L0L vs L4M

Ontario

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 L0L and L4M, 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	L0L	L4M	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$106,000	$87,000	$84,000	L0L is 22% higher than L4M
Median after-tax income	$92,000	$76,500	$73,000	L0L is 20% higher than L4M
Median age	46.8	38	41.6	L0L is 23% higher than L4M
Unemployment rate	11%	12.6%	10.3%	L0L is 13% lower than L4M
Low income (LIM-AT)	6.7%	10%	11.1%	L0L is 33% lower than L4M
Average household size	2.7	2.5	2.4	L0L is 8% higher than L4M

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	L0L	L4M
Median household income	16% higher than Ontario	10% lower than Barrie
Median after-tax income	16% higher than Ontario	10% lower than Barrie
Median age	13% higher than Ontario	5% lower than Barrie
Unemployment rate	10% lower than Ontario	about the same as Barrie
Low income (LIM-AT)	34% lower than Ontario	30% higher than Barrie
Average household size	about the same as Ontario	7% lower than Barrie

L0L is measured against Ontario: the nearest metropolitan area, Barrie, holds 44% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
L4M is measured against Barrie, the metropolitan area holding 96% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	L0L	L4M
Province	Ontario	Ontario
Population	42,022	46,902
Private dwellings	19,252	19,372
Land area	1,058 km²	78 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	L0L	L4M
Grocery store	1 km walk	30%	91%
Public transit	1 km walk	3%	96%
Park	1 km walk	37%	93%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	10%	58%
Child care	1.5 km walk	51%	96%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	23%	84%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	23%	88%
Library	1.5 km walk	16%	15%
Health care	3 km drive	88%	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	L0L	L4M
Studio	not published	not surveyed
1 bedroom	$1,310	not surveyed
2 bedrooms	$1,507	not surveyed
3+ bedrooms	$1,244	not surveyed

CMHC does not survey a rental zone covering L4M, so only L0L has a figure. The column is empty because the survey does not reach that area, not because rents there are lower.

Only 2% of L0L'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	L0L	L4M
Nearest AQHI station	Barrie · 8.4 km	Barrie · 3.7 km
Current reading	1.03 — Low risk	1.03 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	43	11
Reported releases to air	2,847 t	488 t

L0L: Measured at Barrie, 8.4 km from L0L. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.
L4M: Measured at Barrie, 3.7 km from L4M. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.

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.

L0L in full · L4M 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.