Canadian Census Geographies

You can use Geocodio to find the Census dissemination areas, tracts, economic regions, and more in bulk given an address or latitude/longitude coordinate pair.

You can download an example of the results when you add data from Statistics Canada to a list of addresses or coordinates with Geocodio here. You can see a tutorial for adding Statistics Canada geographies here.

Geocodio returns the following Canadian Census boundaries:

• Dissemination Area
  • Dissemination Area ID
• Dissemination Block
  • Dissemination Area ID
  • Population
• Census Tract Code
• Division
  • Division ID
  • Division Name
  • Division Type Abbreviation
  • Division Type Description
• Consolidated Subdivision
  • Consolidated Subdivision ID
  • Consolidated Subdivision Name
• Subdivision
  • Subdivision ID
  • Subdivision Name
  • Subdivision Type Abbreviation
  • Subdivision Type Description
• Economic Region
• Statistical Area
  • Statistical Area Code
  • Statistical Area Code Description
  • Statistical Area Type
  • Statistical Area Type Description
• Census Metropolitan Area or Census Agglomeration
  • CMA ID
  • CMA Name
  • CMA Type
  • CMA Type Description
• Census Year (Currently 2021)

Address and Coordinate Formats

Note that Canadian addresses must be accompanied by "Canada" given exactly, whether as a column in the spreadsheet (multi-column format) or in the address (single-column format). See examples here.

Geocodio API for Address or Coordinate to Statistics Canada Geographies

If you'd prefer to use an API to single or batch lookup Canadian Census geographies, you can see Geocodio's technical documentation here.

Cost

Requests are billed as geocode + StatCan info (i.e., two lookups). For example, if you have 100 addresses that you want StatCan boundaries for, that would count as 200 lookups.

You can calculate how much this will cost you and how long it will take here. Note that prices are in USD.