H3B
Quebec
In plain English
H3B had a population of 1,900 in the 2021 Census in Quebec, outside any census metropolitan area. Its population density makes it a densely built urban area.
There were 1,566 private dwellings across 0.4 km².
Median household income was 41% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax household income was 39% lower than the national figure.
The median age was 27% lower than the national figure.
The unemployment rate was 19% higher than the national figure.
The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 3.4× higher than the national figure.
Average household size was 33% lower than the national figure.
Where this is
The area
H3B · QC1,900
Quebec · not part of a census metropolitan area
| Private dwellings | 1,566 |
|---|---|
| Owner households | 515 |
| Renter households | 535 |
| Immigrants | 720 |
| Land area | 0.4 km² |
Compared with
| Measure | H3B | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $49,200 | — | $84,000 |
| Median after-tax income | $44,800 | — | $73,000 |
| Median age | 30.2 | — | 41.6 |
| Unemployment rate | 12.3% | — | 10.3% |
| Low income (LIM-AT) | 38.1% | — | 11.1% |
| Average household size | 1.6 | — | 2.4 |
- Median household income in H3B is 41% lower than the national figure.
- Median after-tax income in H3B is 39% lower than the national figure.
- Median age in H3B is 27% lower than the national figure.
- Unemployment rate in H3B is 19% higher than the national figure.
- Low income (LIM-AT) in H3B is 3.4× higher than the national figure.
- Average household size in H3B is 33% lower than the national figure.
No city comparison. H3B 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.
Air quality
nearest stationMontréal, 6.5 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.
Reporting facilities nearby
2024 · within 10 kmFacilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of H3B. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.
53 facilities within 10 km of H3B reported to the inventory. The 12 that released the most to air are listed; the total below covers all of them.
| Facility | Distance | Substances | Released to air |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant #34 MontrealMontreal · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals | 2.5 km | 9 | 734 t |
| Haleon MontréalMontréal · Chemicals | 9.2 km | 5 | 684 t |
| MontrealMontréal · Other Manufacturing | 1.6 km | 7 | 588 t |
| Établissement 01Longueuil · Transportation Equipment Mfg. | 7.6 km | 7 | 193 t |
| Port of Montreal ViterraMontreal · Other (Except Manufacturing) | 2.0 km | 3 | 191 t |
| LA CIE MATÉRIAUX DE CONSTRUCTION BP CANADA - LASALLELaSalle · Petroleum and Coal Product Refining and Mfg. | 8.8 km | 4 | 171 t |
| Levure FleischmannLaSalle · Other Manufacturing | 10.0 km | 4 | 166 t |
| Lantic Inc. - Raffinerie MontréalMontréal · Other Manufacturing | 5.1 km | 4 | 136 t |
| Complexe environnemental St-MichelMontréal · Waste Treatment and Disposal | 6.9 km | 4 | 111 t |
| Montreal Plant (024)Montréal · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals | 9.4 km | 6 | 104 t |
| ADM AGRI-INDUSTRIES - ADM Milling Co. - Royal MillMontreal · Other Manufacturing | 1.3 km | 3 | 95 t |
| LA BRASSERIE LABATTLaSalle · Other Manufacturing | 9.7 km | 3 | 90 t |
All 53 facilities within 10 km — including the 41 not listed above — together reported 4,073 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.
Crime
2025 · provincial figuresThese figures describe the whole of Quebec — a province or territory — not H3B. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.
61.6
Quebec · 18% lower than the national index of 75.0
| Measure | Quebec | Canada | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index | 61.6 | 75.0 | 18% lower than Canada |
| Violent Crime Severity Index | 98.0 | 97.2 | about the same as Canada |
| Non-violent Crime Severity Index | 47.5 | 66.8 | 29% lower than Canada |
| Weighted clearance rate | 45.6% | 36.6% | 8.9 percentage points higher than Canada |
| Violations | Quebec | Canada | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|
| All violations | 4,199 per 100,000 | 6,065 per 100,000 | 31% lower than Canada |
| Criminal Code, excluding traffic | 3,673 per 100,000 | 5,585 per 100,000 | 34% lower than Canada |
| Violent Criminal Code | 1,472 per 100,000 | 1,443 per 100,000 | about the same as Canada |
| Property crime | 1,768 per 100,000 | 3,141 per 100,000 | 44% lower than Canada |
Year-by-year figures
| Year | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 73.3 | 77.6 |
| 2012 | 70.7 | 75.5 |
| 2013 | 62.7 | 68.9 |
| 2014 | 57.7 | 66.9 |
| 2015 | 57.0 | 70.4 |
| 2016 | 56.6 | 72.0 |
| 2017 | 57.9 | 73.6 |
| 2018 | 56.6 | 75.6 |
| 2019 | 55.9 | 79.7 |
| 2020 | 51.8 | 73.9 |
| 2021 | 56.8 | 74.9 |
| 2022 | 60.4 | 78.7 |
| 2023 | 62.6 | 81.3 |
| 2024 | 64.8 | 78.8 |
| 2025 | 61.5 | 75.0 |
- H3B is not inside a metropolitan area that publishes crime figures, so the comparison is against Quebec 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.
Common questions
- Do these figures describe a specific address in H3B?
- No. H3B 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 Quebec rather than for H3B?
- 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 H3B means 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 H3B?
- 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
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.