Do these figures describe a specific address in V4W?

No. V4W 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 Vancouver, British Columbia rather than for V4W?

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 V4W means Vancouver, British Columbia. 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 V4W?

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.

V4W

British Columbia

V4W had a population of 21,246 in the 2021 Census in Vancouver. Its population density makes it a small-town or exurban area.

There were 7,646 private dwellings across 94 km².

Median household income was 18% higher than the national figure.

Median after-tax household income was 21% higher than the national figure.

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

The unemployment rate was 50% lower than the national figure.

The share of people in low income (LIM-AT) was 31% lower than the national figure.

Average household size was 21% higher than the national figure.

The boundary of forward sortation area V4W covering 94 km², in Vancouver, British Columbia. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

21,246

British Columbia · mostly Vancouver

Counts for V4W, 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	7,646
Owner households	5,575
Renter households	1,705
Immigrants	3,480
Land area	94 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for V4W, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	V4W	Vancouver	British Columbia	Canada
Median household income	$99,000	$90,000	$85,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$88,000	$79,500	$76,000	$73,000
Median age	40.8	40.8	42.8	41.6
Unemployment rate	5.2%	8.6%	8.4%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	7.7%	11.1%	10.8%	11.1%
Average household size	2.9	2.5	2.4	2.4

Median household income in V4W is 18% higher than the national figure.
Median after-tax income in V4W is 21% higher than the national figure.
Median age in V4W is about the same as the national figure.
Unemployment rate in V4W is 50% lower than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in V4W is 31% lower than the national figure.
Average household size in V4W is 21% higher 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

54%

17 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of V4W’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	V4W	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	54%	70%	17 points lower than Canada	57% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	44%	66%	22 points lower than Canada	85% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	65%	80%	15 points lower than Canada	54% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	40%	45%	4 points lower than Canada	28% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	80%	86%	6 points lower than Canada	47% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	64%	71%	7 points lower than Canada	35% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	45%	60%	15 points lower than Canada	47% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	76%	28%	48 points higher than Canada	9.1× the national index
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	92%	92%	about the same as Canada	86% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	73% below it

21% of V4W’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.

V4W sits inside one CMHC survey zone, Langley City and Langley DM.

Average rent paid in Vancouver's survey zones covering V4W (CMHC, October 2025), against average asking rent across Vancouver (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	$1,354	very good (b)	$2,000
1 bedroom	$1,765	excellent (a)	$2,290
2 bedrooms	$2,211	excellent (a)	$3,100
3+ bedrooms	$2,810	very good (b)	$4,110

Reliability is CMHC’s own code for how much the sample supports the figure, from excellent to use with caution. Where several zones cover V4W, 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 Central Fraser Valley

Low risk · 9:00 AM PDT 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	Central Fraser Valley
Distance from V4W	17 km
Reading	2 — Low risk
Highest forecast	5

Measured at Central Fraser Valley, 17 km from V4W. 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 9:00 AM PDT 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 V4W. Distance is measured from the edge of the postal area, so a facility inside it shows as inside this area.

22 facilities within 10 km of V4W 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 22 within 10 km of V4W, 2024, in tonnes. Quantities are estimated and reported by the facilities themselves.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Langley Plant - FoamLangley · Plastics and Rubber	7.8 km	1	213 t
Airfoam Industries Ltd.Surrey · Plastics and Rubber	8.9 km	1	195 t
COLUMBIA KITCHEN CABINETS - ABBOTSFORDAbbotsford · Other Manufacturing	7.3 km	9	122 t
Cox QuarryAbbotsford · Mining and Quarrying	9.5 km	4	122 t
Kingspan Insulated Panels Ltd.Langley · Other Manufacturing	inside this area	4	106 t
Bypass Bakery LangleyLangley · Other Manufacturing	6.7 km	1	97 t
WonderBrands LangleyLangley · Other Manufacturing	inside this area	1	82 t
Lafarge Canada, Inc., GVA Aggregates, Central PitAbbotsford · Mining and Quarrying	8.9 km	3	57 t
Langley PlantLangley · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals	9.0 km	3	51 t
Northwest Langley Wastewater Treatment PlantTownship of Langley · Water and Wastewater Systems	9.3 km	2	14 t
Aldergrove Sand PlantAbbotsford · Cement, Lime and Other Non-Metallic Minerals	2.7 km	2	6 t
Cintas LangleyLangley · Other (Except Manufacturing)	inside this area	2	3 t

All 22 facilities within 10 km — including the 10 not listed above — together reported 1,071 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 Vancouver, British Columbia — a metropolitan area — not V4W. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

83.5

Vancouver, British Columbia · 11% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for Vancouver, British Columbia, 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	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	83.5	75.0	11% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	80.7	97.2	17% lower than Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	85.4	66.8	28% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	19.0%	36.6%	17.6 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	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Compared
All violations	6,290 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	4% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	5,672 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	about the same as Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,090 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	24% lower than Canada
Property crime	3,366 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	7% higher than Canada

Crime Severity Index for Vancouver, British Columbia (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 83.5 against 95.8. 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	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada
2011	95.8	77.6
2012	94.4	75.5
2013	89.1	68.9
2014	94.3	66.9
2015	94.3	70.4
2016	92.7	72.0
2017	86.7	73.6
2018	85.5	75.6
2019	95.2	79.7
2020	88.5	73.9
2021	86.9	74.9
2022	92.3	78.7
2023	88.9	81.3
2024	82.3	78.8
2025	83.5	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 V4W?: No. V4W 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 Vancouver, British Columbia rather than for V4W?: 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 V4W means Vancouver, British Columbia. 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 V4W?: 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.