T0A vs T8N

Alberta

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 T0A and T8N, 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	T0A	T8N	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$88,000	$117,000	$84,000	T0A is 25% lower than T8N
Median after-tax income	$78,000	$100,000	$73,000	T0A is 22% lower than T8N
Median age	40.4	42.4	41.6	T0A is about the same as T8N
Unemployment rate	10.1%	9.1%	10.3%	T0A is 11% higher than T8N
Low income (LIM-AT)	11.2%	4.9%	11.1%	T0A is 2.3× higher than T8N
Average household size	2.6	2.6	2.4	T0A is about the same as T8N

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	T0A	T8N
Median household income	8% lower than Alberta	22% higher than Edmonton
Median after-tax income	6% lower than Alberta	19% higher than Edmonton
Median age	5% higher than Alberta	13% higher than Edmonton
Unemployment rate	12% lower than Alberta	24% lower than Edmonton
Low income (LIM-AT)	22% higher than Alberta	44% lower than Edmonton
Average household size	about the same as Alberta	about the same as Edmonton

T0A is measured against Alberta: the nearest metropolitan area, Edmonton, holds 21% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
T8N is measured against Edmonton, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	T0A	T8N
Province	Alberta	Alberta
Population	57,940	68,213
Private dwellings	27,641	27,014
Land area	36,759 km²	48 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	T0A	T8N
Grocery store	1 km walk	25%	56%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	96%
Park	1 km walk	34%	98%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	14%	25%
Child care	1.5 km walk	26%	98%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	22%	81%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	24%	65%
Library	1.5 km walk	26%	7%
Health care	3 km drive	36%	100%
Employment	10 km drive	72%	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	T0A	T8N
Studio	not published	not published
1 bedroom	$1,147	$1,659
2 bedrooms	$1,487	$1,939
3+ bedrooms	not published	$1,874

Only 21% of T0A'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	T0A	T8N
Nearest AQHI station	Lamont County · 76 km	St. Albert · 0.7 km
Current reading	not shown	1.85 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	217	36
Reported releases to air	97,824 t	4,894 t

T0A: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Lamont County, 76 km from T0A. 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.
T8N: Measured at St. Albert, 0.7 km from T8N. 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.

T0A in full · T8N 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.