T0J vs T1A

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 T0J and T1A, 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	T0J	T1A	Canada	Difference
Median household income	$83,000	$65,500	$84,000	T0J is 27% higher than T1A
Median after-tax income	$73,500	$59,200	$73,000	T0J is 24% higher than T1A
Median age	40.4	45.2	41.6	T0J is 11% lower than T1A
Unemployment rate	10.5%	14%	10.3%	T0J is 25% lower than T1A
Low income (LIM-AT)	12.7%	13.7%	11.1%	T0J is 7% lower than T1A
Average household size	2.5	2.1	2.4	T0J is 19% higher than T1A

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	T0J	T1A
Median household income	14% lower than Alberta	18% lower than Medicine Hat
Median after-tax income	11% lower than Alberta	17% lower than Medicine Hat
Median age	5% higher than Alberta	8% higher than Medicine Hat
Unemployment rate	9% lower than Alberta	23% higher than Medicine Hat
Low income (LIM-AT)	38% higher than Alberta	30% higher than Medicine Hat
Average household size	about the same as Alberta	9% lower than Medicine Hat

T0J is measured against Alberta: the nearest metropolitan area, Medicine Hat, holds 15% of its residents, which is too little for it to describe this area.
T1A is measured against Medicine Hat, the metropolitan area holding 100% of its residents.

Counts for each area. These describe the place and are not compared as ratios.
Measure	T0J	T1A
Province	Alberta	Alberta
Population	50,752	24,982
Private dwellings	20,564	12,341
Land area	37,637 km²	1,585 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	T0J	T1A
Grocery store	1 km walk	29%	87%
Public transit	1 km walk	0%	92%
Park	1 km walk	41%	94%
Pharmacy	1 km walk	5%	67%
Child care	1.5 km walk	41%	92%
Primary school	1.5 km walk	34%	83%
Secondary school	1.5 km walk	26%	77%
Library	1.5 km walk	30%	19%
Health care	3 km drive	45%	96%
Employment	10 km drive	77%	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	T0J	T1A
Studio	not published	not surveyed
1 bedroom	$1,470	not surveyed
2 bedrooms	$1,805	not surveyed
3+ bedrooms	$2,014	not surveyed

CMHC does not survey a rental zone covering T1A, so only T0J has a figure. The column is empty because the survey does not reach that area, not because rents there are lower.

Only 11% of T0J'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	T0J	T1A
Nearest AQHI station	Brooks · 54 km	Medicine Hat · 0.9 km
Current reading	not shown	2.88 — Low risk
Reporting facilities within 10 km	392	33
Reported releases to air	44,232 t	13,738 t

T0J: The nearest Air Quality Health Index location is Brooks, 54 km from T0J. 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.
T1A: Measured at Medicine Hat, 0.9 km from T1A. 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.

T0J in full · T1A 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.