Do these figures describe a specific address in B3L?

No. B3L 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 Halifax, Nova Scotia rather than for B3L?

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 B3L means Halifax, 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 B3L?

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.

B3L

Nova Scotia

B3L had a population of 18,409 in the 2021 Census in Halifax. Its population density makes it a built-up urban area.

There were 8,823 private dwellings across 4.4 km².

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

Median after-tax household income was 15% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 16% lower than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 34% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 41% higher than the national figure.

Average household size was 8% lower than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area B3L covering 4.4 km², in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

18,409

Nova Scotia · mostly Halifax

Counts for B3L, 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	8,823
Owner households	3,470
Renter households	4,985
Immigrants	2,520
Land area	4.4 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for B3L, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	B3L	Halifax	Nova Scotia	Canada
Median household income	$72,500	$81,000	$71,500	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$62,400	$69,500	$62,400	$73,000
Median age	34.8	40.4	45.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	13.8%	11.4%	12.7%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	15.7%	12%	14.9%	11.1%
Average household size	2.2	2.3	2.2	2.4

Median household income in B3L is 14% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in B3L is 15% lower than the national figure.
Median age in B3L is 16% lower than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in B3L is 34% higher than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in B3L is 41% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in B3L is 8% 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

99%

29 points higher than the national share of 70%

Share of B3L’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	B3L	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	99%	70%	29 points higher than Canada	1.7× the national index
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	100%	66%	34 points higher than Canada	3.3× the national index
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	100%	80%	20 points higher than Canada	2.1× the national index
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	78%	45%	33 points higher than Canada	1.6× the national index
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	100%	86%	14 points higher than Canada	30% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	95%	71%	24 points higher than Canada	1.2× the national index
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	98%	60%	39 points higher than Canada	1.9× the national index
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	15%	28%	13 points lower than Canada	82% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	2.8× the national index
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	1.4× the national index

15% of B3L’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.

Two different rents, and neither one is “the rent here”.

CMHC surveys what tenants are paying — including people who have not moved in years — and only in purpose-built rental buildings of three units or more, so it leaves out rented condos, which in the largest cities is most of the market. Statistics Canada measures what is being asked in current listings, across the whole market. If you are staying put the first is closer; if you are moving, the second is.

B3L spans 2 CMHC survey zones — Peninsula (North) (88%), Peninsula (South) (12%). The figures below are averaged across them, weighted by population.

Average rent paid in Halifax's survey zones covering B3L (CMHC, October 2025), against average asking rent across Halifax (Statistics Canada, January 2026). The two are measured differently and are not comparable line by line.
Unit	Being paid (CMHC)	Reliability	Being asked (StatCan)
Studio	$1,309	good (c)	$1,540
1 bedroom	$1,616	excellent (a)	$1,830
2 bedrooms	$1,829	excellent (a)	$2,350
3+ bedrooms	$2,297	use with caution (d)	$2,820

Reliability is CMHC’s own code for how much the sample supports the figure, from excellent to use with caution. Where several zones cover B3L, the weakest of their codes is shown.

Neither figure is "the rent" for this area. One is a survey of buildings, the other a survey of listings, and both describe areas larger than a postal code.

Source: Statistics Canada, table 46-10-0092 (asking rents, experimental). Data current as of January 2026. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Experimental estimates drawn from online listings, published for selected metropolitan areas only.

Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation of this product.

Air Quality Health Index at Halifax Downtown

2.01

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	Halifax Downtown
Distance from B3L	1.7 km
Reading	2.01 — Low risk
Highest forecast	2

Measured at Halifax Downtown, 1.7 km from B3L. 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.

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of B3L. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

28 facilities within 10 km of B3L reported to the inventory. The 12 that released the most to air are listed; the total below covers all of them.

The 12 largest reporters to air of the 28 within 10 km of B3L, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Tufts Cove Generating StationDartmouth · Electricity	2.2 km	12incl. dioxins/furans	4,940 t
Dartmouth TerminalDartmouth · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storage	4.3 km	10	802 t
30 Ilsley AveDartmouth · Plastics and Rubber	5.0 km	2	256 t
Halifax Harbour TerminalDartmouth · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storage	3.7 km	5	72 t
Burnside Combustion TurbinesDartmouth · Electricity	5.7 km	1	69 t
HALIFAX SHIPYARDHalifax · Other (Except Manufacturing)	1.5 km	4	52 t
Victoria General Hospital Central Heating PlantHalifax · Other (Except Manufacturing)	1.3 km	2	32 t
Camp Hill Site Central Heating PlantHalifax · Other (Except Manufacturing)	0.5 km	4	19 t
MARINE FABRICATORSDartmouth · Transportation Equipment Mfg.	3.9 km	3	14 t
Nova Scotia Hospital Central Heating PlantDartmouth · Other (Except Manufacturing)	3.5 km	3	13 t
Dartmouth Dock SiteDartmouth · Mining and Quarrying	3.3 km	3	6 t
P & H Milling Group - HalifaxHalifax · Other Manufacturing	2.5 km	2	5 t

All 28 facilities within 10 km — including the 16 not listed above — together reported 6,285 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.

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.
Dioxins and furans are reported in grams of toxic equivalent, a toxicity-weighted figure that cannot be added to a tonnage. Facilities reporting them are marked, and those grams are left out of every tonnage here — the rest of what those facilities released is counted.

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

These figures describe the whole of Halifax, Nova Scotia — a metropolitan area — not B3L. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

68.6

Halifax, Nova Scotia · 9% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Halifax, 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	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	68.6	75.0	9% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	89.4	97.2	8% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	60.9	66.8	9% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	31.6%	36.6%	5.1 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	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canada	Compared
All violations	6,416 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	6% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	6,094 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	9% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,367 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	5% lower than Canada
Property crime	3,876 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	23% higher than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Halifax, Nova Scotia (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 68.6 against 88.6. 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	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canada
2011	88.6	77.6
2012	76.0	75.5
2013	69.0	68.9
2014	66.8	66.9
2015	65.1	70.4
2016	63.3	72.0
2017	66.0	73.6
2018	67.6	75.6
2019	61.0	79.7
2020	62.3	73.9
2021	66.9	74.9
2022	73.1	78.7
2023	71.8	81.3
2024	73.3	78.8
2025	68.6	75.0

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 B3L?: No. B3L 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 Halifax, Nova Scotia rather than for B3L?: 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 B3L means Halifax, 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 B3L?: 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.