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A0C

Newfoundland and Labrador — a rural forward sortation area

In plain English

A0C had a population of 11,972 in the 2021 Census in Newfoundland and Labrador, outside any census metropolitan area. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 8,069 private dwellings across 2,733 km².

Median household income was 34% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 30% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 36% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 2.2× higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 93% higher than the national figure.

Average household size was 12% lower than the national figure.

This is a rural forward sortation area, which can cover a very large territory — figures describe the whole of it, not one community within it.

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area A0C covering 2,733 km², in Newfoundland and Labrador. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

A0C · NL
Population, 2021

11,972

Newfoundland and Labrador · not part of a census metropolitan area

Counts for A0C, 2021 Census. These describe this area and are deliberately not compared to a city or a country — a count of households is not comparable to a national total.
Private dwellings8,069
Owner households4,885
Renter households760
Immigrants145
Land area2,733 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for A0C, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureA0CNewfoundland and LabradorCanada
Median household income$55,200$71,500$84,000
Median after-tax income$50,800$63,200$73,000
Median age56.448.441.6
Unemployment rate23.1%15.2%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)21.4%15.2%11.1%
Average household size2.12.32.4
Note:

No city comparison. A0C is not inside a census metropolitan area or agglomeration, so there is no city to compare it against. Statistics Canada classifies the surrounding area by how strongly it is influenced by a metropolitan centre, which is not a place and is not a useful benchmark. Province and Canada are.

Getting around

2021 reference year · dissemination-block level
What this measures:

How close everyday amenities are — not how good they are. Each figure is the share of this area’s residents who have that amenity within the distance shown, weighted by where people actually live.

Residents with a grocery store within a 1 km walk

27%

43 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of A0C’s residents with each amenity within reach. The proximity index in the last column is scaled against all of Canada, where the national average is close to zero — read it against Canada, never on its own.
AmenityWithinA0CCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk27%70%43 points lower than Canada89% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.1 km walk0%66%66 points lower than Canada100% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.1 km walk23%80%57 points lower than Canada93% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk8%45%37 points lower than Canada91% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk25%86%60 points lower than Canada97% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk0%71%71 points lower than Canada100% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk0%60%60 points lower than Canada100% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk24%28%4 points lower than Canada36% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive37%92%55 points lower than Canada98% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive88%98%10 points lower than Canada99% below it

0% of A0C’s residents live in a block Statistics Canada classifies as an amenity-dense neighbourhood — one with a grocery store, pharmacy, health care, child care, a primary school, a library, a transit stop and a source of employment all in range. Nationally it is 16%. This is StatCan’s composite, not ours.

Source: Statistics Canada, Proximity Measures Database (17-26-0002), 2021 reference year. Data current as of 2026-08-12. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Measured at the dissemination block and aggregated to this postal area, weighted by population.

Air quality

nearest station
No local reading:

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is St. John's, 117 km from A0C. That is far enough to be a different airshed, so its reading is not shown here as though it described this area. The index is published for about 130 communities and zones, not continuously across Canada.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Health Index. Data current as of live feed. Open Government Licence – Canada. This is the only live figure on this page; everything else is annual or from the census.

Reporting facilities nearby

2024 · within 10 km
What this is:

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of A0C. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

Reported releases to air, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Sexton Lumber Co limitedBloomfield · Wood Productsinside this area17108 t
Charlottetown Diesel Generating StationCharlottetown · Electricityinside this area373 t
MARWOOD JAMESTOWNJamestown · Wood Productsinside this area0not reported

Together these facilities reported 181 t released to air in 2024. That is what was reported within 10 km — not what reached this area, which depends on stack height, wind and chemistry that this inventory does not model.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Pollutant Release Inventory. Data current as of 2024 reporting year. Open Government Licence – Canada.

Crime

2025 · provincial figures
Read this first:

These figures describe the whole of Newfoundland and Labrador — a province or territory — not A0C. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

88.7

Newfoundland and Labrador · 18% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Newfoundland and Labrador, 2025. The Crime Severity Index weights each offence by how serious the courts treat it, so it is an index and not a count — 100 is Canada in 2006.
MeasureNewfoundland and LabradorCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index88.775.018% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index100.297.23% higher than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index84.966.827% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate28.7%36.6%7.9 percentage points lower than Canada
Reported incidents per 100,000 residents, 2025. These count incidents without weighting them by seriousness, so they are not comparable with the indexes above.
ViolationsNewfoundland and LabradorCanadaCompared
All violations7,966 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00031% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic7,222 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00029% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,838 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00027% higher than Canada
Property crime3,768 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00020% higher than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Newfoundland and Labrador (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was higher than in 2011 — 88.7 against 71.8. A change in the index can come from a change in the number of offences, in how serious they were, or in how many were reported to police.
Year-by-year figures
Crime Severity Index by year. This table is the chart above, in full.
YearNewfoundland and LabradorCanada
201171.877.6
201268.075.5
201368.568.9
201462.466.9
201565.870.4
201669.572.0
201763.373.6
201864.575.6
201971.379.7
202068.873.9
202176.974.9
202282.178.7
202387.881.3
202492.178.8
202588.775.0

Source: Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026 (crime severity index); table 35-10-0177 (incident-based crime statistics). Data current as of 2025 reference year. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Police-reported crime only — offences that are not reported to police are not counted anywhere in these figures.

Common questions

Do these figures describe a specific address in A0C?
No. A0C is a forward sortation area — the first three characters of a postal code — and every figure here describes the whole of it. That is the finest granularity Canadian open data supports; a full six-character postal code requires a licensed Canada Post file. This is a rural forward sortation area, which can cover a very large territory, so the gap between the area and any one community inside it is especially wide.
Why is the crime figure for Newfoundland and Labrador rather than for A0C?
Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada. Statistics Canada publishes it by police service, aggregated to metropolitan areas and provinces, which for A0C means Newfoundland and Labrador. There is no municipal feed covering this area, so the regional figure is the finest available.
How current is this profile?
The census figures are from the 2021 Census. The other panels carry their own dates, shown beside each one, because they are published on different schedules — crime annually, CMHC rents each October, asking rents quarterly, and the air quality index live. Each figure is labelled with the vintage it came from rather than the date you are reading it.
Does this page rank or score A0C?
No. There is no score, no grade, no star rating and no ranking against other areas. Every figure is a measurement with a source, a date and a stated granularity, and none of them are combined. The site describes places using published statistics; it does not draw conclusions about the people who live in them.

What this page will not do

Note:

No score, no ranking, no grade. This page will not score this neighbourhood, rank it against another, or present the people who live here as a feature of the place. Every figure above is a measurement with a source, a date and a stated granularity, and none of them are added together.

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Source: Census Profile, 2021 Census (98-401-X). Data current as of 2026-08-12. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Figures describe the whole forward sortation area, not a street.