Living in Hanwell

In Hanwell, unemployment is 7.2% (2021).

Hanwell's population was 5,293 at the end of 2022. The unemployment rate was 7.17% at the end of 2021. The foreign population count was 260 at the end of 2021.

Last checked 2026-10-0721 sources

Population5,293people31 Dec 2022Official source · Statistics Canada

Median gross salary3,758EUR/month31 Dec 2020Official source · Statistics Canada

Average rent1,046EUR/month30 Jun 2026Regional figureOfficial source · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, average asking rents

Unemployment rate7.17%country median 8.4% — 15% belowOfficial source · Statistics Canada

Recorded crime5,734incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Metro-area figureOfficial source · Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025

PM2.5, annual mean4.06µg/m³31 Dec 2024Official source · data-donnees.az.ec.gc.ca

Which Canada-wide rules apply when you move to Hanwell?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

The share of renter households spending 30% or more on housing reached 6.4% at the end of 2021.

No city-level rent figure is published for Hanwell. The available city-level cost figures remain below.

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€50

Mobile plan, 10 GB€24

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	49.79 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Bell Fibe 500 home internet¹Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	24.27 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Public Mobile 50GB plan⁸Official · national market
Households spending over 30% of income on rent	6.4 %	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹²Official
Dwellings	1,887 dwellings	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹⁰Official
Main residence dwellings	1,799 dwellings	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹³Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	1,046 EUR/month	30 Jun 2026	Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, average asking rents²Official · regional context

Is Hanwell a good place to live?

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Remote worker61%strong on work, weak on safety · range 51–71%

Skilled employee64%strong on work, weak on education · range 55–73%

Student46%strong on cost, weak on education · range 35–57%

Family56%strong on family, weak on education · range 45–67%

Retirement43%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 30–56%

Work and income

What is the typical salary in Hanwell?

The median gross salary is about 3,758 EUR/month (2020). The regional series (home-region basis, 2020) is a separate labelled row in the table.

City-scope median, gross, before tax and social contributions.

Median gross salary: 3,758 EUR/month · Statistics Canada¹⁴
Median gross salary (regional): 3,028 EUR/month · 2026-09-17 · www150.statcan.gc.ca¹⁸

What is the unemployment rate in Hanwell?

The unemployment rate is about 7.2 % (2021).

Unemployment rate: 7.17 % · Statistics Canada¹⁵

Unemployment across cities in CanadaUnemployment in Hanwell is 7.2%. Of 515 cities with data, 125 have unemployment of 6 to under 8%.

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Hanwell 7.2%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Employment rate	63.2 %	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹³Official
Median gross salary	3,758 EUR/month	31 Dec 2020	Statistics Canada¹⁴Official
Median gross salary (regional)	3,028 EUR/month	31 Dec 2020	www150.statcan.gc.ca¹⁸Official
Unemployment rate	7.17 %country median 8.4%	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹⁵Official

What does a salary buy in Hanwell?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€1,736of €2,856 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	€2,856
Rentaverage rent of a whole dwelling · official · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, average asking rents · 2026-06-30	− €1,046
Internet€50 · official · Bell Fibe 500 home internet · 2026-09-30	− €50
Mobile plan€24 · official · Public Mobile 50GB plan · 2026-09-30	− €24
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€1,736

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Hanwell Salary needed to live in Hanwell

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Hanwell. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Job Bank and public employment services — Public employment service

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Hanwell. Sources checked through 12 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Hanwell?

Police recorded 5,734 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025⁷

Recorded crime across major citiesHanwell highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Winnipeg7,894

Edmonton7,108

Halifax6,020

Vancouver5,438

Calgary4,796

London4,743

Québec4,630

Ottawa4,298

Hamilton4,257

Toronto4,177

Gatineau3,756

Montreal3,674

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	5,734 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2025⁷Official · metropolitan-area figure

Mobility and administration

Hanwell's nearest airport was YFC, 19 km away and offered 4 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	4 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁵Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	19 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁶Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	YFC	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁶Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Hanwell. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

IRCC newcomer language-learning services finder — State Language Course

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Hanwell?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 4.1 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline.

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

PM2.5 — annual mean: 4.06 µg/m³ · data-donnees.az.ec.gc.ca³

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.54.1WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in CanadaAnnual PM2.5 in Hanwell is 4.1 µg/m³. Of 123 cities with data, 46 have annual PM2.5 of 3 to under 4 µg/m³.

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Hanwell 4.1

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	4.06 µg/m³	31 Dec 2024	data-donnees.az.ec.gc.ca³Official source, approximated value · Supplemental context
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 12.61 · Feb 11.73 · Mar 21.97 · Apr 24.01 · May 28.45 · Jun 31.73 · Jul 31.46 · Aug 31.62 · Sep 30.54 · Oct 24.96 · Nov 18.31 · Dec 14.51 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁴Official · coordinate grid
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -33.86 · Feb -31.61 · Mar -27.7 · Apr -15.69 · May -3.21 · Jun 0.85 · Jul 7.38 · Aug 5.33 · Sep -0.94 · Oct -6 · Nov -15.13 · Dec -28.21 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁴Official · coordinate grid
Average temperature by month	Jan -9.83 · Feb -8.73 · Mar -3.53 · Apr 3.7 · May 10.22 · Jun 15.32 · Jul 18.87 · Aug 18.13 · Sep 14.07 · Oct 7.52 · Nov 1.02 · Dec -5.57 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁴Official · coordinate grid

Population and city profile

The city covered 152.1 km² at the end of 2021. The city had 1,800 households at the end of 2021. The median age was 44 years at the end of 2021.

