{"id":324,"date":"2026-03-16T00:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:43:50","slug":"different-postal-code-areas-forward-sortation-areas-the-first-3-characters-like-l6p-l6r-etc-brampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/numerology\/different-postal-code-areas-forward-sortation-areas-the-first-3-characters-like-l6p-l6r-etc-brampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Different postal code areas (Forward Sortation Areas \u2014 the first 3 characters like L6P, L6R, etc.) Brampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"921e2fbc-b86a-4ec7-ac7b-a8a20f1a6a9b\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"240\"><strong data-start=\"12\" data-end=\"139\"> many different postal code <em data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"52\">areas<\/em> (Forward Sortation Areas \u2014 the first 3 characters like L6P, L6R, etc.) Brampton uses<\/strong>, there are about <strong data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"163\">10<\/strong> distinct FSA codes assigned to the city of Brampton, Ontario. These include:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"266\"><strong data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"266\">Common Brampton FSAs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"382\">\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss2f6\" data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"274\">\n<p data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"274\">L6P<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss0qo\" data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"282\">\n<p data-start=\"277\" data-end=\"282\">L6R<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16srzy9\" data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"290\">\n<p data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"290\">L6S<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss5s6\" data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"298\">\n<p data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"298\">L6T<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss43o\" data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"306\">\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"306\">L6V<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss3b9\" data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"314\">\n<p data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"314\">L6W<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss956\" data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"322\">\n<p data-start=\"317\" data-end=\"322\">L6X<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss8cr\" data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"330\">\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"330\">L6Y<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"16ss7go\" data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"338\">\n<p data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"338\">L6Z<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"h4k2jz\" data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"382\">\n<p data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"382\">L7A<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"799\">Each of these FSAs covers a broad area of the city and within each FSA there can be <strong data-start=\"468\" data-end=\"535\">hundreds or even thousands of complete 6-character postal codes<\/strong> (like \u201cL6P 3B7\u201d). So if you were asking about total <em data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"598\">specific<\/em> postal codes (all the 6-character ones), the number is far larger \u2014 but for general city addressing, counting the primary FSA prefixes, Brampton has about <strong data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"760\">10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-row-reverse\">\n<div class=\"border-token-bg-primary bg-token-bg-primary flex items-center overflow-clip rounded-full -ms-1.5 first:me-0 border-2 group-hover\/footnote:border-token-bg-tertiary relative\">\n<div class=\"relative inline-block shrink-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>many different postal code areas (Forward Sortation Areas \u2014 the first 3 characters like L6P, L6R, etc.) Brampton uses, there are about 10 distinct FSA codes assigned to the city&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numerology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manishpanchhal.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}