Do these figures describe a specific address in N2L?

No. N2L 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 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario rather than for N2L?

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 N2L 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 N2L?

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.

N2L

Ontario

N2L had a population of 37,953 in the 2021 Census in Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo. Its population density makes it a built-up urban area.

There were 19,681 private dwellings across 16 km².

Median household income was 17% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 14% lower than the national figure.

The median age was 28% lower than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 29% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 77% higher than the national figure.

Average household size was 8% lower than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area N2L covering 16 km², in Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo, Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

37,953

Ontario · mostly Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo

Counts for N2L, 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	19,681
Owner households	5,965
Renter households	10,275
Immigrants	8,775
Land area	16 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for N2L, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	N2L	Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo	Ontario	Canada
Median household income	$69,500	$92,000	$91,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$62,800	$81,000	$79,500	$73,000
Median age	29.8	38	41.6	41.6
Unemployment rate	13.3%	10.9%	12.2%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	19.7%	9.3%	10.1%	11.1%
Average household size	2.2	2.6	2.6	2.4

Median household income in N2L is 17% lower than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in N2L is 14% lower than the national figure.
Median age in N2L is 28% lower than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in N2L is 29% higher than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in N2L is 77% higher than the national figure.
Average household size in N2L is 8% 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

79%

9 points higher than the national share of 70%

Share of N2L’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	N2L	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	79%	70%	9 points higher than Canada	13% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	100%	66%	34 points higher than Canada	1.3× the national index
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	91%	80%	11 points higher than Canada	1.3× the national index
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	60%	45%	15 points higher than Canada	20% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	100%	86%	14 points higher than Canada	52% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	95%	71%	24 points higher than Canada	20% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	81%	60%	21 points higher than Canada	1.1× the national index
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	68%	28%	39 points higher than Canada	1.9× the national index
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	2% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	11% below it

48% of N2L’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.

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.

N2L sits inside one CMHC survey zone, Waterloo.

Average rent paid in Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo's survey zones covering N2L (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.
Unit	Being paid (CMHC)	Reliability	Being asked (StatCan)
Studio	$1,375	good (c)	$1,490
1 bedroom	$1,771	excellent (a)	$1,770
2 bedrooms	$1,917	excellent (a)	$2,110
3+ bedrooms	$1,991	very good (b)	$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 N2L, the weakest of their codes is shown.

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.

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 Health Index at Kitchener

1.79

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	Kitchener
Distance from N2L	8.1 km
Reading	1.79 — Low risk
Highest forecast	2

Measured at Kitchener, 8.1 km from N2L. 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 N2L. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

35 facilities within 10 km of N2L 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 35 within 10 km of N2L, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Oil Recovery DivisionBreslau · Petroleum and Coal Product Refining and Mfg.	8.9 km	16	401 t
Waterloo Landfill Gas Power PlantWaterloo · Electricity	2.2 km	3	158 t
WonderBrands KitchenerKitchener · Other Manufacturing	3.3 km	3	136 t
Ultra Manufacturing - 640 Conrad PlaceWaterloo · Plastics and Rubber	0.9 km	2	104 t
Mitchell PlasticsKitchener · Plastics and Rubber	6.2 km	2	94 t
MorvalKitchener · Plastics and Rubber	4.5 km	1	86 t
Plasti-Fab - KitchenerKitchener · Plastics and Rubber	3.3 km	2	70 t
Custom Foam SystemsKitchener · Plastics and Rubber	7.4 km	2	67 t
Waterloo Landfill SiteWaterloo · Waste Treatment and Disposal	2.2 km	3	55 t
ELMIRA PLANTElmira · Chemicals	9.9 km	5	44 t
TB - ElmiraElmira · Other Manufacturing	8.9 km	5	37 t
Boehmer Box LPKitchener · Other Manufacturing	7.8 km	3	24 t

All 35 facilities within 10 km — including the 23 not listed above — together reported 1,380 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 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario — a metropolitan area — not N2L. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

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.
Measure	Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	66.8	75.0	11% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	85.1	97.2	12% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	60.1	66.8	10% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	34.0%	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.
Violations	Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario	Canada	Compared
All violations	5,270 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	13% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	5,083 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	9% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,397 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	3% lower than Canada
Property crime	3,026 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	4% 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.
Year	Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario	Canada
2011	64.1	77.6
2012	59.5	75.5
2013	57.6	68.9
2014	55.8	66.9
2015	60.6	70.4
2016	60.8	72.0
2017	69.4	73.6
2018	74.1	75.6
2019	73.5	79.7
2020	74.9	73.9
2021	76.3	74.9
2022	78.9	78.7
2023	75.8	81.3
2024	73.1	78.8
2025	66.8	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 N2L?: No. N2L 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 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario rather than for N2L?: 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 N2L 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 N2L?: 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.