Do these figures describe a specific address in K8A?

No. K8A 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 Ontario rather than for K8A?

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 K8A means 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 K8A?

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.

K8A

Ontario

K8A had a population of 26,392 in the 2021 Census — 91% of its residents live inside the Pembroke area. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 11,919 private dwellings across 618 km².

Median household income was 11% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 8% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 10% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was about the same as the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 8% higher than the national figure.

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

The boundary of forward sortation area K8A covering 618 km², in Pembroke, Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

26,392

Ontario · mostly Pembroke (91% of residents)

Counts for K8A, 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	11,919
Owner households	7,970
Renter households	3,370
Immigrants	1,110
Land area	618 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for K8A, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	K8A	Pembroke	Ontario	Canada
Median household income	$75,000	$73,000	$91,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$67,000	$65,500	$79,500	$73,000
Median age	45.6	46	41.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	10.7%	11%	12.2%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	12%	12.4%	10.1%	11.1%
Average household size	2.3	2.3	2.6	2.4

Median household income in K8A is 11% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in K8A is 8% lower than the national figure.
Median age in K8A is 10% higher than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in K8A is about the same as the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in K8A is 8% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in K8A is about the same as 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

58%

13 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of K8A’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	K8A	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	58%	70%	13 points lower than Canada	49% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	0%	66%	66 points lower than Canada	100% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	66%	80%	14 points lower than Canada	50% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	35%	45%	10 points lower than Canada	37% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	83%	86%	3 points lower than Canada	41% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	59%	71%	12 points lower than Canada	33% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	61%	60%	about the same as Canada	1.2× the national index
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	16%	28%	12 points lower than Canada	66% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	88%	92%	4 points lower than Canada	75% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	90% below it

0% of K8A’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.

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Ottawa, 121 km from K8A. 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 K8A. 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
Roseburg Forest Products Canada Ltd. (Pembroke MDF)Pembroke · Wood Products	inside this area	10	1,732 t
PEMBROKE COMP STNn/a · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storage	inside this area	2	189 t
OTTAWA VALLEY WASTE RECOVERY CENTREPembroke · Waste Treatment and Disposal	inside this area	3	146 t
4 CDSB - Garrison PetawawaPetawawa · Other (Except Manufacturing)	5.3 km	6	40 t
Pembroke Pollution Control CentrePembroke · Water and Wastewater Systems	inside this area	1	0 t

Together these facilities reported 2,106 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 Ontario — a province or territory — not K8A. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

57.2

Ontario · 24% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for 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.
Measure	Ontario	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	57.2	75.0	24% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	74.9	97.2	23% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	50.6	66.8	24% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	39.8%	36.6%	3.2 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	Ontario	Canada	Compared
All violations	4,582 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	24% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	4,296 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	23% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,078 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	25% lower than Canada
Property crime	2,600 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	17% lower than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Ontario (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 57.2 against 61.2. 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	Ontario	Canada
2011	61.2	77.6
2012	59.0	75.5
2013	52.6	68.9
2014	49.9	66.9
2015	51.0	70.4
2016	53.3	72.0
2017	56.3	73.6
2018	60.3	75.6
2019	60.9	79.7
2020	55.4	73.9
2021	56.0	74.9
2022	58.8	78.7
2023	61.5	81.3
2024	61.0	78.8
2025	57.2	75.0

K8A is not inside a metropolitan area that publishes crime figures, so the comparison is against Ontario 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.

Do these figures describe a specific address in K8A?: No. K8A 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 Ontario rather than for K8A?: 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 K8A means 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 K8A?: 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.