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N0B

Ontario — a rural forward sortation area

In plain English

N0B had a population of 86,919 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 31,269 private dwellings across 2,107 km².

Median household income was 43% higher than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 40% higher than the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 32% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 47% lower than the national figure.

Average household size was 21% higher than 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 N0B covering 2,107 km², in Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

N0B · ON
Population, 2021

86,919

Ontario · no metropolitan area covers most of this postal area

Counts for N0B, 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 dwellings31,269
Owner households26,505
Renter households3,630
Immigrants10,420
Land area2,107 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for N0B, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureN0BOntarioCanada
Median household income$120,000$91,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$102,000$79,500$73,000
Median age42.841.641.6
Unemployment rate7%12.2%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)5.9%10.1%11.1%
Average household size2.92.62.4
Note:

No city comparison. N0B does touch the Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo census metropolitan area, but only 29% of its residents live inside it. Comparing the whole area against Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo 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

34%

36 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of N0B’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.
AmenityWithinN0BCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk34%70%36 points lower than Canada79% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.1 km walk10%66%55 points lower than Canada99% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.1 km walk54%80%26 points lower than Canada62% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk15%45%30 points lower than Canada80% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk60%86%26 points lower than Canada70% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk47%71%24 points lower than Canada62% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk41%60%19 points lower than Canada55% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk29%28%about the same as Canada9% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive81%92%11 points lower than Canada94% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive100%98%about the same as Canada91% below it

2% of N0B’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.

N0B spans 3 CMHC survey zones — Three Townships (29%), Ancast./Dundas/Flambor./Glanbrk. (3%), Milton/Halton Hills (1%). The figures below are averaged across them, weighted by population.

Coverage:

Only 32% of N0B's residents live inside a CMHC survey zone. These figures describe those zones — they are not a rent for the rest of this area, which CMHC does not survey.

Average rent paid in Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo's survey zones covering N0B (CMHC, October 2025), against average asking rent across Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo (Statistics Canada, January 2026). The two are measured differently and are not comparable line by line.
UnitBeing paid (CMHC)ReliabilityBeing asked (StatCan)
Studio$1,225very good (b)$1,490
1 bedroom$1,236very good (b)$1,770
2 bedrooms$1,473very good (b)$2,110
3+ bedrooms$1,466use with caution (d)$2,440

Reliability is CMHC’s own code for how much the sample supports the figure, from excellent to use with caution. Where several zones cover N0B, 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

live · nearest station
Air Quality Health Index at Kitchener

1.75

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.
StationKitchener
Distance from N0B15 km
Reading1.75Low risk
Highest forecast2

Measured at Kitchener, 15 km from N0B. 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 N0B. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

223 facilities within 10 km of N0B 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 223 within 10 km of N0B, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Dundas OperationsDundas · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals6.0 km64,243 t
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (Cambridge)Cambridge · Transportation Equipment Mfg.3.0 km15955 t
Dundas QuarryDundas · Mining and Quarrying5.9 km3520 t
Oil Recovery DivisionBreslau · Petroleum and Coal Product Refining and Mfg.inside this area16401 t
Wallenstein Feed & SupplyWallenstein · Other Manufacturinginside this area9256 t
AOC Resins and Coatings Co.Guelph · Chemicals1.6 km13225 t
Acton QuarryActon · Mining and Quarrying4.4 km3203 t
Milton QuarryMilton · Mining and Quarrying9.4 km5176 t
Waterloo Landfill Gas Power PlantWaterloo · Electricity0.6 km3158 t
Caledon AGG SiteCaledon · Mining and Quarrying8.2 km3147 t
Direct Plastics LimitedOrangeville · Other Manufacturing5.6 km1144 t
WonderBrands KitchenerKitchener · Other Manufacturing2.6 km3136 t

All 223 facilities within 10 km — including the 211 not listed above — together reported 10,695 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 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario — a metropolitan area — not N0B. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Only 29% of N0B's residents live inside Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, 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

66.8

Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario · 11% lower than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, 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.
MeasureKitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, OntarioCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index66.875.011% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index85.197.212% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index60.166.810% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate34.0%36.6%2.6 percentage points lower 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.
ViolationsKitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, OntarioCanadaCompared
All violations5,270 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00013% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic5,083 per 100,0005,585 per 100,0009% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,397 per 100,0001,443 per 100,0003% lower than Canada
Property crime3,026 per 100,0003,141 per 100,0004% lower than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was higher than in 2011 — 66.8 against 64.1. 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.
YearKitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, OntarioCanada
201164.177.6
201259.575.5
201357.668.9
201455.866.9
201560.670.4
201660.872.0
201769.473.6
201874.175.6
201973.579.7
202074.973.9
202176.374.9
202278.978.7
202375.881.3
202473.178.8
202566.875.0

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 N0B?
No. N0B 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 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario rather than for N0B?
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 N0B means Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, 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 N0B?
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.