Do these figures describe a specific address in L9J?

No. L9J 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 Barrie, Ontario rather than for L9J?

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 L9J means Barrie, 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 L9J?

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.

L9J

Ontario

L9J had a population of 2,272 in the 2021 Census in Barrie. Its population density makes it a small-town or exurban area.

There were 1,138 private dwellings across 27 km².

Median household income was about the same as the national figure.

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

The median age was 12% lower than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 45% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 28% lower than the national figure.

Average household size was 12% lower than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area L9J covering 27 km², in Barrie, Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

2,272

Ontario · mostly Barrie

Counts for L9J, 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	1,138
Owner households	650
Renter households	365
Immigrants	600
Land area	27 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for L9J, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	L9J	Barrie	Ontario	Canada
Median household income	$84,000	$97,000	$91,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$72,500	$85,000	$79,500	$73,000
Median age	36.8	40	41.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	14.9%	12.1%	12.2%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	8%	7.7%	10.1%	11.1%
Average household size	2.1	2.7	2.6	2.4

Median household income in L9J is about the same as the national figure.
Median after-tax income in L9J is about the same as the national figure.
Median age in L9J is 12% lower than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in L9J is 45% higher than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in L9J is 28% lower than the national figure.
Average household size in L9J is 12% lower 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

66%

5 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of L9J’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	L9J	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	66%	70%	5 points lower than Canada	69% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	66%	66%	about the same as Canada	92% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	34%	80%	46 points lower than Canada	71% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	1%	45%	44 points lower than Canada	99% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	91%	86%	5 points higher than Canada	50% 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	40% 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	22% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	3%	28%	25 points lower than Canada	96% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	78% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	60% below it

0% of L9J’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 Barrie, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
Unit	Being asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom	$1,780
Apartment, 2 bedrooms	$2,140
Apartment, 3 or more bedrooms	$2,430
Apartment, No bedroom	not published
House, 2 bedrooms	$2,170
House, 3 or more bedrooms	$2,830
Room	$770

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. L9J is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Barrie 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 Barrie

1.36

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	Barrie
Distance from L9J	4.3 km
Reading	1.36 — Low risk
Highest forecast	2

Measured at Barrie, 4.3 km from L9J. 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 L9J. 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
TEMPOInnisfil · Plastics and Rubber	1.8 km	1	376 t
DECASTUtopia · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals	7.1 km	8	91 t
Wastewater Treatment FacilityBarrie · Water and Wastewater Systems	1.4 km	4	63 t
NACBarrie · Other Manufacturing	0.7 km	3	13 t
RoadwarriorInnisfil · Transportation Equipment Mfg.	1.3 km	1	0.03 t
Wolf Steel LtdBarrie · Other Manufacturing	8.2 km	1	0.00 t
Quantum Lifecycle Partners LP BarrieBarrie · Waste Treatment and Disposal	0.7 km	4	0.00 t
Usine de Barrie OntarioBarrie · Other Manufacturing	0.8 km	1	0 t
Comet Chemical CompanyInnisfil · Other (Except Manufacturing)	1.4 km	14	0 t

Together these facilities reported 542 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 Barrie, Ontario — a metropolitan area — not L9J. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

46.9

Barrie, Ontario · 37% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Barrie, 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	Barrie, Ontario	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	46.9	75.0	37% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	55.9	97.2	43% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	43.8	66.8	34% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	46.0%	36.6%	9.4 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	Barrie, Ontario	Canada	Compared
All violations	4,050 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	33% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	3,777 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	32% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	812 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	44% lower than Canada
Property crime	2,192 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	30% lower than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Barrie, Ontario (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 46.9 against 53.0. 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	Barrie, Ontario	Canada
2011	53.0	77.6
2012	49.4	75.5
2013	42.3	68.9
2014	43.1	66.9
2015	42.9	70.4
2016	44.5	72.0
2017	45.0	73.6
2018	48.8	75.6
2019	53.0	79.7
2020	44.9	73.9
2021	45.0	74.9
2022	47.0	78.7
2023	49.0	81.3
2024	48.3	78.8
2025	46.9	75.0

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 L9J?: No. L9J 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 Barrie, Ontario rather than for L9J?: 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 L9J means Barrie, 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 L9J?: 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.