How many people live in Hanwell?

The published population was 5,293 people in 2022. Source: Statistics Canada¹¹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport95.1%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Area	152.1 km²	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹³Official
City area	152.1 km²	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹⁶Official
Foreign-resident share	5.51 %	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada⁹Official
Foreign residents	260 people	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada⁹Official
Population density	31.2 people/km²	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹⁶Official
Population	5,293 people	31 Dec 2022	Statistics Canada¹¹Official

Population over time22 published observations, 2001–2022

4,092

4,522

4,952

5,382

5,29320012005200920152022

Population rose 26.6% between 2001 and 2022, from 4,181 to 5,293.

International community in Hanwell

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Total - Place of birth for the immigrant population in private households - 25% sample data · 2021 Census

Published group	People	Share
Total - Place of birth for the immigrant population in private households - 25% sample data	260	100.0%
Europe	130	50.0%
Asia	65	25.0%
Americas	60	23.1%
United Kingdom	50	19.2%
United States of America	40	15.4%
Other places of birth in Europe	30	11.5%
China	20	7.7%
Sri Lanka	20	7.7%
Netherlands	15	5.8%
Other places of birth in Asia	15	5.8%

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Published group	People	Share
Other places of birth in Americas	10	3.8%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Citizenship

Total - Citizenship for the population in private households - 25% sample data · 2021 Census

Published group	People	Share
Total - Citizenship for the population in private households - 25% sample data	4,715	100.0%
Canadian citizens	4,610	97.8%
Canadian citizens aged 18 and over	3,585	76.0%
Canadian citizens aged under 18	1,020	21.6%
Not Canadian citizens	105	2.2%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Language spoken at home

Total - Language spoken most often at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data · 2021 Census

Published group	People	Share
Total - Language spoken most often at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data	4,715	100.0%
Single responses	4,645	98.5%
Official languages	4,590	97.3%
English	4,270	90.6%
French	320	6.8%
Multiple responses	70	1.5%
Non-official languages	55	1.2%
Non-Indigenous languages	55	1.2%
English and French	50	1.1%
Indo-European languages	30	0.6%
Sino-Tibetan languages	20	0.4%

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Published group	People	Share
Chinese languages	20	0.4%
Mandarin	20	0.4%
English and non-official language(s)	20	0.4%
Balto-Slavic languages	20	0.4%
Slavic languages	15	0.3%
Austronesian languages	5	0.1%
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	5	0.1%
Russian	5	0.1%
Italic (Romance) languages	5	0.1%
Spanish	5	0.1%
Korean	5	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Residents born abroad	5.5 %	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹²Official
Households	1,800 households	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹³Official
Labour force participation rate	68.2 %	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹³Official
Median age	44 years	31 Dec 2021	Statistics Canada¹⁷Official

Alternatives for people set on Hanwell

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Oromocto as a Hanwell alternative in the same region

23 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Unemployment: 4.6% Oromocto vs 7.2% Hanwell−36%
Residents: 10,020 Oromocto vs 5,293 Hanwell+89%
Foreign residents: 3.5% Oromocto vs 5.5% Hanwell−36%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,200 Oromocto vs 5,734 Hanwellno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €3,181 Oromocto vs €3,028 Hanwell+5%
Annual PM2.5: 4.1 µg/m³ Oromocto vs 4.1 µg/m³ Hanwellsame level

Full comparison More about Oromocto

Aurora as a Hanwell alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 1019 km, better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Foreign residents: 36.8% Aurora vs 5.5% Hanwell+567%
Median gross pay, city: €4,357 Aurora vs €3,758 Hanwell+16%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,296 Aurora vs 5,734 Hanwellno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €3,094 Aurora vs €3,028 Hanwellsame level

Full comparison More about Aurora

Cities near Hanwell

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Canada

Other cities in Canada to compare with Hanwell, nearest in population first.

All Canada cities

Grand Falls5,313 residents Memramcook5,352 residents Montréal-Ouest5,368 residents Deer Lake5,374 residents Ayr5,383 residents Chisasibi5,399 residents

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Hanwell?

The published population was 5,293 people in 2022. Source: Statistics Canada.

Is the air quality good in Hanwell?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 4.1 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: data-donnees.az.ec.gc.ca.

How safe is Hanwell?

What is the typical salary in Hanwell?

The median gross salary is about 3,758 EUR/month (2020). The regional series (home-region basis, 2020) is a separate labelled row in the table. Source: Statistics Canada.

What is the unemployment rate in Hanwell?

The unemployment rate is about 7.2 % (2021). Source: Statistics Canada.

What is the typical salary around Hanwell?

The median gross salary is 3,028 EUR/month. Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca.

Is Hanwell a good place to live?

Hanwell may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Hanwell?

Sunbury-York South, Oromocto are near Hanwell. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Europe live in Hanwell?

The official country of birth distribution records 130 people (50.0%) in the source-defined population for 2021 Census. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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