Live dashboard
Indicator dashboard
Thirty-six indicators arranged into six panels. Each panel opens with the headline measures, then shows the series behind them. Filters narrow the view by settlement size; every chart keeps its own data table and can be operated by keyboard.
Summary
The six measures most often requested by readers, with direction of travel over the last full year.
All residents counted in the reference period.
Units reported finished in the last four quarters.
Linked passenger trips across fourteen reporting systems.
Share of residential waste kept out of landfill.
Households in an area offered 50/10 Mbps service.
Median wait for a routine appointment at reporting public services.
Population and households
How many people live here, how they are distributed by age, and how many households they form.
Net interprovincial movement sums to zero nationally by construction; it matters only at the provincial level, where it is shown separately in the topic collection.
Half the population is older, half younger.
Occupied private dwellings divided by household population.
The most common household type since 2016.
Bands follow the standard reporting groups so the series stays comparable with agency publications.
Shares total to 100 per cent. Household type is recorded at the dwelling level and does not describe family relationships beyond the dwelling.
Housing
Supply reaching the market, the mix of what is built, and the two affordability measures most often quoted.
Foundations begun in the last four quarters.
Units reported finished.
Open projects at the reference date.
Start to completion, apartment structures.
Starts and completions describe different moments in the same pipeline. In a period of lengthening build times the two series can move in opposite directions for several years without either being wrong.
Vacancy describes availability in purpose-built rental stock only. Rent-to-income describes the median renter household and says nothing about the distribution around it.
Subsidised renting covers households in units where rent is set below market by a programme, regardless of who owns the building.
Transportation
Service supplied, trips taken, and the shifting mix of ways people reach work.
Linked trips, fourteen systems.
Scheduled revenue vehicle hours.
Physically separated from motor traffic.
One-way, all modes, employed residents.
Service hours held up better than boardings through 2020 and 2021 because most systems maintained schedules for essential travel. Reading recovery from boardings alone overstates how much the network changed.
Working at home is counted as a commuting category, not as an absence of commuting, which is why the shares still total 100 per cent.
Kilometres are counted per direction of travel. A two-way protected lane on one street counts twice, which is how the reporting municipalities record it.
Environment
Conditions measured at fixed stations, plus the household-level measures that people can act on.
Index in the low band at monitoring stations.
Leaf-on imagery, urban boundary.
Kept out of landfill.
Programme-supported upgrades.
Each dot is a calendar day at the national station composite. Days in the moderate or high bands are left unfilled; a single wildfire episode can account for most of them.
Only municipalities that reported in all five years are included, so the series describes a fixed group rather than the country as a whole.
Technology and connectivity
What service is offered, what is actually delivered, and how public services are reached.
Service offered in the area.
Same standard, rural areas only.
Measured at the household, all technologies.
Used a public service online in the last year.
Availability means a provider offers the service in that area. It does not mean a household has subscribed, can afford it, or receives the advertised speed at peak hours.
The two measures are not opposites: many people use an online service and still prefer another channel for anything complicated, which is why the bars can exceed 100 per cent together.
Territorial figures rest on a small number of service areas, so a single infrastructure project can move a territory by several points in one year.
Public services
Capacity and use across the services people encounter most often.
In-person branch visits.
Ages 0 to 5, licensed spaces.
Routine appointment, reporting services.
Staffed public service counters.
Digital sessions include catalogue searches, so a single visit can generate several. The two series answer different questions and should not be added together.
Spaces are counted where they are licensed, not where children live, so commuter areas can show a surplus that families do not experience.
Four cautions
Comparability across panels
Panels draw on different sources with different reference dates. Two panels on this page can describe the same year and still disagree slightly, because one counts at mid-year and the other at year end. Where that happens the panel note says so.
Revisions are normal
Statistical agencies revise. A figure that changes after publication is usually a sign the process is working. Revised values carry a marker and the previous value stays in the revision log.
Small denominators
Territories and small municipalities have small populations. Rates built on them move sharply for reasons that have nothing to do with policy. Read the count alongside the rate.
Nothing here is a forecast
Every series ends at the last observed period. We do not extend lines forward, and a rising series is not a prediction that it will keep rising.