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P8N

Ontario

In plain English

P8N had a population of 9,619 in the 2021 Census in Ontario, outside any census metropolitan area. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 4,597 private dwellings across 564 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 15% higher than the national figure.

The unemployment rate was 21% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 13% lower than the national figure.

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

Where this is

The boundary of forward sortation area P8N covering 564 km², in Ontario. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

P8N · ON
Population, 2021

9,619

Ontario · not part of a census metropolitan area

Counts for P8N, 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 dwellings4,597
Owner households3,190
Renter households1,045
Immigrants550
Land area564 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for P8N, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureP8NOntarioCanada
Median household income$83,000$91,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$73,500$79,500$73,000
Median age4841.641.6
Unemployment rate8.1%12.2%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)9.7%10.1%11.1%
Average household size2.22.62.4
Note:

No city comparison. P8N is not inside a census metropolitan area or agglomeration, so there is no city to compare it against. Statistics Canada classifies the surrounding area by how strongly it is influenced by a metropolitan centre, which is not a place and is not a useful benchmark. Province and Canada are.

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

52%

18 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of P8N’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.
AmenityWithinP8NCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk52%70%18 points lower than Canada60% 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 walk62%80%18 points lower than Canada52% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk15%45%29 points lower than Canada52% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk60%86%26 points lower than Canada82% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk56%71%15 points lower than Canada61% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk60%60%about the same as Canada27% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk29%28%about the same as Canada24% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive73%92%19 points lower than Canada88% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive92%98%7 points lower than Canada94% below it

0% of P8N’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.

Air quality

nearest station
No local reading:

The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Thunder Bay, 301 km from P8N. 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 P8N. 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.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Dryden MillDryden · Pulp and Paperinside this area23incl. dioxins/furans2,713 t
DRYDEN COMP STNn/a · Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storageinside this area166 t

Together these facilities reported 2,779 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 · provincial figures
Read this first:

These figures describe the whole of Ontario — a province or territory — not P8N. 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.
MeasureOntarioCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index57.275.024% lower than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index74.997.223% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index50.666.824% lower than Canada
Weighted clearance rate39.8%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.
ViolationsOntarioCanadaCompared
All violations4,582 per 100,0006,065 per 100,00024% lower than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic4,296 per 100,0005,585 per 100,00023% lower than Canada
Violent Criminal Code1,078 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00025% lower than Canada
Property crime2,600 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00017% 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.
YearOntarioCanada
201161.277.6
201259.075.5
201352.668.9
201449.966.9
201551.070.4
201653.372.0
201756.373.6
201860.375.6
201960.979.7
202055.473.9
202156.074.9
202258.878.7
202361.581.3
202461.078.8
202557.275.0

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 P8N?
No. P8N 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 P8N?
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 P8N 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 P8N?
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.