Is Thunder Bay a good place to live?
YesYes — Thunder Bay works well for highly-educated households.
How Thunder Bay stacks up vs Ontario
Bars show the percentile rank of each axis among Ontario's 20,000+ census Dissemination Areas. The vertical mark is the Ontario median (p50).
Why Thunder Bay works
- 14.6% of households spend 30%+ on housing — more affordable than Ontario's ~27% average.
- 22.5% of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher — meaningfully above Ontario's ~20% average.
Honest tradeoffs
- Median family income of $87,000 — roughly $9,000 below the Ontario DA median.
5 neighbourhoods to look at in Thunder Bay
- Red River — $150,000 residents · 40.4 income · age 42.5%
- Oliver & Balmoral — $128,000 residents · 37.6 income · age 37.4%
- Valley & Pioneer — $113,000 residents · 43.6 income · age 33.0%
- Hilldale & Wardrope — $107,000 residents · 48.8 income · age 24.3%
- Arundel & Hudson — $85,000 residents · 67.0 income · age 27.2%
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