What's life like in your Postal Code? - Page 2

BIMBAM · #21 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 7:11 AM**

Mine's a bit odd as the neighbourhood pattern is 2 highstreets (4th and Broadway) with midrise mixed use apartment buildings (one of which I live in) with almost exclusively single family homes on the side streets. The census division includes one side of the street I live on and the single family homes north of me, including the waterfront mansions. I'm a student who lives modestly in an apartment, but share a census tract with famous multi-millionaires like David Suzuki. It's an eclectic neighbourhood! Many of the single family homes are cut up into apartments and many that aren't have basement suites, so despite much of the land being occupied by wealthy people, most of the people in the tract probably don't fit that demographic.

*****

Here's it is:

Some stats from Census 2011:

Population Density: 7,025.9 people/km2
Median Age: 38.8 (38.3 Male; 39.3 Female)

Of those over 15 years of age and older:

Married: 36.2%
Living in Common Law: 14%
Single: 38.4%
Other (Separated, Divorced, Widowed): 11%

Of those living in private households:

Two-person Families: 67.5%

Building types:

Single-family Detached: 8%
Apartment Building: 64%
Apartment - Duplex: 14%
Rowhouse (and other Attached): 13%

Most common mother tongues:

1. English
2. Chinese
3. German
4. Spanish

Knowledge of official languages:

English ONLY: 79.7%
French ONLY: 0%
English AND French: 19.5%

Language spoken most often at home:

English: 93%
French: 1%
Non-official Language: 6%[/QUOTE]

Nashe · #22 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 2:58 PM**

For a slice of rural SE NB in the heart of Acadia, some surprises:

Shediac Cape, NB

Population: 837
Land Area: 56.54km2
Population Density: 14.8 people/km2
Median Age: 46.3 (46.5 Male; 46.1 Female)

Of those over 15 years of age and older:
Married: 62.1% (520)
Living in Common Law: 9.5% (80)
Single: 15.5% (130)
Other (Separated, Divorced, Widowed): 8.9% (75)

Of those living in private households:
Two-person Families: 19.8%

Building types:
Single-family Detached: 94.1%
Apartment Building: 4.7%
Apartment - Duplex: 1.5%
Rowhouse (and other Attached): 0%

Most common mother tongues:
1. English (55.3%)
2. French (42.7%)
3. Spanish (0.6%)
4. German (0.6%)

Knowledge of official languages:
English ONLY: 41%
French ONLY: 2.9%
English AND French: 55.4%

Language spoken most often at home:
English: 64.5%
French: 35.4%
Non-official Language: 0%

I was a bit surprised by the language bits. It appears that a good portion of mother-tongue Francophones speak English at home. Someone (Acajack maybe?) was asking about the "Anglification" of Shediac a few weeks back, and this might be a clue. I haven't looked at the more populous areas (in Shediac proper) though.

HomeInMyShoes · #23 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 3:21 PM**

Okay, the Prizm Lookups are awesome. Karma for the post on that.

MonkeyRonin · #24 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:05 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

My census tract is tiny, possibly one of the smallest in the country.

How about this one in Parkdale? It's 0.01 sqkm with 0 inhabitants.

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-re...B1=All&Custom=

1overcosc · #25 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:23 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

One thing I've noticed is that once the density number gets up beyond, say, 4,000 people per km/sq, it's often the lower-density neighbourhoods that I like best. The ones with really high densities are occasionally really tight SFD or towers in the park, which I hate. But then you get ones like Toronto/Montreal, inner city neighbourhoods in any big Canadian one, that are great.

You'd love my neighbourhood, then. 8,000 people per square km, most people live in 2-5 story pre-war apartment buildings, and there's lots of low-rise row housing.

SignalHillHiker · #26 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:26 PM**

Yeah that sounds like perfection. Especially if there's still lots of commercial. I bet my neighbourhood would be over 6,000/km2 if it was fully residential.

1overcosc · #27 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by manny_santos

Here's mine for the midtown district of Kingston:

Population Density: 3,831.4/km2
Median Age: 31.4 (32.4 Male; 29.7 Female)
Population change (2006 to 2011) -6.3%

In this district, 18.7% of the population was between age 20 and 24 in 2011, which is not surprising considering its proximity to Queen's University. That drops to 12.7% between 25 and 29 and 8.4% from 30 to 35.

