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S0J

Saskatchewan — a rural forward sortation area

In plain English

S0J had a population of 50,642 in the 2021 Census in Saskatchewan. No census metropolitan area covers most of it. Its population density makes it a sparsely populated area.

There were 25,168 private dwellings across 205,672 km².

Median household income was 15% lower than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 10% lower than the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 18% higher than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 2.1× higher than the national figure.

Average household size was 17% 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 S0J covering 205,672 km², in Saskatchewan. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

The area

S0J · SK
Population, 2021

50,642

Saskatchewan · no metropolitan area covers most of this postal area

Counts for S0J, 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 dwellings25,168
Owner households10,825
Renter households2,505
Immigrants1,320
Land area205,672 km²

Compared with

Selected 2021 Census figures for S0J, against its province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
MeasureS0JSaskatchewanCanada
Median household income$71,000$82,000$84,000
Median after-tax income$65,500$73,000$73,000
Median age36.838.841.6
Unemployment rate12.2%8.4%10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)23.5%13.4%11.1%
Average household size2.82.52.4
Note:

No city comparison. S0J does touch the Prince Albert census metropolitan area, but only 1% of its residents live inside it. Comparing the whole area against Prince Albert 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

8%

63 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of S0J’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.
AmenityWithinS0JCanadaComparedIndex vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.1 km walk8%70%63 points lower than Canada96% 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 walk24%80%56 points lower than Canada89% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.1 km walk4%45%41 points lower than Canada96% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.1.5 km walk6%86%80 points lower than Canada99% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk21%71%50 points lower than Canada86% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.1.5 km walk51%60%9 points lower than Canada53% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.1.5 km walk4%28%24 points lower than Canada93% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.3 km drive16%92%76 points lower than Canada99% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.10 km drive39%98%59 points lower than Canada100% below it

0% of S0J’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 Prince Albert, 116 km from S0J. 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 S0J. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

16 facilities within 10 km of S0J 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 16 within 10 km of S0J, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
FacilityDistanceSubstancesReleased to air
Big River SawmillBig River · Wood Productsinside this area61,148 t
BUNGE CANADA - NIPAWIN PLANTNipawin · Other Manufacturing0.7 km6937 t
McClean Lake OperationsSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area20incl. dioxins/furans575 t
Rabbit Lake OperationSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area6439 t
Key Lake OperationSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area20435 t
Cigar Lake OperationSasktoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area8157 t
McIlvenna Bay ProjectSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area4154 t
McArthur River OperationSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area8125 t
SeabeeSaskatoon · Mining and Quarryinginside this area19101 t
Athabasca System Hydroelectric Stationsc/o Nipawin Hydro Station · Electricityinside this area5incl. dioxins/furans28 t
HBMS Flin Flon Metallurgical ComplexFlin Flon · Mining and Quarrying2.3 km320 t
Island Falls Power StationSandy Bay · Electricityinside this area33 t

All 16 facilities within 10 km — including the 4 not listed above — together reported 4,128 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 Saskatchewan — a province or territory — not S0J. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

146.6

Saskatchewan · 95% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Saskatchewan, 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.
MeasureSaskatchewanCanadaCompared
Crime Severity Index146.675.095% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index194.397.2100% higher than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index128.866.893% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate41.1%36.6%4.4 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.
ViolationsSaskatchewanCanadaCompared
All violations13,139 per 100,0006,065 per 100,0002.2× higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic11,938 per 100,0005,585 per 100,0002.1× higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code2,582 per 100,0001,443 per 100,00079% higher than Canada
Property crime5,941 per 100,0003,141 per 100,00089% higher than Canada
Crime Severity Index for Saskatchewan (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was about the same as in 2011 — 146.6 against 143.6. 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.
YearSaskatchewanCanada
2011143.677.6
2012138.875.5
2013126.568.9
2014125.066.9
2015138.370.4
2016151.472.0
2017143.673.6
2018141.475.6
2019150.779.7
2020144.173.9
2021150.074.9
2022156.578.7
2023162.181.3
2024154.478.8
2025146.675.0

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 S0J?
No. S0J 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 Saskatchewan rather than for S0J?
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 S0J means Saskatchewan. 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 S0J?
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.