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K0L

Ontario — a rural forward sortation area

In plain English

K0L had a population of 78,142 in the 2021 Census in Ontario. No census metropolitan area covers most of it. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 48,786 private dwellings across 7,368 km².

Median household income was 6% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was about the same as the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 9% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was about the same as the national figure.

Average household size was about the same as the national figure.

This is a rural forward sortation area, which can cover a very large territory — figures describe the whole of it, not one community within it.

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area K0L covering 7,368 km², in Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

K0L · ON
Population, 2021

78,142

Ontario · no metropolitan area covers most of this postal area

Counts for K0L, 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 dwellings48,786
Owner households28,895
Renter households4,015
Immigrants5,880
Land area7,368 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for K0L, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureK0LOntarioCanada
Median household income$79,000$91,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$70,500$79,500$73,000
Median age5441.641.6
Unemployment rate11.2%12.2%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)10.9%10.1%11.1%
Average household size2.32.62.4
Note:

No city comparison. K0L does touch the Peterborough census metropolitan area, but only 31% of its residents live inside it. Comparing the whole area against Peterborough would describe somewhere most of it is not, so the comparison is left out rather than shown faintly. Province and Canada cover all of it.

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

24%

46 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of K0L’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.
AmenityWithinK0LCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk24%70%46 points lower than Canada82% 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 walk26%80%54 points lower than Canada88% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk14%45%31 points lower than Canada82% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk34%86%52 points lower than Canada94% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk23%71%49 points lower than Canada83% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk23%60%37 points lower than Canada75% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk27%28%about the same as Canada16% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive55%92%37 points lower than Canada98% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive99%98%about the same as Canada99% below it

0% of K0L’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 Peterborough, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
UnitBeing asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom$1,630
Apartment, 2 bedrooms$1,940
Apartment, 3 or more bedrooms$2,400
Apartment, No bedroomnot published
House, 2 bedroomsnot published
House, 3 or more bedroomsnot published
Room$740
Coverage:

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. K0L is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Peterborough 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

live · nearest station
Air Quality Health Index at Peterborough

1.41

Low risk · 11:00 AM EDT Thursday 13 August 2026

The Air Quality Health Index combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale. It is a reading at a station, not a measurement of any address.
StationPeterborough
Distance from K0L31 km
Reading1.41Low risk
Highest forecast2

Measured at Peterborough, 31 km from K0L. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.

Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Health Index. Data current as of 11:00 AM EDT Thursday 13 August 2026. 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 K0L. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

27 facilities within 10 km of K0L 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 27 within 10 km of K0L, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Kawartha Ethanol Inc.Havelock · Chemicalsinside this area11297 t
Nepheline Syenite OperationsHavelock · Mining and Quarryinginside this area12181 t
Burnt River QuarryKawartha Lakes · Mining and Quarrying5.5 km4121 t
Bancroft TreatingBancroft · Wood Productsinside this area4113 t
ESCO LimitedPort Hope · Iron and Steel9.4 km9incl. dioxins/furans54 t
Combermere Treating PlantCombermere · Wood Products3.4 km530 t
AkzoNobel Wood Coatings (Port Hope)Port Hope · Chemicals7.0 km1223 t
Peterborough AirportPeterborough · Transportation Equipment Mfg.2.5 km121 t
Peterborough County/City Waste Management FacilityPeterborough · Waste Treatment and Disposal2.0 km318 t
CavanCavan · Other Manufacturing0.5 km215 t
Quaker Peterborough PlantPeterborough · Other Manufacturing6.0 km25 t
Genpak LPPeterborough · Other Manufacturing6.9 km15 t

All 27 facilities within 10 km — including the 15 not listed above — together reported 896 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 Peterborough, Ontario — a metropolitan area — not K0L. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Only 31% of K0L's residents live inside Peterborough, Ontario. The rest are policed by different services, which report their own figures — so this is not a figure for most of this area.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

57.3

Peterborough, Ontario · 24% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Peterborough, Ontario, 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.
MeasurePeterborough, OntarioCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index57.375.024% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index65.297.233% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index54.766.818% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate48.9%36.6%12.3 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.
ViolationsPeterborough, OntarioCanadaCompared
All violations5,705 per 100,0006,065 per 100,0006% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic5,385 per 100,0005,585 per 100,0004% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code911 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00037% lower than Canada
Property crime2,821 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00010% lower than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Peterborough, Ontario (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 57.3 against 63.8. 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.
YearPeterborough, OntarioCanada
201163.877.6
201263.675.5
201354.368.9
201453.466.9
201555.370.4
201655.172.0
201753.173.6
201849.075.6
201953.879.7
202061.273.9
202163.174.9
202262.478.7
202360.881.3
202461.178.8
202557.375.0

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 K0L?
No. K0L 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. This is a rural forward sortation area, which can cover a very large territory, so the gap between the area and any one community inside it is especially wide.
Why is the crime figure for Peterborough, Ontario rather than for K0L?
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 K0L means Peterborough, Ontario. 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 K0L?
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.