Nunavut Radon Map: Every Home Health Canada Tested, and What It Read

11 homes across Nunavut were long-term tested for radon in the two federal surveys. Every one is a dot on this map, coloured by what it read, with the number of tested homes printed beside every district figure.

The Map

Every dot is one tested house. Zoom in for street names. Shaded districts had no home tested in either survey.

under 100100 to 147148 to 199200 and aboveno homes tested

11 measurements shown. Dot positions inside a district are illustrative, not addresses. The survey records which district a home was in, never where it stood. Tap any dot for its reading, or any district for its count and median. Rural districts here cover thousands of square kilometres, so a dot in one says very little about any particular corner of it.

Built from Health Canada's published measurements under the Open Government Licence. We do not sell radon testing or mitigation.

What the Numbers Say

of tested Nunavut homes at or above Canada's 200 Bq/m³ action level

median reading, Bq/m³

highest single reading, in X0C

On 11 tested homes this is too small a sample to rank. For scale, of the 33 places mapped with a hundred or more, Halifax is highest at 35.2% of tested homes at or above the action level and Toronto and the GTA lowest at 2.2%. The spread between houses on one street is bigger than the spread between any two of them.

The Number Changes Depending on Whose Limit You Use

Canada acts at 200 Bq/m³. The United States EPA acts at about 148. The World Health Organization sets a reference level of 100. Applied to the same 11 homes:

at or above Canada's 200

at or above the US EPA's 148

at or above the WHO's 100

Same houses, same measurements. Why the three numbers differ, and which one to use.

By Postal District, with the Sample Sizes Shown

Read the count column before the median column. A district resting on four houses is a hint, not a verdict, and those rows are greyed. The land area column matters too: a district covering ten thousand square kilometres is an average across a region, not a neighbourhood.

District	Land km²	Homes tested	Median	Highest
X0C	414,245	7	25	41
X0B	452,361	3	22	24
X0A	970,388	1	15	15

0 districts have ten or more tested homes, which is where these figures start to mean something.

What Actually Settles It

Nothing on this page describes your house. Radon varies enormously between homes on the same street, because it depends on how each building sits on and draws air from the ground beneath it. The highest reading here is 41 Bq/m³ and it sits in a district whose median is far below it. A long-term test in your own home is the only measurement that tells you anything about your home.

Also: the other city and province maps, and what radon actually is.

Sources and method. Radon measurements: Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes pooled with the Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes 2009-2011, both under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Boundaries: Statistics Canada 2021 cartographic forward sortation area file, same licence. Percentages are calculated from the individual measurements shown, not quoted from a summary. Land areas are from the Statistics Canada boundary file.