G0A vs G7A

Quebec

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 G0A and G7A, 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	G0A	G7A	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$81,000	$104,000	$84,000	G0A is 22% lower than G7A
Median after-tax income	$69,500	$86,000	$73,000	G0A is 19% lower than G7A
Median age	45.6	40.8	41.6	G0A is 12% higher than G7A
Unemployment rate	6.1%	4.6%	10.3%	G0A is 33% higher than G7A
Low income (LIM-AT)	8.6%	4.3%	11.1%	G0A is 2.0× higher than G7A
Average household size	2.3	2.5	2.4	G0A is 8% lower than G7A

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	G0A	G7A
Median household income	12% higher than Quebec	36% higher than Québec
Median after-tax income	10% higher than Quebec	31% higher than Québec
Median age	6% higher than Quebec	6% lower than Québec
Unemployment rate	20% lower than Quebec	28% lower than Québec
Low income (LIM-AT)	28% lower than Quebec	52% lower than Québec
Average household size	about the same as Quebec	19% higher than Québec

G0A is measured against Quebec: the nearest metropolitan area, Québec, holds 50% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
G7A is measured against Québec, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	G0A	G7A
Province	Quebec	Quebec
Population	83,411	25,429
Private dwellings	42,396	10,423
Land area	11,122 km²	95 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	G0A	G7A
Grocery store	1 km walk	48%	66%
Public transit	1 km walk	2%	97%
Park	1 km walk	46%	83%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	14%	35%
Child care	1.5 km walk	76%	95%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	45%	70%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	6%	22%
Library	1.5 km walk	6%	20%
Health care	3 km drive	87%	99%
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.

What tenants pay, from CMHC’s survey of purpose-built rental buildings. The two areas may sit in different survey zones, or one may not be surveyed at all — that is a coverage fact and is stated rather than left blank.
Unit	G0A	G7A
Studio	$760	$998
1 bedroom	$964	$1,254
2 bedrooms	$1,411	$1,300
3+ bedrooms	$1,376	$1,543

Only 50% of G0A's residents live inside a CMHC survey zone. These figures describe those zones — they are not a rent for the rest of this area, which CMHC does not survey.

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.

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	G0A	G7A
Nearest AQHI station	Quebec · 14 km	Quebec · 15 km
Current reading	not shown	not shown
Reporting facilities within 10 km	48	32
Reported releases to air	40,690 t	7,351 t

G0A: Quebec, 14 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
G7A: Quebec, 15 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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.

G0A in full · G7A 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.