Do these figures describe a specific address in L1R?

No. L1R 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 L1R?

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 L1R 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 L1R?

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.

L1R

Ontario

L1R had a population of 42,221 in the 2021 Census in Oshawa. Its population density makes it a built-up urban area.

There were 13,260 private dwellings across 22 km².

Median household income was 61% higher than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 56% higher than the national figure.

The median age was 6% lower than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 13% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 59% lower than the national figure.

Average household size was 33% higher than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area L1R covering 22 km², in Oshawa, Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

42,221

Ontario · mostly Oshawa

Counts for L1R, 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	13,260
Owner households	11,635
Renter households	1,475
Immigrants	13,515
Land area	22 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for L1R, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	L1R	Oshawa	Ontario	Canada
Median household income	$135,000	$102,000	$91,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$114,000	$89,000	$79,500	$73,000
Median age	39.2	39.6	41.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	11.6%	13.2%	12.2%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	4.5%	7.3%	10.1%	11.1%
Average household size	3.2	2.8	2.6	2.4

Median household income in L1R is 61% higher than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in L1R is 56% higher than the national figure.
Median age in L1R is 6% lower than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in L1R is 13% higher than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in L1R is 59% lower than the national figure.
Average household size in L1R is 33% higher 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

80%

10 points higher than the national share of 70%

Share of L1R’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	L1R	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	80%	70%	10 points higher than Canada	40% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	95%	66%	29 points higher than Canada	11% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	96%	80%	16 points higher than Canada	1.0× the national index
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	71%	45%	27 points higher than Canada	1.2× the national index
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	100%	86%	14 points higher than Canada	1.1× the national index
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	91%	71%	19 points higher than Canada	6% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	94%	60%	35 points higher than Canada	1.3× the national index
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	12%	28%	17 points lower than Canada	83% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	38% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	39% below it

9% of L1R’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 Oshawa, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
Unit	Being asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom	$1,740
Apartment, 2 bedrooms	$2,000
Apartment, 3 or more bedrooms	$2,450
Apartment, No bedroom	$1,490
House, 2 bedrooms	$2,350
House, 3 or more bedrooms	$2,910
Room	$780

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. L1R is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Oshawa 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.

Air Quality Health Index at Oshawa

1.74

Low risk · 12:00 PM 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.
Station	Oshawa
Distance from L1R	6.6 km
Reading	1.74 — Low risk
Highest forecast	2

Measured at Oshawa, 6.6 km from L1R. 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 12:00 PM 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.

Facilities that reported releasing a listed substance to the National Pollutant Release Inventory, within 10 km of L1R. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

22 facilities within 10 km of L1R 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 22 within 10 km of L1R, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation, Whitby MillWhitby · Iron and Steel	5.2 km	18incl. dioxins/furans	935 t
Oshawa Assembly PlantOshawa · Transportation Equipment Mfg.	4.6 km	14	455 t
TC Transcontinental PackagingWhitby · Plastics and Rubber	4.9 km	1	241 t
WhitbyWhitby · Pulp and Paper	4.9 km	7incl. dioxins/furans	191 t
BALL PACKAGING WHITBYWhitby · Other Manufacturing	5.2 km	6	156 t
Plasti-Fab - AjaxAjax · Plastics and Rubber	7.4 km	2	111 t
Corbett Creek WPCPWhitby · Water and Wastewater Systems	5.8 km	2	45 t
OshawaOshawa · Petroleum and Coal Product Refining and Mfg.	7.6 km	2	30 t
Patheon WROWhitby · Chemicals	3.8 km	1	22 t
Harmony Creek WPCPOshawa · Water and Wastewater Systems	7.3 km	2	16 t
LENNOX DRUM LIMITEDAjax · Other (Except Manufacturing)	9.0 km	6	13 t
WestRock - AJAXAjax · Pulp and Paper	7.8 km	1	9 t

All 22 facilities within 10 km — including the 10 not listed above — together reported 2,229 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.
Dioxins and furans are reported in grams of toxic equivalent, a toxicity-weighted figure that cannot be added to a tonnage. Facilities reporting them are marked, and those grams are left out of every tonnage here — the rest of what those facilities released is counted.

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 L1R. 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

L1R 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 L1R?: No. L1R 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 L1R?: 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 L1R 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 L1R?: 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.