J0L vs J3L

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 J0L and J3L, 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	J0L	J3L	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$86,000	$100,000	$84,000	J0L is 14% lower than J3L
Median after-tax income	$73,000	$84,000	$73,000	J0L is 13% lower than J3L
Median age	40	40.4	41.6	J0L is about the same as J3L
Unemployment rate	5%	4.6%	10.3%	J0L is 9% higher than J3L
Low income (LIM-AT)	7.5%	5.6%	11.1%	J0L is 34% higher than J3L
Average household size	2.4	2.5	2.4	J0L is about the same as J3L

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	J0L	J3L
Median household income	19% higher than Quebec	32% higher than Montréal
Median after-tax income	16% higher than Quebec	28% higher than Montréal
Median age	7% lower than Quebec	about the same as Montréal
Unemployment rate	34% lower than Quebec	45% lower than Montréal
Low income (LIM-AT)	37% lower than Quebec	53% lower than Montréal
Average household size	9% higher than Quebec	9% higher than Montréal

J0L is measured against Quebec: the nearest metropolitan area, Montréal, holds 38% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
J3L is measured against Montréal, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	J0L	J3L
Province	Quebec	Quebec
Population	83,316	53,680
Private dwellings	34,423	21,567
Land area	1,274 km²	165 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	J0L	J3L
Grocery store	1 km walk	56%	63%
Public transit	1 km walk	41%	93%
Park	1 km walk	71%	87%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	22%	31%
Child care	1.5 km walk	81%	95%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	60%	66%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	16%	11%
Library	1.5 km walk	12%	12%
Health care	3 km drive	89%	100%
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	J0L	J3L
Studio	$1,167	not published
1 bedroom	$1,335	$1,273
2 bedrooms	$1,429	$1,473
3+ bedrooms	$1,541	$1,725

Only 38% of J0L'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	J0L	J3L
Nearest AQHI station	Montréal · 23 km	Montréal · 29 km
Current reading	not shown	not shown
Reporting facilities within 10 km	81	29
Reported releases to air	22,080 t	462 t

J0L: Montréal, 23 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
J3L: Montréal, 29 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.

J0L in full · J3L 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.