Do these figures describe a specific address in H2B?

No. H2B 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 Montréal, Quebec rather than for H2B?

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 H2B means Montréal, Quebec. 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 H2B?

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.

H2B

Quebec

H2B had a population of 18,049 in the 2021 Census in Montréal. Its population density makes it a densely built urban area.

There were 9,341 private dwellings across 2.6 km².

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

Median after-tax household income was 29% lower than the national figure.

The median age was about the same as the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 16% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 56% higher than the national figure.

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

The boundary of forward sortation area H2B covering 2.6 km², in Montréal, Quebec. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

18,049

Quebec · mostly Montréal

Counts for H2B, 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	9,341
Owner households	2,860
Renter households	5,855
Immigrants	6,355
Land area	2.6 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for H2B, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	H2B	Montréal	Quebec	Canada
Median household income	$58,400	$76,000	$72,500	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$51,600	$65,500	$63,200	$73,000
Median age	41.6	40.8	43.2	41.6
Unemployment rate	8.7%	8.4%	7.6%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	17.3%	12%	11.9%	11.1%
Average household size	2	2.3	2.2	2.4

Median household income in H2B is 30% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in H2B is 29% lower than the national figure.
Median age in H2B is about the same as the national figure.
Unemployment rate in H2B is 16% lower than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in H2B is 56% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in H2B 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

100%

30 points higher than the national share of 70%

Share of H2B’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	H2B	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	100%	70%	30 points higher than Canada	2.1× the national index
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	100%	66%	34 points higher than Canada	2.0× the national index
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	100%	80%	20 points higher than Canada	1.8× the national index
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	91%	45%	47 points higher than Canada	1.7× the national index
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	100%	86%	14 points higher than Canada	3.3× the national index
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	99%	71%	28 points higher than Canada	1.6× the national index
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	88%	60%	29 points higher than Canada	1.0× the national index
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	24%	28%	4 points lower than Canada	64% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	1.6× the national index
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	2.6× the national index

23% of H2B’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.

H2B sits inside one CMHC survey zone, Ahuntsic/Cartierville.

Average rent paid in Montréal's survey zones covering H2B (CMHC, October 2025), against average asking rent across Montréal (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	$768	very good (b)	$1,270
1 bedroom	$933	very good (b)	$1,530
2 bedrooms	$1,262	very good (b)	$1,900
3+ bedrooms	$1,473	use with caution (d)	$2,390

Reliability is CMHC’s own code for how much the sample supports the figure, from excellent to use with caution. Where several zones cover H2B, 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.

Montréal, 6.3 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change 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.

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of H2B. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

67 facilities within 10 km of H2B 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 67 within 10 km of H2B, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Haleon MontréalMontréal · Chemicals	6.5 km	5	684 t
ProAmpacLaval · Plastics and Rubber	6.1 km	1	237 t
Canada Bread - Usine LavalLaval · Other Manufacturing	6.4 km	3	225 t
Laval PlantLaval · Plastics and Rubber	3.9 km	1	148 t
METRA ALUMINIUM INC.Laval · Aluminum	4.6 km	4	142 t
Lantic Inc. - Raffinerie MontréalMontréal · Other Manufacturing	8.7 km	4	136 t
Complexe environnemental St-MichelMontréal · Waste Treatment and Disposal	2.4 km	4	111 t
Montreal Plant (024)Montréal · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals	9.9 km	6	104 t
Usine St-LaurentSaint-Laurent · Transportation Equipment Mfg.	6.8 km	6	98 t
Station d'épuration La PinièreLaval · Water and Wastewater Systems	5.1 km	8	87 t
Carrière Montréal-EstMontréal-Est · Mining and Quarrying	9.3 km	3	81 t
Canada Bread - Usine ViauMontreal · Other Manufacturing	6.7 km	1	69 t

All 67 facilities within 10 km — including the 55 not listed above — together reported 2,700 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.

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 Montréal, Quebec — a metropolitan area — not H2B. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

61.3

Montréal, Quebec · 18% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Montréal, Quebec, 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	Montréal, Quebec	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	61.3	75.0	18% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	92.0	97.2	5% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	49.5	66.8	26% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	40.1%	36.6%	3.5 percentage points higher 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	Montréal, Quebec	Canada	Compared
All violations	4,148 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	32% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	3,641 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	35% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,277 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	12% lower than Canada
Property crime	1,982 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	37% lower than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Montréal, Quebec (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 61.3 against 79.8. 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.
Year	Montréal, Quebec	Canada
2011	79.8	77.6
2012	75.1	75.5
2013	66.6	68.9
2014	60.9	66.9
2015	61.5	70.4
2016	58.7	72.0
2017	59.1	73.6
2018	58.3	75.6
2019	57.9	79.7
2020	53.0	73.9
2021	59.3	74.9
2022	61.9	78.7
2023	64.1	81.3
2024	64.4	78.8
2025	61.3	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 H2B?: No. H2B 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 Montréal, Quebec rather than for H2B?: 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 H2B means Montréal, Quebec. 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 H2B?: 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.