P4N vs P4R

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 P4N and P4R, 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	P4N	P4R	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$73,500	$116,000	$84,000	P4N is 37% lower than P4R
Median after-tax income	$65,000	$99,000	$73,000	P4N is 34% lower than P4R
Median age	42.8	43.6	41.6	P4N is about the same as P4R
Unemployment rate	8.9%	7.6%	10.3%	P4N is 17% higher than P4R
Low income (LIM-AT)	13.3%	7.4%	11.1%	P4N is 80% higher than P4R
Average household size	2.2	2.6	2.4	P4N is 15% lower than P4R

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	P4N	P4R
Population	24,098	4,795
Private dwellings	11,932	1,820
Land area	292 km²	928 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	P4N	P4R
Grocery store	1 km walk	84%	67%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	0%
Park	1 km walk	76%	62%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	44%	34%
Child care	1.5 km walk	95%	63%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	97%	41%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	88%	41%
Library	1.5 km walk	51%	0%
Health care	3 km drive	100%	84%
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	P4N	P4R
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	P4N	P4R
Nearest AQHI station	Sudbury · 221 km	Sudbury · 223 km
Current reading	not shown	not shown
Reporting facilities within 10 km	6	7
Reported releases to air	959 t	1,487 t

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.
P4R: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Sudbury, 223 km from P4R. 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.

P4N in full · P4R 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.