Do these figures describe a specific address in V9M?

No. V9M 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 British Columbia rather than for V9M?

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 V9M means 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 V9M?

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.

V9M

British Columbia

V9M had a population of 18,470 in the 2021 Census in Courtenay. Its population density makes it a suburban area.

There were 8,389 private dwellings across 29 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 30% 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 32% lower than the national figure.

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

The boundary of forward sortation area V9M covering 29 km², in Courtenay, British Columbia. The outline marks the whole postal area; it is not a street-level boundary.

Population, 2021

18,470

British Columbia · mostly Courtenay

Counts for V9M, 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	8,389
Owner households	6,455
Renter households	1,590
Immigrants	2,170
Land area	29 km²

Selected 2021 Census figures for V9M, against its city, province and Canada. A blank comparison means the figure was not published for that geography.
Measure	V9M	Courtenay	British Columbia	Canada
Median household income	$83,000	$76,500	$85,000	$84,000
Median after-tax income	$74,500	$69,000	$76,000	$73,000
Median age	54	50.8	42.8	41.6
Unemployment rate	8.1%	8%	8.4%	10.3%
Low income (LIM-AT)	7.5%	10.3%	10.8%	11.1%
Average household size	2.2	2.2	2.4	2.4

Median household income in V9M is about the same as the national figure.
Median after-tax income in V9M is about the same as the national figure.
Median age in V9M is 30% higher than the national figure.
Unemployment rate in V9M is 21% lower than the national figure.
Low income (LIM-AT) in V9M is 32% lower than the national figure.
Average household size in V9M 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

45%

25 points lower than the national share of 70%

Share of V9M’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	V9M	Canada	Compared	Index vs Canada
Grocery storeSupermarkets and general-line grocery retailers.	1 km walk	45%	70%	25 points lower than Canada	76% below it
Public transitA transit stop, weighted by how many trips serve it.	1 km walk	88%	66%	22 points higher than Canada	86% below it
ParkNeighbourhood parks and green space.	1 km walk	82%	80%	about the same as Canada	26% below it
PharmacyPharmacies and drug stores.	1 km walk	18%	45%	27 points lower than Canada	71% below it
Child careLicensed child care facilities.	1.5 km walk	77%	86%	9 points lower than Canada	79% below it
Primary schoolPrimary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	68%	71%	4 points lower than Canada	49% below it
Secondary schoolSecondary education facilities. Proximity only — not a measure of any school.	1.5 km walk	72%	60%	12 points higher than Canada	28% below it
LibraryPublic libraries.	1.5 km walk	12%	28%	16 points lower than Canada	61% below it
Health careDoctors, clinics and other health facilities.	3 km drive	100%	92%	8 points higher than Canada	63% below it
EmploymentJobs, weighted by how many are at each location.	10 km drive	100%	98%	about the same as Canada	86% below it

8% of V9M’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.

Air Quality Health Index at Comox 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	Comox Valley
Distance from V9M	4.3 km
Reading	1 — Low risk
Highest forecast	3

Measured at Comox Valley, 4.3 km from V9M. 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 V9M. 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.
Facility	Distance	Substances	Released to air
Plant # 5Cumberland · Petroleum and Coal Product Refining and Mfg.	6.3 km	3	14 t
Comox Valley Water Pollution Control CentreComox · Water and Wastewater Systems	inside this area	2	13 t
19 Wing ComoxLazo · Other (Except Manufacturing)	inside this area	1	0 t

Together these facilities reported 26 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 British Columbia — a province or territory — not V9M. Police-reported crime is not published for postal areas anywhere in Canada.

Crime Severity Index, 2025

92.4

British Columbia · 23% higher than the national index of 75.0

Severity indexes for 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	British Columbia	Canada	Compared
Crime Severity Index	92.4	75.0	23% higher than Canada
Violent Crime Severity Index	98.0	97.2	about the same as Canada
Non-violent Crime Severity Index	90.9	66.8	36% higher than Canada
Weighted clearance rate	23.0%	36.6%	13.6 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	British Columbia	Canada	Compared
All violations	7,643 per 100,000	6,065 per 100,000	26% higher than Canada
Criminal Code, excluding traffic	6,943 per 100,000	5,585 per 100,000	24% higher than Canada
Violent Criminal Code	1,531 per 100,000	1,443 per 100,000	6% higher than Canada
Property crime	3,839 per 100,000	3,141 per 100,000	22% higher than Canada

Crime Severity Index for British Columbia (solid) against Canada (dashed), 2011 to 2025. In 2025 it was lower than in 2011 — 92.4 against 96.7. 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.
Year	British Columbia	Canada
2011	96.7	77.6
2012	94.5	75.5
2013	87.7	68.9
2014	90.2	66.9
2015	92.7	70.4
2016	91.7	72.0
2017	87.1	73.6
2018	88.7	75.6
2019	104.0	79.7
2020	97.0	73.9
2021	96.4	74.9
2022	100.3	78.7
2023	104.6	81.3
2024	93.9	78.8
2025	92.4	75.0

V9M is not inside a metropolitan area that publishes crime figures, so the comparison is against British Columbia as a whole.
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 V9M?: No. V9M 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 British Columbia rather than for V9M?: 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 V9M means 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 V9M?: 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.