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J1X

Quebec

In plain English

J1X had a population of 33,945 in the 2021 Census in Sherbrooke. Its population density makes it a small-town or exurban area.

There were 18,571 private dwellings across 333 km².

Median household income was 20% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 20% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 30% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 30% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 14% higher than the national figure.

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

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area J1X covering 333 km², in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

J1X · QC
Population, 2021

33,945

Quebec · mostly Sherbrooke

Counts for J1X, 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 dwellings18,571
Owner households10,680
Renter households5,305
Immigrants1,280
Land area333 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for J1X, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureJ1XSherbrookeQuebecCanada
Median household income$67,000$65,000$72,500$84,000
Median after-tax income$58,400$56,800$63,200$73,000
Median age5442.843.241.6
Unemployment rate7.2%6%7.6%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)12.7%13.6%11.9%11.1%
Average household size22.12.22.4

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

56%

15 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of J1X’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.
AmenityWithinJ1XCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk56%70%15 points lower than Canada36% 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 walk62%80%18 points lower than Canada55% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk25%45%19 points lower than Canada47% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk82%86%4 points lower than Canada49% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk53%71%18 points lower than Canada48% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk14%60%46 points lower than Canada90% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk27%28%about the same as Canada4% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive97%92%5 points higher than Canada83% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive100%98%about the same as Canada88% below it

0% of J1X’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 Sherbrooke, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
UnitBeing 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 bedroomsnot published
House, 3 or more bedroomsnot published
Room$520
Coverage:

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. J1X is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Sherbrooke 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

nearest station
No local reading:

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Montréal, 120 km from J1X. 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.

Reporting facilities nearby

2024 · within 10 km
What this is:

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of J1X. 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.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Magotteaux ltéeMagog · Iron and Steelinside this area7537 t
Usine de SherbrookeSherbrooke · Plastics and Rubber9.1 km4148 t
Complexe CMaricourt · Transportation Equipment Mfg.8.3 km374 t
Station d'épuration des eauxMagog · Water and Wastewater Systemsinside this area335 t
Usine de CorecellMagog · Plastics and Rubberinside this area624 t
Wulftec InternationalAyer's Cliff · Other Manufacturing4.8 km112 t
Polynt Composites Canada Inc. DrummondvilleDrummondville · Chemicals1.5 km35 t
Usine de MagogMagog · Chemicalsinside this area24 t
Complexe AValcourt · Transportation Equipment Mfg.7.2 km22 t

Together these facilities reported 839 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.

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

Crime

2025 · metropolitan-area figures
Read this first:

These figures describe the whole of Sherbrooke, Quebec — a metropolitan area — not J1X. 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.
MeasureSherbrooke, QuebecCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index50.375.033% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index77.997.220% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index39.666.841% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate52.6%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.
ViolationsSherbrooke, QuebecCanadaCompared
All violations3,557 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00041% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic3,134 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00044% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,023 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00029% lower than Canada
Property crime1,429 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00054% 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.
YearSherbrooke, QuebecCanada
201160.677.6
201261.775.5
201357.668.9
201453.066.9
201550.270.4
201651.272.0
201752.473.6
201852.275.6
201946.979.7
202047.673.9
202151.074.9
202250.578.7
202352.681.3
202454.178.8
202550.375.0

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 J1X?
No. J1X 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 J1X?
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 J1X 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 J1X?
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.