Rural Canada Housing Profiles for Provinces and Census Subdivisions

Statistics Canada provides counts of residential properties, owner-assessed values, and total living area. The data covers rural areas across Canadian provinces, territories, and census subdivisions. The dataset is licensed under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling rural property value trends based on owner-assessed values.
• Analyzing housing density and stock based on counts of residential properties.
• Estimating average living space per property based on total living area data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Covers multiple geographic levels: provinces, territories, and census subdivisions.
• Includes multiple property metrics: counts, assessed values, and living area.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 12:49:46.609815; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rural Canada, provinces and territories and census subdivisions