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Method

Where this site's data comes from

Every figure on Hamilton For Rent comes from a named public dataset with a licence that permits reuse. This page lists all of them, what each one covers, how current it is — and the data this site deliberately refuses to publish.

9 datasets265 indexable pages

What is peculiar about Hamilton's public data

Two things make Hamilton’s public data awkward, and both are handled explicitly here. The City files much of the lower city as directional planning units — Kirkendall North and Kirkendall South, Crown Point East and West — which are administrative halves rather than places anyone lives in separately; those are joined back together, and the page says which units it covers. And the amalgamated communities of Ancaster, Dundas and Stoney Creek have their own City boundaries at a different scale from a downtown neighbourhood, so they appear at the scale the City actually publishes.

The Ministry’s school file is the other rough edge. It carries programme sites — summer schools, night schools, care and treatment placements — alongside neighbourhood schools, and it publishes school website addresses that in Hamilton’s case are largely out of date. Both are filtered, and both filters are counted below.

What this site publishes

157
School profiles
157 indexed
95
Neighbourhood pages
95 indexed
244
Licensed child care records
201 placed on the map
15
Core research pages

Datasets

Source, licence, the year the data describes, and how often the publisher refreshes it.

School information and student demographics, 2024–2025

2024–2025 school year

Ontario Ministry of Education

Per-school records keyed by the Ministry's Board School Identification (BSID) number: name, board, type, level, grade range, address, enrolment, coordinates, EQAO achievement (% of students meeting the provincial standard) and the Ministry's published student-demographic indicators. Values are shown exactly as published; suppressed cells (NA, N/D, SP) are shown as 'not published'.

Refreshed:
Annual (the Ministry lists the dataset as updated monthly; a new school year is added once a year)
Retrieved:
September 4, 2026

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Ontario public school contact information, August 2026

August 2026

Ontario Ministry of Education

Used to confirm each school is currently in the Ministry directory, and for the special-condition flag that separates community schools from program sites (summer, night, continuing-education, care/treatment and remote programs), plus e-mail, fax and date-opened.

Refreshed:
Monthly
Retrieved:
September 4, 2026

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Licensed child care facilities in Ontario, July 2026

31 July 2026 snapshot

Ontario Ministry of Education

Licence-level records (site name, licensee, program type, program options, language, status, address). The file carries no coordinates; a facility is placed on a map only when its civic address matches a point in the municipality's own open address register.

Refreshed:
Monthly
Retrieved:
September 4, 2026

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

EQAO provincial assessment results, 2024–2025

2024–2025

Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)

The province-wide percentage of students meeting the standard, shown beside each school's own result as neutral reference context. English- and French-language systems are reported separately by EQAO and are compared like with like.

Refreshed:
Annual (results released each autumn)

CMHC average rents for areas with a population of 10,000 and over (Table 34-10-0133-01)

October 2023, 2024 and 2025 surveys

Statistics Canada (data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's Rental Market Survey)

Average monthly rent of occupied purpose-built rental units in row and apartment structures of three or more units, by bedroom type, for the census metropolitan area named in each table. Not asking rents, not condominium or secondary-suite rents, and never a school- or neighbourhood-level figure.

Refreshed:
Annual (each survey is released in the following winter)
Retrieved:
September 4, 2026

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0133-01 (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey). Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Census 2021 — shelter cost and tenure by census subdivision (Tables 98-10-0254-01 and 98-10-0255-01)

2021 Census (May 2021)

Statistics Canada

Counts of renter households, subsidized-housing renters and renters spending 30% or more of income on shelter, and the median/average monthly shelter cost of renter households, for the municipality (census subdivision). Shelter cost includes rent plus utilities and is not comparable to an advertised rent.

Refreshed:
Every five years

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2021 (Tables 98-10-0254-01 and 98-10-0255-01). Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Census 2021 — dissemination-area profiles

2021 Census

Statistics Canada

Population, renter share, median age, household size, low-income rate and household income for the dissemination areas whose centroid falls inside a neighbourhood's municipal boundary, summed or population-weighted. A neighbourhood inherits no figure from outside its boundary; suppressed StatCan values stay unpublished.

Refreshed:
Every five years

Source: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. Adapted under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

City of Hamilton Open Data — Neighbourhoods (planning units), Parks, HSR Bus Stops, Libraries, Recreation and Community Centres, Addresses

Layers as published (edit dates recorded per layer in the raw manifest)

City of Hamilton

Neighbourhood names and boundaries are the City's planning units. Where the City splits a neighbourhood into directional units (Kirkendall North and South), the page covers their union; Ancaster, Dundas and Stoney Creek use the City's community boundary. Parks, transit stops, libraries and recreation centres are counted inside the boundary, and listed by straight-line distance to its centroid.

