P0N vs P4N

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 P0N and P4N, 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	P0N	P4N	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$90,000	$73,500	$84,000	P0N is 22% higher than P4N
Median after-tax income	$78,000	$65,000	$73,000	P0N is 20% higher than P4N
Median age	40	42.8	41.6	P0N is 7% lower than P4N
Unemployment rate	8.4%	8.9%	10.3%	P0N is 6% lower than P4N
Low income (LIM-AT)	10.7%	13.3%	11.1%	P0N is 20% lower than P4N
Average household size	2.3	2.2	2.4	P0N is about the same as P4N

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	P0N	P4N
Population	9,435	24,098
Private dwellings	4,472	11,932
Land area	1,655 km²	292 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	P0N	P4N
Grocery store	1 km walk	48%	84%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	0%
Park	1 km walk	74%	76%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	22%	44%
Child care	1.5 km walk	46%	95%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	61%	97%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	29%	88%
Library	1.5 km walk	34%	51%
Health care	3 km drive	89%	100%
Employment	10 km drive	99%	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	P0N	P4N
studio	not surveyed	not surveyed
1	not surveyed	not surveyed
2	not surveyed	not surveyed
3plus	not surveyed	not surveyed

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	P0N	P4N
Nearest AQHI station	Sudbury · 222 km	Sudbury · 221 km
Current reading	not shown	not shown
Reporting facilities within 10 km	14	6
Reported releases to air	1,994 t	959 t

P0N: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Sudbury, 222 km from P0N. That is far enough to be a different airshed, so its reading is not shown here as though it described this area. The index is published for about 130 communities and zones, not continuously across Canada.
P4N: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Sudbury, 221 km from P4N. That is far enough to be a different airshed, so its reading is not shown here as though it described this area. The index is published for about 130 communities and zones, not continuously across 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.

P0N in full · P4N 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.