Toronto's civic data community
This is one project among many, and it stands on the others. Where another tool does something
well, we link to it instead of rebuilding it. Here are the ones worth knowing.
Everything here is built on the City of Toronto's open data. We reuse open
tools (DuckDB, Observable Framework) and open boundaries, and we credit the people doing this work.
Building something? Civic Tech Toronto meets weekly, come add yours.
Start with the City
The source. 500+ datasets and the catalogue everything here is built from.
The City's own neighbourhood indicator explorer: pick indicators, see a map, graph and table.
Census 2021 for all 158 neighbourhoods and 25 wards.
Public-safety datasets, maps and reports from the Toronto Police Service.
Built by the community
Volunteer-built tool to follow and influence Toronto City Council.
Interactive maps of Canadian census data, by MountainMath.
An R package for pulling the City's open data, by Sharla Gelfand.
Focused explorers for single themes: 311, parking, TTC delays, procurement, geo concordances.
People and newsletters
City Hall Watcher newsletter and the Council Scorecard: how every councillor has voted since 2010.
toronto-bids: a nightly archive of City and TTC procurement, sole-source awards and suspended firms.
Toronto Budget Visualizer: operating budgets 2011 to 2026, inflation and per-dwelling adjusted.
Civic Lens: council agendas, minutes and votes across Canadian municipalities, with plain-language email alerts.
The Green Line: ward explainers and election guides for Toronto.
WardWatch: ward and candidate profiles built from council data.
A daily git-scraped copy of Toronto's lobbyist registry.
Community reports of bike parking across the city.
Research & catalogues
Urban research and the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue.
Get involved
The weekly meetup where a lot of this gets built. Everyone is welcome.
The City's own running list of projects built on Toronto open data, with many more than fit here.
Know a Toronto data project that should be on this list? Bring it to
Civic Tech Toronto and we'll add it.