How does your neighbourhood rank? New site lets you compare
Toronto has launched a unique website that could change how residents decide where to live, how charities decide where to operate, and how politicians decide where to spend taxpayers` money.
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Wellbeing Toronto website provides easy access to a treasure trove of neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood data that is currently inaccessible or accessible only with difficulty. It includes an unprecedented gizmo that allows users to rank the city`s 140 official neighbourhoods by dozens of criteria related to crime, safety, the economy, health, education, housing, the environment, demographics and civic participation.
Users can compare, for example, the number of welfare recipients in Davenport and Mimico, the number of car crashes in Morningside and Victoria Village, the amount of tree cover in Parkdale and West Hill, the high school dropout rates in Mount Dennis and Agincourt, and the number of Italians in Downsview and Wexford.
They can also assign different levels of importance to several criteria at once ` say, most important to the dropout rate, moderately important to the number of Italians, and least important to the number of crashes. The website will then spit out a custom neighbourhood rankings list.
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