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E5M

New Brunswick

In plain English

E5M had a population of 2,170 in the 2021 Census in New Brunswick. No census metropolitan area covers most of it. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 1,079 private dwellings across 611 km².

Median household income was 21% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 19% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 33% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was about the same as the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 47% higher than the national figure.

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

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area E5M covering 611 km², in New Brunswick. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

E5M · NB
Population, 2021

2,170

New Brunswick · no metropolitan area covers most of this postal area

Counts for E5M, 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 dwellings1,079
Owner households885
Renter households95
Immigrants140
Land area611 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for E5M, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureE5MNew BrunswickCanada
Median household income$66,000$70,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$59,200$62,000$73,000
Median age55.246.841.6
Unemployment rate10.7%10.3%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)16.3%14.2%11.1%
Average household size2.22.32.4
Note:

No city comparison. E5M does touch the Saint John census metropolitan area, but only 45% of its residents live inside it. Comparing the whole area against Saint John would describe somewhere most of it is not, so the comparison is left out rather than shown faintly. Province and Canada cover all of it.

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

21%

49 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of E5M’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.
AmenityWithinE5MCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk21%70%49 points lower than Canada94% 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 walk40%80%40 points lower than Canada91% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk0%45%45 points lower than Canada100% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk9%86%76 points lower than Canada99% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk28%71%44 points lower than Canada94% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk28%60%32 points lower than Canada93% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk0%28%28 points lower than Canada100% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive76%92%16 points lower than Canada100% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive100%98%about the same as Canada100% below it

0% of E5M’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.

Rent

metropolitan-area level
Average asking rent across Saint John, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
UnitBeing asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom$1,220
Apartment, 2 bedrooms$1,500
Apartment, 3 or more bedrooms$1,700
Apartment, No bedroomnot published
House, 2 bedroomsnot published
House, 3 or more bedroomsnot published
Room$640
Coverage:

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. E5M is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Saint John area.

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.

Air quality

live · nearest station
Air Quality Health Index at Saint John

2

Low risk · 12:00 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.
StationSaint John
Distance from E5M44 km
Reading2Low risk
Highest forecast2

Measured at Saint John, 44 km from E5M. 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 12:00 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.

Reporting facilities nearby

within 10 km
Nothing reported:

No facility within 10 km of E5M 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.

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

Crime

2025 · metropolitan-area figures
Read this first:

These figures describe the whole of Saint John, New Brunswick — a metropolitan area — not E5M. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Only 45% of E5M's residents live inside Saint John, New Brunswick. The rest are policed by different services, which report their own figures — so this is not a figure for most of this area.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

70.0

Saint John, New Brunswick · 7% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Saint John, New Brunswick, 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.
MeasureSaint John, New BrunswickCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index70.075.07% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index101.297.24% higher than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index58.166.813% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate35.4%36.6%1.3 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.
ViolationsSaint John, New BrunswickCanadaCompared
All violations4,949 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00018% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic4,556 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00018% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,244 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00014% lower than Canada
Property crime2,546 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00019% lower than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Saint John, New Brunswick (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was about the same as in 2011 — 70.0 against 69.1. 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.
YearSaint John, New BrunswickCanada
201169.177.6
201266.875.5
201360.868.9
201455.566.9
201555.770.4
201654.972.0
201756.673.6
201856.975.6
201956.879.7
202051.973.9
202150.074.9
202252.278.7
202353.381.3
202458.278.8
202570.075.0

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 E5M?
No. E5M 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 Saint John, New Brunswick rather than for E5M?
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 E5M means Saint John, New Brunswick. 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 E5M?
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.