See the area before you move

Enter a Canadian postal code and see what the official statistics say about that area — who lives there, what housing costs, how the air is, what is nearby — each figure set against the city, the province and Canada.

Every number on this site comes from a published government source and carries the date it was published. Nothing is modelled, estimated or scored.

Census profile — population, age, income, housing, tenure, immigration, language and education, benchmarked against the surrounding city, the province and Canada.
Crime — the Crime Severity Index and crime rate for the city or metropolitan area, against the national figure. Neighbourhood-level detail only where a municipal police service publishes it.
Air and pollution — the current Air Quality Health Index and the distance to the station reporting it, plus facilities reporting to the National Pollutant Release Inventory nearby.
Amenities and rent — proximity to groceries, health care, schools, parks and transit, and what rent costs, with the caveat that the two published rent measures answer different questions.

Areas here are forward sortation areas — the first three characters of a postal code, 1,653 of them covering Canada. An urban FSA is a few square kilometres; a rural one can be very large.

Finer precision exists, and it is not open. The file linking a full six-character postal code to a census area contains Canada Post data and is licensed, so a free service built only on open data stops at three characters. We would rather tell you that than imply a precision we do not have.

Crime is city-level, nationally. Statistics Canada publishes police-reported crime by police service and metropolitan area, not by neighbourhood. Where a city police service publishes its own neighbourhood data we show it and say so. Everywhere else, the figure describes the city.

Source: GeoNames postal index — 1,653 forward sortation areas. Data current as of 2026-08-12. GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Place names and the FSA list only — census, crime, air and rent arrive with 0002 onward.