P0S vs P6A

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 P0S and P6A, 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	P0S	P6A	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$85,000	$78,000	$84,000	P0S is 9% higher than P6A
Median after-tax income	$74,000	$69,500	$73,000	P0S is 6% higher than P6A
Median age	50	47.2	41.6	P0S is 6% higher than P6A
Unemployment rate	12%	13%	10.3%	P0S is 8% lower than P6A
Low income (LIM-AT)	9.7%	11.4%	11.1%	P0S is 15% lower than P6A
Average household size	2.3	2.2	2.4	P0S is about the same as P6A

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	P0S	P6A
Median household income	7% lower than Ontario	5% higher than Sault Ste. Marie
Median after-tax income	7% lower than Ontario	about the same as Sault Ste. Marie
Median age	20% higher than Ontario	about the same as Sault Ste. Marie
Unemployment rate	about the same as Ontario	about the same as Sault Ste. Marie
Low income (LIM-AT)	about the same as Ontario	about the same as Sault Ste. Marie
Average household size	12% lower than Ontario	about the same as Sault Ste. Marie

P0S is measured against Ontario: the nearest metropolitan area, Sault Ste. Marie, holds 25% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
P6A is measured against Sault Ste. Marie, the metropolitan area holding 97% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	P0S	P6A
Province	Ontario	Ontario
Population	10,170	33,800
Private dwellings	6,839	16,498
Land area	13,261 km²	537 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	P0S	P6A
Grocery store	1 km walk	30%	51%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	0%
Park	1 km walk	29%	49%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	0%	30%
Child care	1.5 km walk	31%	82%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	34%	66%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	29%	69%
Library	1.5 km walk	20%	23%
Health care	3 km drive	50%	95%
Employment	10 km drive	94%	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.

CMHC does not survey a rental zone covering either P0S or P6A. The survey covers centres of 10,000 people and up, so there is nothing published for either area.

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	P0S	P6A
Nearest AQHI station	Sault Ste. Marie · 60 km	Sault Ste. Marie · 4.8 km
Current reading	not shown	1.06 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	16	14
Reported releases to air	10,654 t	11,303 t

P0S: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Sault Ste. Marie, 60 km from P0S. 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.
P6A: Measured at Sault Ste. Marie, 4.8 km from P6A. 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.

P0S in full · P6A 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.