Do these figures describe a specific address in J1M?

No. J1M 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 Sherbrooke, Quebec rather than for J1M?

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 J1M means Sherbrooke, 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 J1M?

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.

J1M

Quebec

J1M had a population of 5,923 in the 2021 Census in Sherbrooke. Its population density makes it a small-town or exurban area.

There were 3,020 private dwellings across 28 km².

Median household income was 28% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 26% lower than the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 20% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 54% higher than the national figure.

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

The boundary of forward sortation area J1M covering 28 km², in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

5,923

Quebec · mostly Sherbrooke

Counts for J1M, 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	3,020
Owner households	1,360
Renter households	1,280
Immigrants	505
Land area	28 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for J1M, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	J1M	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada
Median household income	$60,400	$65,000	$72,500	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$54,000	$56,800	$63,200	$73,000
Median age	40.4	42.8	43.2	41.6
Unemployment rate	8.2%	6%	7.6%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	17.1%	13.6%	11.9%	11.1%
Average household size	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.4

Median household income in J1M is 28% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in J1M is 26% lower than the national figure.
Median age in J1M is about the same as the national figure.
Unemployment rate in J1M is 20% lower than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in J1M is 54% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in J1M 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

63%

7 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of J1M’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	J1M	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	63%	70%	7 points lower than Canada	22% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	81%	66%	16 points higher than Canada	72% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	75%	80%	5 points lower than Canada	39% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	38%	45%	7 points lower than Canada	33% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	88%	86%	2 points higher than Canada	52% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	67%	71%	4 points lower than Canada	45% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	4%	60%	55 points lower than Canada	96% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	55%	28%	26 points higher than Canada	1.9× the national index
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	94%	92%	about the same as Canada	85% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	80% below it

38% of J1M’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.

Average asking rent across Sherbrooke, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
Unit	Being asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom	$1,060
Apartment, 2 bedrooms	$1,250
Apartment, 3 or more bedrooms	$1,560
Apartment, No bedroom	$820
House, 2 bedrooms	not published
House, 3 or more bedrooms	not published
Room	$520

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. J1M is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Sherbrooke area.

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.

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Montréal, 141 km from J1M. That is far enough to be a different airshed, so its reading is not shown here as though it described this area. The index is published for about 130 communities and zones, not continuously across 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 J1M. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

Reported releases to air, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Usine de SherbrookeSherbrooke · Plastics and Rubber	8.7 km	4	148 t
Station d'épuration de SherbrookeSherbrooke · Water and Wastewater Systems	7.5 km	14	88 t
Ball Advanced Aluminum Technologies Canada Inc.Sherbrooke · Aluminum	3.6 km	2	30 t
Fabrication région Est, SherbrookeSherbrooke · Pulp and Paper	inside this area	1	16 t
SherbrookeSherbrooke · Other Manufacturing	1.8 km	6	3 t
Technologies Avancées de Fibres (AFT) incSherbrooke · Other Manufacturing	inside this area	1	0.00 t
PRODUITS AMERICAN BILTRITE LTEE. - SHERBROOKESherbrooke · Plastics and Rubber	2.4 km	0	not reported
TLD (CANADA) INC.Sherbrooke · Other Manufacturing	3.7 km	0	not reported
Waterville TG WatervilleWaterville · Plastics and Rubber	6.4 km	0	not reported
Usine de SherbrookeSherbrooke · Plastics and Rubber	6.5 km	0	not reported
C-MAC SherbrookeSherbrooke · Other Manufacturing	7.3 km	0	not reported
INTERSTAR MATERIALSSherbrooke · Chemicals	7.3 km	0	not reported

Together these facilities reported 284 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 Sherbrooke, Quebec — a metropolitan area — not J1M. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

50.3

Sherbrooke, Quebec · 33% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Sherbrooke, 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	Sherbrooke, Quebec	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	50.3	75.0	33% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	77.9	97.2	20% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	39.6	66.8	41% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	52.6%	36.6%	16 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	Sherbrooke, Quebec	Canada	Compared
All violations	3,557 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	41% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	3,134 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	44% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,023 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	29% lower than Canada
Property crime	1,429 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	54% lower than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Sherbrooke, Quebec (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 50.3 against 60.6. 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	Sherbrooke, Quebec	Canada
2011	60.6	77.6
2012	61.7	75.5
2013	57.6	68.9
2014	53.0	66.9
2015	50.2	70.4
2016	51.2	72.0
2017	52.4	73.6
2018	52.2	75.6
2019	46.9	79.7
2020	47.6	73.9
2021	51.0	74.9
2022	50.5	78.7
2023	52.6	81.3
2024	54.1	78.8
2025	50.3	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 J1M?: No. J1M 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 Sherbrooke, Quebec rather than for J1M?: 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 J1M means Sherbrooke, 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 J1M?: 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.