City of Toronto municipal data

Data access

Full access to our resources is available to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Waterloo. To request access, please complete the Ask-Us form indicating the specific layers (shapefiles) you require. Upon completion of the data release agreement form, the dataset will be provided to you via OneDrive.

In-person consultations may also be requested through the Ask-Us form.

Description

This collection of data products provides topographic and municipal planning information for the area encompassed by the City of Toronto. This data were provided to the Geospatial Centre by the City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre between 2003 -2025. The City of Toronto also has current open data available from their website.

Data resources for the City of Toronto

Aboriginal Services
Accessible Stalls
Address Point
Affordable Rental Housing Pipeline
Air Conditioned and Cool Spaces
Ambulance Station Locations
Arechaelogical Potential
Areas
Automated Speed Enforcement Locations
Basement Flooding Study Areas
Basic incidents Details from 2023 onward
Buildings with Heights (2023)
Bicycle and Micromobility Cordon Count 2022
Bicycle Parking
Bicycle Shops
Bicycle Thefts
Bicycle Thefts
Bikeways
BLT Active Surveillance Results
Bodysafe
Bridges Structure
Building Outlines
Building Asset Inventory
Business Improvement Areas
Café TO Locations
Centreline
Centreline Intersection
Centreline Streets (includes streets, rivers, creeks, ramps, hydro lines, laneways, railways, shorelines, trails, walkways) (data type: shapefiles)
Childcare Centres
Childcare Safe Inspection Results
City of Toronto Free Public Wifi
City Operated Electric Vehicle Charging Station Map
City Wards
Clothing Drop-Box Locations
Community Centres
Community Council Boundaries
Community Housing
Contours (data type: shapefiles)
Contributing Areas
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
COVID-19 Testing Sites
CREM Public Washrooms
Cultural Hotspot Point of Interest
Cycling network
Distribution Watermain
Downsview (Watermain, Community Recreation Centre, Districts, Major Streets and Green Spine, Parks)
EarlyON Child and Family Centres Locations
Edge of Road
Edge of Roadway

Environmentally Significant Areas
Fire Hydrants
Fire Station Locations
Former Municipal Boundary
Generalized Digital Terrain Model (DTM) (data type: AutoCAD DWG and ASCII)
Green Spaces
Green Streets Map
Health Services
Historical Bike Trails
Homicides
Indoor Ice Rinks
Inspection Results
Litter Bin Collection Frequency
Locations
Long Term Care Locations
Major Crime Indicators
Motor Vehicle Collisions with KSI Data
Municipality boundaries
Music Locations
Neighbourhood Improvement Areas
Neighbourhood Crime Rates
Neighbourhoods
Off Leash Areas
On-Street Permit Parking Area Map
Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks
Park and Recreation Facility Projects
Park and Recreation Facility Study Areas
Parking Lot
Parking Zone Overlay
Parks and Recreation Facilities
Parks Drinking Fountains
Patrol Zones
Pedestrian Crossover
Pedestrian Network
Places of Interest and Attractions
Places of Worship
Points of Interest
Poles
Police Boundaries Data
Police Facility Locaitons
PollinateTO Primary Project Garden Locaitons
Poster Board
Poster Structure
Presto Card Access
Properties Requiring a Cultural Heritage Evaluation Report Under OPA 720
Property Boundaries
Property Data Maps (PDM) 2011 - 2018 (data type: AutoCAD DWG)
Property Parcels (data type: shapefile)
Public Art
Public Washrooms
Publicaiton Structure

Railway
Red light cameras
Renewable Energy Installations
Retirement Homes
River Locations
Road Reconstruction Program
Road Resurfacing Program
School Locations
School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program
Secondary Plans
Sewer (Inlets, Junctions, Manholes, Outfalls, Pressurized Main)
Shooting Firearm Discharges
Sidewalk Construction Program
Sidewalks
Sign Bylaw Districts
Site and Area Specific Policies
SolarTO Map
Stationary Sign Locations
Stations
Street bicycle parking
Street Furniture (Bench, Bicycle parking, Information pillar, Litter receptacle)
Street Trees
StrollTO POI Details
StrollTO Starting Points
Swimsafe
TCDSB - Schools
Temporary Extension and Special Occasion Permit Endorsement for Liquor Licences
Tennis Court Facilities
Theft From Motor Vehicles
Topographic Maping Poles
Topographic Sidewalk
Toronto Signature Sites
Toronto Beaches Water Quality
Toronto Fire Services Run Areas
Toronto Public Library (TPL) Branch General Information
Traffic (Beacon, Calming, Cameras, Collitions, Control Devices)
Transit Shelter
Transmission Watermain
Voting Locations (2023)
Voting Subdivisons (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2023)
Ward and Elected Councillor
Washroom Facilities
Water (Fitting, Hydrant, Line, Pressure District Boundaries, Valve)
Zoning (Area, Building Setback, Height, Lot Coverage, Policy Area, Policy Road, Priority Retail Street, Queen St W Eat Community, Rooming Housing)

Spatial reference and data type

These data sets are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. Centre line streets are also available in Modified Transverse Mercator (MTM) zone 10, (NAD) 27. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. A data release agreement must be agreed to before these licensed data can be released. The City of Toronto Geospatial Competency Centre must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.

Citation

City of Toronto Municipal Data [computer file]. Toronto, Ontario: City of Toronto, Geospatial Competency Centre. [2018].