Keep in mind that a huge chunk of Queen's students do not show up in Kingston's census data. A technical team appointed by City Council whose data was verified by the OMB concluded that about three-quarters of Queen's students, or 19,000 people, are not accounted for in StatsCan data. This is important for municipal planning purposes, because those 19,000 people still use municipal services.

Notably, the OMB ordered the city to adjust all its population counts for municipal purposes upwards by 19,000, with rough estimates of the geographic distribution of those 19,000 within the city, for the sake of all municipal planning, including the drawing of electoral districts. The city is also ordered to do a detailed survey to determine the exact geographic distribution of those 19,000 people by 2018.

1overcosc · #28 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yeah that sounds like perfection. Especially if there's still lots of commercial. I bet my neighbourhood would be over 6,000/km2 if it was fully residential.

Decent amount of retail. Corner stores (superettes in NL, right?), are pretty much everywhere (at least 10 within a kilometer). Within 1km of my house I have Second Cup, Loblaws, Subway, at least 3 shawarma places, a liquor store, two rapid transit stations (including one future Confederation Line station). The Rideau Centre, Ottawa's primary A mall, is a 15 minute walk away. CBD is a 20-25 minute walk. It's one of Ottawa's hidden gems, in that its an affordable (for renting at least) neighbourhood right in the core.

No wonder its attracted so many youth. The area has a stereotype of being a University of Ottawa ghetto but there's actually not many uni students here, the young population is mostly single young professionals, like me, who aren't turned off by the idea of a university ghetto and want cheap urban housing. But precisely because the neighbourhood can't appeal much to those over 30, it remains affordable.

My move to Ottawa ended up being a lot more pleasant than I thought it would be, in part because this neighbourhood really satisfies me.

SignalHillHiker · #29 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:36 PM**

Yeah that sounds perfect.

Bcasey25raptor · #30 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 5:17 PM**

Strathcona Neighbourhood but just barely. I live at Prior and main st facing westward with a view of a bunch of highrises and parts of BC place.

I'm literally at the dividing line of 3 neighbourhoods.

Incomes here are among the lowest in urban Canada and my proximity is close to the Notorious DTES.

If I had to say what the life style here is, it's be a wash.

Usually I'd say this entire part of town is nothing but druggies, etc. But lately the area is becoming more eclectic as younger artsy people move in thanks to gentrification.

I am near chinatown and arguably Chinese is the most common language spoken here after English.

whatnext · #31 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 7:46 PM**

Am I missing something? It keeps giving me the whole City of Vancouver when I enter a postal code on the Statscan website.

manny_santos · #32 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 8:03 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1overcosc

Decent amount of retail. Corner stores (superettes in NL, right?), are pretty much everywhere (at least 10 within a kilometer). Within 1km of my house I have Second Cup, Loblaws, Subway, at least 3 shawarma places, a liquor store, two rapid transit stations (including one future Confederation Line station). The Rideau Centre, Ottawa's primary A mall, is a 15 minute walk away. CBD is a 20-25 minute walk. It's one of Ottawa's hidden gems, in that its an affordable (for renting at least) neighbourhood right in the core.

No wonder its attracted so many youth. The area has a stereotype of being a University of Ottawa ghetto but there's actually not many uni students here, the young population is mostly single young professionals, like me, who aren't turned off by the idea of a university ghetto and want cheap urban housing. But precisely because the neighbourhood can't appeal much to those over 30, it remains affordable.

My move to Ottawa ended up being a lot more pleasant than I thought it would be, in part because this neighbourhood really satisfies me.

If I move to Ottawa this year, I'll keep that area in mind.

1overcosc · #33 Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 8:27 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by whatnext

Am I missing something? It keeps giving me the whole City of Vancouver when I enter a postal code on the Statscan website.

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-re...dex.cfm?Lang=E. Click postal code. When the results show up, click the Census Tract--the one with the numbers.

BretttheRiderFan · #34 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 2:48 AM**

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/images/ma...0_570/5777.jpg

Population: 4,250

2006 to 2011 population change (%) 16.0

Total private dwellings 3,089

Land Area: 1.21 sq km

Median Age: 30.7

97.3% of the population are over 15

The majority are not married and not living with a common-law partner.

