Neighbourhoods

"Toronto’s 158 neighbourhoods are a microcosm of the city’s inhabitants, cultures and life. The primary purpose of the City-designated social planning neighbourhoods is to help City staff collect data, plan, analyze and forecast City services. While these neighbourhoods may not fully encompass every historical neighbourhood area, they do provide a way for planners and researchers to track information about them over time.\r\nThe neighbourhood profiles were developed to help government and community agencies with their local planning, by providing socio-economic data at a meaningful geographic area. Unlike other geographies like wards or dissemination blocks, the boundaries of these social planning neighbourhoods change very infrequently over time, allowing researchers to perform longitudinal studies to see the changes in each area. Not all people define neighbourhoods the same way, but for the purposes of statistical reporting these neighbourhoods were defined based on Statistics Canada census tracts.

For more information visit our About Toronto's Neighbourhoods page."

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset Category Map
Refresh Rate As available
Collection Method
Excerpt Boundaries of Toronto Neighbourhoods.
Limitations
Owner Division Social Development, Finance & Administration
Owner Section
Owner Unit
Owner Email spar@toronto.ca
Author Email spar@toronto.ca
Maintainer Email spar@toronto.ca
Author spar@toronto.ca
Civic Issues
Formats
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  • JSON
  • GEOJSON
  • GPKG
Topics Locations and mapping
Source
Information URL www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/neighbourhoods-communities/neighbourhood-profiles/about-toronto-neighbourhoods/
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Last Updated 2022-06-27 14:59:30.142638
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Date Published 2019-07-23 17:47:38.364157