statistics canada open data

Geographic boundaries and classification data for Designated Places (DPL) across Canadian provinces, including official names and dissemination identifiers used by Statistics Canada.

1,685 features

Geographic boundaries and identifiers for Dissemination Blocks across Canada. These represent the smallest standard geographic areas for which all census data are disseminated by Statistics Canada, covering all provinces and territories.

498,547 features

Geographic boundary data for Census Tracts (CT) across Canada, including standard Statistics Canada identifiers such as Dissemination Geography Unique Identifiers (DGUID) and Province IDs.

6,247 features

Geographic boundaries for Aggregate Dissemination Areas (ADAs) across Canada, representing stable geographic units used by Statistics Canada for the 2021 Census dissemination.

5,433 features

Geographic boundaries and administrative identifiers for Canada's census divisions, including names, types, and provincial associations based on Statistics Canada's Standard Geographical Classification.

293 features

Provinces and Territories of the Canada, 2021. 10 provinces + 3 territories. Fields: PRUID, DGUID, PRNAME, PRENAME, PRFNAME, PREABBR, PRFABBR, LANDAREA. Verified 206 application/x-zip-compressed, 133,730,024 bytes — huge for 13 features; full-resolution coastline.

13 features

Geographic boundaries and classification data for population centres across Canada, including unique identifiers for provinces and specific urban areas.

1,030 features

Geographic boundaries and identifiers for Canada's Forward Sortation Areas (FSAs), representing the first three characters of postal codes across all provinces and territories.

1,643 features

Federal Electoral Districts of the Canada, 2023. PUBLISHER/SCHEMA EXCEPTION — read before processing. Publisher is ELECTIONS CANADA (hosted by NRCan), not StatCan; licence is Open Government Licence – Canada (open.canada.ca record 18bf3ea7-1940-46ec-af52-9ba3f77ed708, license_id ca-ogl-lgo): copy, modify, publish, distribute. Elections Canada specifies NO attribution string, so the OGL fallback applies. CHOSEN OVER StatCan's lfed000b21a_e.zip (which IS live, 206) because that file is the OBSOLETE 2013 Representation Order (338 seats); the 2023 Rep Order (343, proclaimed 2023-09-22) is current and was used for the 2025 general election, so real joins will be against 343. SCHEMA BREAK: fields are FED_NUM (LONG), ED_NAMEE(100), ED_NAMEF(100), REP_ORDER(4) — there is NO FEDUID, NO FEDNAME, and NO DGUID, so this type does NOT fit the CA-DGUID code_scheme and anything assuming StatCan field names will break. FED_NUM is an integer, not a zero-padded string. CRS CONFLICT UNRESOLVED: the ArcGIS REST layer reports EPSG:3978, but the technical guide's parameters (false easting 6200000, northing 3000000, central meridian -91°52', SP 49/77) match EPSG:3347 instead — read the .prj at convert, do not assume. Single geometry variant, no carto/digital split; 9,388,965 bytes (Last-Modified 2024-12-17), already generalised. Verified 206 application/zip.

343 features

Geographic boundaries and identifiers for Canadian Economic Regions (ER), including provincial associations and spatial geometry for mapping.

76 features

Dissemination Areas of the Canada, 2021. 57,932 CARTOGRAPHIC (not 57,936 — 4 DAs entirely in coastal water are excluded; the digital file has 57,936). This is the one level where StatCan explicitly documents the carto/digital delta. Fields: DAUID(8), DGUID, LANDAREA, PRUID — NO name, NO parent IDs. Verified 206, 197,042,003 bytes.

57,932 features

Census Subdivisions of the Canada, 2021. Municipalities and equivalents. Fields: CSDUID(7), DGUID, CSDNAME(100), CSDTYPE(3), LANDAREA, PRUID. No underscore after 'lcsd'. Verified 206, 155,981,521 bytes.

5,161 features

Geographic boundaries and administrative identifiers for Census Consolidated Subdivisions (CCS) across Canada, including provincial and dissemination area codes.

1,757 features

Census Agricultural Regions of the Canada, 2021. Fields: CARUID(4), DGUID, CARENAME(50), CARFNAME(50), LANDAREA, PRUID. NO single CARNAME column — English/French are separate. Verified 206, 136,732,193 bytes.

72 features

HVAC service contractors in Calgary.

188 features

Geographic boundaries and classification data for Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) and Census Agglomerations across Canada, including province identifiers and area types.

156 features

Full-time students as a proportion of total population at LSOA level in Bristol.

268 features

Higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations (NS-SEC L1, L2, L3) as a share of all usual residents aged 16+ by LSOA.

268 features