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J2W

Quebec

In plain English

J2W had a population of 28,762 in the 2021 Census in Montréal. Its population density makes it a suburban area.

There were 11,325 private dwellings across 51 km².

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

Median after-tax household income was 18% higher than the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 55% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 64% lower than the national figure.

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

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area J2W covering 51 km², in Montréal, Quebec. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

J2W · QC
Population, 2021

28,762

Quebec · mostly Montréal

Counts for J2W, 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 dwellings11,325
Owner households9,240
Renter households1,955
Immigrants1,465
Land area51 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for J2W, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureJ2WMontréalQuebecCanada
Median household income$102,000$76,000$72,500$84,000
Median after-tax income$86,000$65,500$63,200$73,000
Median age4240.843.241.6
Unemployment rate4.6%8.4%7.6%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)4%12%11.9%11.1%
Average household size2.62.32.22.4

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

64%

6 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of J2W’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.
AmenityWithinJ2WCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk64%70%6 points lower than Canada48% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.1 km walk1%66%65 points lower than Canada100% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.1 km walk88%80%8 points higher than Canada46% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk25%45%20 points lower than Canada71% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk95%86%10 points higher than Canada17% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk71%71%about the same as Canada51% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk0%60%60 points lower than Canada100% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk20%28%9 points lower than Canada47% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive100%92%8 points higher than Canada75% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive100%98%about the same as Canada81% below it

0% of J2W’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

October 2025 · survey-zone level
Read this first:

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.

J2W sits inside one CMHC survey zone, Saint-Luc.

Average rent paid in Montréal's survey zones covering J2W (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.
UnitBeing paid (CMHC)ReliabilityBeing asked (StatCan)
Studionot published$1,270
1 bedroomnot published$1,530
2 bedrooms$1,137good (c)$1,900
3+ bedrooms$1,100good (c)$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 J2W, the weakest of their codes is shown.

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.

Air quality

nearest station
No local reading:

Montréal, 33 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 km
What this is:

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of J2W. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

19 facilities within 10 km of J2W 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 19 within 10 km of J2W, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
ADM AGRI-INDUSTRIES - ADM CandiacCandiac · Other Manufacturing9.4 km4143 t
Usine de CandiacCandiac · Chemicals9.3 km968 t
Formica Canada IncSaint-Jean-sur-Richelieu · Plastics and Rubber3.9 km221 t
CandiacCandiac · Other Manufacturing9.7 km216 t
La PrairieLa Prairie · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals8.3 km214 t
ST-JEAN PHOTOCHIMIE - ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEUSt-Jean-sur-Richelieu · Chemicals0.7 km713 t
Usine de St-LucSt-Jean-sur-Richelieu · Plastics and Rubberinside this area39 t
Centre de recyclage et succursale ChamblyChambly · Waste Treatment and Disposal2.8 km128 t
Sivaco QuébecMarieville · Iron and Steel8.3 km34 t
Usine à Béton BrossardBrossard · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals6.0 km33 t
INFASCOMarieville · Iron and Steel8.4 km40.65 t
smr hydraulique chromechambly · Other Manufacturing2.4 km10.00 t

All 19 facilities within 10 km — including the 7 not listed above — together reported 300 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 Montréal, Quebec — a metropolitan area — not J2W. 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.
MeasureMontréal, QuebecCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index61.375.018% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index92.097.25% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index49.566.826% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate40.1%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.
ViolationsMontréal, QuebecCanadaCompared
All violations4,148 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00032% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic3,641 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00035% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,277 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00012% lower than Canada
Property crime1,982 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00037% 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.
YearMontréal, QuebecCanada
201179.877.6
201275.175.5
201366.668.9
201460.966.9
201561.570.4
201658.772.0
201759.173.6
201858.375.6
201957.979.7
202053.073.9
202159.374.9
202261.978.7
202364.181.3
202464.478.8
202561.375.0

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 J2W?
No. J2W 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 J2W?
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 J2W 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 J2W?
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.