Here is a list of helpful resources for geospatial (GIS) and numeric data pertaining to Toronto that is open to the public.
Theme |
Resource Link |
Format and File Extension |
Temporal Extent |
Details and Usage |
Administrative and Political Boundaries Crime Economy Education Employment Facilities/Services Health Housing Income Industry Labour Occupation Population and Demography Structures Transportation |
CSV |
2008 |
Evaluate community wellbeing across Toronto’s neighbourhoods on a number of factors such as crime, facilities, services, transportation, and housing using a map visualization tool where results can be downloaded as a map, tables, and graphs Please read this guide for a quick tutorial on navigating Wellbeing Toronto |
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CSV |
N/A |
Explore a variety of spatial and tabular datasets pertaining to the city's population, infrastructure, and services Projection: WGS84, MTM3 |
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Economy Education Employment Industry Labour Occupation Population and Demography |
Excel (.xlsx) |
2011 |
Access detailed data and information on Toronto’s economy, labour force and demographics Coverage: CMA of Toronto |
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Excel (.xlsx) |
2002–2016 |
The Labour Force Survey is a household survey carried out monthly by Statistics Canada. Access data on major labour market trends, such as shifts in employment across industrial sectors, hours worked, labour force participation and unemployment rates Coverage: City of Toronto, CMA of Toronto, and more |
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Administrative and Political Boundaries Crime Traffic |
Shapefile (.shp) |
2004–2016 |
Explore a variety of spatial datasets on reported crime, traffic, boundary files and budget |
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Elevation |
FiLTer (.flt) |
2002 |
Three-dimensional raster data set representing a continuous elevation surface Notes This is a large file comprised of several tiles |
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Health |
TXT |
1973 |
Explore data collected from the records of 18 full-time and part-time coroners from in and around the metropolitan Toronto area |
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Health Homelessness |
Webpage |
2007–present |
Explore statistics on the deaths of residents or recent residents of Toronto shelters |