S6V vs S6W

Saskatchewan

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 S6V and S6W, 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	S6V	S6W	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$75,500	$81,000	$84,000	S6V is 7% lower than S6W
Median after-tax income	$68,000	$71,000	$73,000	S6V is about the same as S6W
Median age	36	60	41.6	S6V is 40% lower than S6W
Unemployment rate	11%	0%	10.3%	not comparable
Low income (LIM-AT)	16.2%	9.5%	11.1%	S6V is 71% higher than S6W
Average household size	2.5	2	2.4	S6V is 25% higher than S6W

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	S6V	S6W
Median household income	about the same as Prince Albert	about the same as Prince Albert
Median after-tax income	about the same as Prince Albert	about the same as Prince Albert
Median age	about the same as Prince Albert	65% higher than Prince Albert
Unemployment rate	about the same as Prince Albert	100% lower than Prince Albert
Low income (LIM-AT)	5% higher than Prince Albert	38% lower than Prince Albert
Average household size	about the same as Prince Albert	20% lower than Prince Albert

S6V is measured against Prince Albert, the metropolitan area holding 98% of its residents.
S6W is measured against Prince Albert, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	S6V	S6W
Province	Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan
Population	42,147	288
Private dwellings	17,131	166
Land area	2,864 km²	1.9 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	S6V	S6W
Grocery store	1 km walk	75%	69%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	0%
Park	1 km walk	76%	100%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	41%	47%
Child care	1.5 km walk	81%	100%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	54%	21%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	78%	100%
Library	1.5 km walk	0%	0%
Health care	3 km drive	84%	100%
Employment	10 km drive	92%	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 S6V or S6W. 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	S6V	S6W
Nearest AQHI station	Prince Albert · 3.0 km	Prince Albert · 5.4 km
Current reading	not shown	not shown
Reporting facilities within 10 km	2	1
Reported releases to air	11 t	10 t

S6V: Prince Albert, 3.0 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
S6W: Prince Albert, 5.4 km away, is the nearest Air Quality Health Index location, but no current reading could be retrieved from Environment and Climate Change 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.

S6V in full · S6W 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.