E3C vs E6B

New Brunswick

This page does not pick a winner. Every row shows two measurements and the gap between them. There is no score, no tally of which area “wins” more categories, and no overall result — those would be a rating of two places and the people who live in them, assembled by the layout.

Both areas are forward sortation areas, and every figure describes the whole of one. Crime is not shown here: it is reported at the metropolitan level, so for two areas in the same city it is usually the same number twice. It is on each area’s own page, with the geography it describes.

Selected 2021 Census figures for E3C and E6B, with the national figure for scale. The last column states the gap between the two areas as a direction and a size, never as a preference.
Measure	E3C	E6B	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$102,000	$61,200	$84,000	E3C is 67% higher than E6B
Median after-tax income	$86,000	$57,200	$73,000	E3C is 50% higher than E6B
Median age	43.6	51.2	41.6	E3C is 15% lower than E6B
Unemployment rate	6.4%	16.5%	10.3%	E3C is 61% lower than E6B
Low income (LIM-AT)	5.2%	20.6%	11.1%	E3C is 75% lower than E6B
Average household size	2.5	2.3	2.4	E3C is 9% higher than E6B

How each area sits against the city or province around it — a different geography on each side, named in every cell. Read down a column, not across: the two columns are measured against different places and a bigger gap in one says nothing about the other.
Measure	E3C	E6B
Median household income	29% higher than Fredericton	13% lower than New Brunswick
Median after-tax income	25% higher than Fredericton	8% lower than New Brunswick
Median age	6% higher than Fredericton	9% higher than New Brunswick
Unemployment rate	21% lower than Fredericton	60% higher than New Brunswick
Low income (LIM-AT)	55% lower than Fredericton	45% higher than New Brunswick
Average household size	9% higher than Fredericton	about the same as New Brunswick

E3C is measured against Fredericton, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.
E6B is measured against New Brunswick: the nearest metropolitan area, Fredericton, holds 27% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	E3C	E6B
Province	New Brunswick	New Brunswick
Population	12,321	1,574
Private dwellings	5,018	740
Land area	153 km²	1,629 km²

Share of each area’s residents with an amenity within reach, weighted by where people live. A blank is a coverage fact, not a zero.
Amenity	Within	E3C	E6B
Grocery store	1 km walk	29%	14%
Public transit	1 km walk	30%	0%
Park	1 km walk	40%	14%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	7%	14%
Child care	1.5 km walk	89%	38%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	21%	18%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	0%	18%
Library	1.5 km walk	0%	18%
Health care	3 km drive	95%	25%
Employment	10 km drive	100%	100%

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.

CMHC does not survey a rental zone covering either E3C or E6B. The survey covers centres of 10,000 people and up, so there is nothing published for either area.

The air quality index is a reading at the nearest station, which may be far away — the distance is shown because it decides whether the reading describes the area at all. Facility counts are reported releases within 10 km.
Measure	E3C	E6B
Nearest AQHI station	Fredericton · 5.6 km	Fredericton · 37 km
Current reading	1 — Low risk	1 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	7	0
Reported releases to air	165 t	not reported

E3C: Measured at Fredericton, 5.6 km from E3C. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.
E6B: Measured at Fredericton, 37 km from E6B. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.
Facilities report to the National Pollutant Release Inventory only above published thresholds, so a count of none means none reported — not that nothing is emitted.

This page carries the figures the two areas can be set against each other on. Each area’s own page has the rest — including crime, the boundary map, and every source note and caveat in full.

E3C in full · E6B in full

Source: Census Profile, 2021 Census (98-401-X). Data current as of 2026-08-12. Statistics Canada Open Licence. Each figure describes a whole forward sortation area. Amenity, rent and air figures carry their own sources and vintages on the area pages.