N0P vs N8A

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 N0P and N8A, 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	N0P	N8A	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$80,000	$64,500	$84,000	N0P is 24% higher than N8A
Median after-tax income	$71,500	$59,600	$73,000	N0P is 20% higher than N8A
Median age	46	48	41.6	N0P is about the same as N8A
Unemployment rate	8.8%	11.1%	10.3%	N0P is 21% lower than N8A
Low income (LIM-AT)	10.2%	15.2%	11.1%	N0P is 33% lower than N8A
Average household size	2.4	2.3	2.4	N0P is about the same as N8A

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	N0P	N8A
Median household income	12% higher than Chatham-Kent	10% lower than Chatham-Kent
Median after-tax income	10% higher than Chatham-Kent	8% lower than Chatham-Kent
Median age	about the same as Chatham-Kent	about the same as Chatham-Kent
Unemployment rate	18% lower than Chatham-Kent	about the same as Chatham-Kent
Low income (LIM-AT)	16% lower than Chatham-Kent	26% higher than Chatham-Kent
Average household size	about the same as Chatham-Kent	about the same as Chatham-Kent

N0P is measured against Chatham-Kent, the metropolitan area holding 75% of its residents.
N8A is measured against Chatham-Kent, the metropolitan area holding 97% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	N0P	N8A
Province	Ontario	Ontario
Population	53,140	12,624
Private dwellings	23,162	5,765
Land area	2,849 km²	359 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	N0P	N8A
Grocery store	1 km walk	39%	57%
Public transit	1 km walk	32%	58%
Park	1 km walk	46%	81%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	15%	9%
Child care	1.5 km walk	45%	81%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	38%	79%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	40%	79%
Library	1.5 km walk	32%	46%
Health care	3 km drive	63%	90%
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	N0P	N8A
Studio	not published	not surveyed
1 bedroom	$1,190	not surveyed
2 bedrooms	$1,617	not surveyed
3+ bedrooms	$1,576	not surveyed

CMHC does not survey a rental zone covering N8A, so only N0P has a figure. The column is empty because the survey does not reach that area, not because rents there are lower.

Only 16% of N0P'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	N0P	N8A
Nearest AQHI station	Chatham · 11 km	Chatham · 28 km
Current reading	1.22 — Low risk	1.22 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	39	7
Reported releases to air	4,673 t	2,643 t

N0P: Measured at Chatham, 11 km from N0P. The index runs from 1 upward and combines ozone, fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide into one health-risk scale.
N8A: Measured at Chatham, 28 km from N8A. 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.

N0P in full · N8A 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.