5 people live in single detached homes.

2,010 in apartments over 5 stories.

625 in apartments under 5 stories.

Average number of persons per household: 1.5

2,870 speak English as their mother tongue, 95 French, 1,185 non-official languages (The three largest responses for this were Chinese n.o.s., Cantonese and Mandarin, with many other languages garnering fewer than 100 responses each)

middeljohn · #35 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 3:23 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BretttheRiderFan

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/images/ma...0_570/5777.jpg

Population: 4,250

2006 to 2011 population change (%) 16.0

Total private dwellings 3,089

Land Area: 1.21 sq km

Median Age: 30.7

97.3% of the population are over 15

The majority are not married and not living with a common-law partner.

5 people live in single detached homes.

2,010 in apartments over 5 stories.

625 in apartments under 5 stories.

Average number of persons per household: 1.5

2,870 speak English as their mother tongue, 95 French, 1,185 non-official languages (The three largest responses for this were Chinese n.o.s., Cantonese and Mandarin, with many other languages garnering fewer than 100 responses each)

That population/density figure is gonna change dramatically over the next few years.

SignalHillHiker · #36 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 9:18 AM**

Quote:

5 people live in single detached homes.

Awesome.

Marty_Mcfly · #37 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 2:47 PM**

I'm just one neighbourhood over from SignalHillHiker, things are a little different over here. A lot less rowhouses, more single-detached homes, and low-income apartment blocks, with a few condos sprinkled in.

Population: 2712
Population Density: 1,830.6/km2

Largest age group: 20-24 years old (565 peoples)
Median age: 29.2

Married and/or common law: 860 people
Not married or common law/widowed/divorced: 1,535 people

Total number of dwellings: 1,095
Single-Detached house: 465 (42%)
Apartment building, 5+ storeys: 0 (0%)
Semi-detached house: 65 (6%)
Rowhouse: 215 (20%)
Apartment, duplex: 265 (24%)
Apartment, less than 5 storeys: 85 (8%)

Mother Tongue
Only English: 2,250
Only French: 10
Common other "only" responses: Bengali, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Nepali, and Sinhala

And for fun:

http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/pr...cluster-lookup

It's....kind of accurate. Weird.

SignalHillHiker · #38 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 3:01 PM**

(Your hood is called Freshwater Valley, BTW; at least, it was before ye students took it over).

It's accurate for mine as well, excluding the presence of First Nations. I've met a couple at the local, but you can basically pick any country on earth and St. John's will have more from there than our own First Nations.

The only caveat is Rabbittown is very ethnically diverse for St. John's... but we'd still clearly rank low on a national scale, so, that's fine.

Rabbittown Theatre Co. is defunct now, though, I believe. Its sign is still up?

Acajack · #39 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 3:11 PM**

Can't do the image but this is what they say about my district. It fits the area to a T pretty much except for the exurban part. We're fairly dense new suburbia in urban form.

Mini Van & Vin Rouge represents a collection of younger and middle-aged active families and couples who live in new exurban communities beyond Quebec's big cities. These upper-middle-class francophone households-more than half of which are bilingual-tend to consist of well-educated,
whitecollar professionals with pre-school and school-aged children engaged in energetic, kid-centred lifestyles. Residents score high for outdoor activities like bicycling, ice skating, skiing, hockey and soccer; family-friendly amusement parks and outdoor stages are also a big draw. For these fun
loving parents, a night out means going to a dance club, theatre or comedy club. At home, Mini Van & Vin Rouge families watch a lot of soaps, home décor shows and hockey games, but not during public events and family gatherings. Residents here take their family traditions and cultural events
seriously.

Marty_Mcfly · #40 Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 3:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

(Your hood is called Freshwater Valley, BTW; at least, it was before ye students took it over).

Rabbittown Theatre Co. is defunct now, though, I believe. Its sign is still up?

Yeah, I think somewhere in the transient population the name somehow got changed from Freshwater Valley to Summerville; Freshwater Valley is much nicer.

Where was Rabbittown Theatre Company? I don't believe I've ever seen the building.