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P0T

Ontario — a rural forward sortation area

In plain English

P0T had a population of 32,000 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 17,869 private dwellings across 94,592 km².

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

Median after-tax household income was 5% 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 35% higher than the national figure.

Average household size was about the same as 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 P0T covering 94,592 km², in Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

P0T · ON
Population, 2021

32,000

Ontario · no metropolitan area covers most of this postal area

Counts for P0T, 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 dwellings17,869
Owner households10,270
Renter households1,995
Immigrants1,665
Land area94,592 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for P0T, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureP0TOntarioCanada
Median household income$77,000$91,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$69,000$79,500$73,000
Median age45.641.641.6
Unemployment rate10.1%12.2%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)15%10.1%11.1%
Average household size2.32.62.4
Note:

No city comparison. P0T does touch the Thunder Bay census metropolitan area, but only 14% of its residents live inside it. Comparing the whole area against Thunder Bay 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

36%

35 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of P0T’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.
AmenityWithinP0TCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk36%70%35 points lower than Canada82% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.1 km walk0%66%66 points lower than Canada100% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.1 km walk30%80%50 points lower than Canada88% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk10%45%34 points lower than Canada90% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk27%86%59 points lower than Canada97% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk55%71%16 points lower than Canada52% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk53%60%6 points lower than Canada31% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk33%28%5 points higher than Canada1.1× the national index
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive67%92%26 points lower than Canada96% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive87%98%12 points lower than Canada99% below it

0% of P0T’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

metropolitan-area level
Average asking rent across Thunder Bay, Statistics Canada experimental estimates, January 2026.
UnitBeing asked (StatCan)
Apartment, 1 bedroom$1,550
Apartment, 2 bedrooms$1,890
Apartment, 3 or more bedroomsnot published
Apartment, No bedroomnot published
House, 2 bedroomsnot published
House, 3 or more bedrooms$2,430
Room$710
Coverage:

CMHC surveys purpose-built rental buildings only in centres of 10,000 or more, and publishes zone-level figures for eighteen major centres. P0T is not in one, so only the asking-rent series is available and it describes the whole Thunder Bay area.

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

nearest station
No local reading:

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Thunder Bay, 122 km from P0T. 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.

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 P0T. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

25 facilities within 10 km of P0T 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 25 within 10 km of P0T, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
AV Terrace BayTerrace Bay · Pulp and Paperinside this area71,609 t
Williams MineMarathon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area221,065 t
Eagle River Mine SiteWawa · Mining and Quarryinginside this area17347 t
Nakina FPNakina · Wood Productsinside this area6171 t
BioPower Sustainable Energy Corp.Atikokan · Wood Productsinside this area4156 t
Atikokan Generating StationAtikokan · Electricityinside this area5154 t
JELLICOE COMP STNn/a · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storageinside this area1107 t
Thunder Bay Terminal A (AU) ViterraThunder Bay · Other (Except Manufacturing)6.9 km397 t
UPSALA COMP STNn/a · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storageinside this area197 t
Thunder BayThunder Bay · Other (Except Manufacturing)2.5 km378 t
Armstrong Diesel Generating StationArmstrong · Electricityinside this area373 t
Webequie Diesel Generating StationWebequie · Electricityinside this area372 t

All 25 facilities within 10 km — including the 13 not listed above — together reported 4,461 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 Thunder Bay, Ontario — a metropolitan area — not P0T. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Only 14% of P0T's residents live inside Thunder Bay, 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

114.1

Thunder Bay, Ontario · 52% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Thunder Bay, 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.
MeasureThunder Bay, OntarioCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index114.175.052% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index195.197.22.0× higher than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index82.766.824% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate47.2%36.6%10.5 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.
ViolationsThunder Bay, OntarioCanadaCompared
All violations8,775 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00045% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic8,374 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00050% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code2,249 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00056% higher than Canada
Property crime5,114 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00063% higher than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Thunder Bay, Ontario (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was higher than in 2011 — 114.1 against 105.7. 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.
YearThunder Bay, OntarioCanada
2011105.777.6
201288.075.5
201381.468.9
201489.666.9
201580.170.4
201684.072.0
201786.173.6
201898.175.6
2019100.779.7
202093.573.9
2021101.874.9
2022102.278.7
202399.581.3
2024110.778.8
2025114.175.0

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 P0T?
No. P0T 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 Thunder Bay, Ontario rather than for P0T?
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 P0T means Thunder Bay, 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 P0T?
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.