is busier than four in five Quebec’s town libraries

Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Mile End among them.

Îles-de-Boucherville National Park (Québec) is 10 km from Mile End

There is no national park within 100 km of the town. For a swim, Plage de l'Horloge is the beach within 5 km. The largest is Bassin de la Prairie (Grand Herbier) Water Fowl Gathering Area: 903 ha, 8.9 km from the edge of town.

Mile End has 44 independent schools among its 139

Its schools answer to 3 boards. Of the 139, 28 teach in English (10% of schools in Quebec). In or within 3 km of Mile End: 88 elementary schools, 37 secondary schools and 14 schools for every grade.

Before 1961: 58% of the homes in Mile End

The record has a municipal citation. Carmel de Montréal, begun in 1895, is the oldest by its record. The registers put 4 historic places inside its boundary, 3 of them of the highest rank.