Do these figures describe a specific address in B1J?

No. B1J 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. Conditions on one street can differ from the area average.

Why is the crime figure for Nova Scotia rather than for B1J?

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 B1J means Nova Scotia. 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 B1J?

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.

B1J

Nova Scotia

B1J had a population of 1,148 in the 2021 Census in Cape Breton. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 893 private dwellings across 282 km².

Median household income was 14% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 16% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 47% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 97% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 21% higher than the national figure.

Average household size was 17% lower than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area B1J covering 282 km², in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

1,148

Nova Scotia · mostly Cape Breton

Counts for B1J, 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 dwellings	893
Owner households	500
Renter households	55
Immigrants	20
Land area	282 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for B1J, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	B1J	Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	Canada
Median household income	$72,000	$62,000	$71,500	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$61,600	$55,600	$62,400	$73,000
Median age	61.2	49.2	45.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	20.3%	19.7%	12.7%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	13.4%	18.3%	14.9%	11.1%
Average household size	2	2.2	2.2	2.4

Median household income in B1J is 14% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in B1J is 16% lower than the national figure.
Median age in B1J is 47% higher than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in B1J is 97% higher than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in B1J is 21% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in B1J is 17% lower than the national figure.

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

70 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of B1J’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.
Amenity	Within	B1J	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	0%	70%	70 points lower than Canada	100% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	0%	66%	66 points lower than Canada	100% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	45%	80%	36 points lower than Canada	94% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	0%	45%	45 points lower than Canada	100% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	11%	86%	74 points lower than Canada	99% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	0%	71%	71 points lower than Canada	100% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	0%	60%	60 points lower than Canada	100% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	0%	28%	28 points lower than Canada	100% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	66%	92%	26 points lower than Canada	99% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	100% below it

0% of B1J’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.

These measure how close an amenity is, never its quality. A school 500 m away is a school 500 m away — nothing here says anything about the school itself.
The proximity index is scaled against all of Canada, where 1 is the single most well-served block in the country and the national average is close to zero. It is useful for comparing places and misleading as a score.

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 Health Index at Sydney

1.44

Low risk · 1:00 PM ADT Thursday 13 August 2026

The Air Quality Health Index combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale. It is a reading at a station, not a measurement of any address.
Station	Sydney
Distance from B1J	27 km
Reading	1.44 — Low risk
Highest forecast	2

Measured at Sydney, 27 km from B1J. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Health Index. Data current as of 1:00 PM ADT Thursday 13 August 2026. Open Government Licence – Canada. This is the only live figure on this page; everything else is annual or from the census.

No facility within 10 km of B1J reported a release to the National Pollutant Release Inventory. That means nothing was reported above the reporting threshold — it is not a measurement of the air here, and it is not a clean bill of health.

The inventory is threshold-based: a facility reports only when it exceeds a quantity for a listed substance. Smaller emitters, road traffic, home heating and agriculture are not in it.
Quantities are reported by the facilities themselves and are estimates, not measurements at the fence line. Being close to a facility is not the same as being exposed to what it reports.

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

These figures describe the whole of Nova Scotia — a province or territory — not B1J. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

73.0

Nova Scotia · about the same as the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Nova Scotia, 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.
Measure	Nova Scotia	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	73.0	75.0	about the same as Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	89.8	97.2	8% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	66.9	66.8	about the same as Canada
Weighted clearance rate	32.6%	36.6%	4.1 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.
Violations	Nova Scotia	Canada	Compared
All violations	6,702 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	11% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	6,147 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	10% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,562 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	8% higher than Canada
Property crime	3,565 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	14% higher than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Nova Scotia (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 73.0 against 79.5. 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.
Year	Nova Scotia	Canada
2011	79.5	77.6
2012	76.9	75.5
2013	70.1	68.9
2014	66.8	66.9
2015	63.3	70.4
2016	62.3	72.0
2017	66.1	73.6
2018	65.3	75.6
2019	66.0	79.7
2020	71.6	73.9
2021	71.6	74.9
2022	74.9	78.7
2023	74.7	81.3
2024	75.5	78.8
2025	73.0	75.0

B1J is not inside a metropolitan area that publishes crime figures, so the comparison is against Nova Scotia as a whole.
The Crime Severity Index weights offences by seriousness and is set so that Canada in 2006 = 100. A rate per 100,000 counts incidents without weighting them. The two are not interchangeable and should not be compared to each other.

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.

Do these figures describe a specific address in B1J?: No. B1J 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. Conditions on one street can differ from the area average.
Why is the crime figure for Nova Scotia rather than for B1J?: 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 B1J means Nova Scotia. 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 B1J?: 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.

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.

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.