Refreshed:
Continuous; refetched on each data build

Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton's Open Data Licence

What this site does not publish

These sites are operated by a brokerage, and the brokerage's own product holds real-estate listing data. None of it crosses into these pages — the data pipeline refuses it, and the build fails if any of it appears.

This site publishes public rental research: school, neighbourhood, census and rent-survey data from government sources. It does not display real-estate listings, prices or availability. Current rentals are shown on DistrictIQ.
ExcludedWhy
listPriceDerived from real-estate listing data
previousListPriceDerived from real-estate listing data
daysOnMarketDerived from real-estate listing data
soldPriceDerived from real-estate listing data
leasedPriceDerived from real-estate listing data
medianRentDerived from real-estate listing data — DistrictIQ's asking-rent medians
medianPriceDerived from real-estate listing data
activeListingsDerived from real-estate listing data — inventory counts
leaseCountDerived from real-estate listing data
photosDerived from real-estate listing data
remarksDerived from real-estate listing data — brokerage remarks
listingHistoryDerived from real-estate listing data
catchmentStatsDerived from real-estate listing data — listing-derived catchment statistics
communityCentroidDerived from real-estate listing data — DistrictIQ's app/data/community-centroids.json is the median of listing coordinates
communityDemographicsDerived from real-estate listing data — DistrictIQ samples census DAs at listing coordinates
mapboxGeocodeProvenance or reuse rights not established — Coordinates produced by a commercial geocoder (DistrictIQ childcare + 16 schools) — redistribution rights not established
catchmentPolygonProvenance or reuse rights not established — Board attendance boundaries — licence terms not recorded; DistrictIQ-only product surface
guelphNeighbourhood2013Provenance or reuse rights not established — An unlicensed Guelph layer (WDG Public Health working file) — richer but excluded

The rule is enforced in code: every field emitted into this site’s data files must be declared reusable in the project’s source manifest, and an automated test scans the built pages, structured data and sitemaps for the excluded shapes.

Pages this site chose not to create

Where a name exists but the public data does not support a page, there is no page. The reasons are listed here rather than hidden.

Schools

37 excluded

  • 12 — Care/Treatment Facility programme site
  • 10 — Continuing Education programme site
  • 6 — Summer programme site
  • 3 — program by name (Ministry condition says "Not applicable", but the name describes an alternative/continuing-education programme rather than a neighbourhood school)
  • 2 — not in the current Ministry directory
  • 2 — program site, not a community school Alternative programme site
  • 1 — Cust/Correctional Facility programme site
  • 1 — Remote School programme site

Neighbourhoods

23 excluded

  • 19 — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • 3 — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
  • 1 — feed spelling duplicate of Stipley (City spelling: Stipeley)
Every excluded Hamilton neighbourhood name, with its reason
  • Airport Employment Area — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
  • Binbrook — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Carlisle — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Freelton — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Greensville — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Hannon — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Industrial Sector — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
  • Iroquoia Heights — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Meadowlands — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Mount Hope — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rockton — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rural Ancaster — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rural Dundas — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rural Flamborough — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rural Glanbrook — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Rural Stoney Creek — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Stoney Creek Industrial — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
  • Stoney Creek Mountain — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Stripley — feed spelling duplicate of Stipley (City spelling: Stipeley)
  • Twenty Place — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Villages of Glancaster — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Waterdown — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Winona Park — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
Neighbourhoods where the published boundary is named differently (21)
  • ancaster → Ancaster — former Town of Ancaster — the City's community boundary
  • broughton → Broughton East + Broughton West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • chappel → Chappel East + Chappel West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • crown-point → Crown Point West + Crown Point East — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • delta → Delta West + Delta East — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • dundas → Dundas — former Town of Dundas — the City's community boundary
  • falkirk → Falkirk East + Falkirk West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • gershome → Gersholme — City spelling 'Gersholme'
  • glenview → Glenview East + Glenview West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • jerseyville → Jerseyville East + Jerseyville West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • kennedy → Kennedy West + Kennedy East — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • kirkendall → Kirkendall North + Kirkendall South — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • mcquesten → Mcquesten West + Mcquesten East — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • north-end → North End East + North End West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • parkview → Parkview East + Parkview West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • riverdale → Riverdale West + Riverdale East — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • stipley → Stipeley — City spelling 'Stipeley'
  • stoney-creek → Stoney Creek — former City of Stoney Creek — the City's community boundary
  • westcliffe → Westcliffe East + Westcliffe West — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • westdale → Westdale North + Westdale South — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
  • winona → Winona South + Winona North — union of the City's 2 directional planning units
Every excluded Hamilton school, with its reason
  • Arrell Youth Centre Section 23 Progam — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Cust/Correctional Facility)
  • Bernie Custis Secondary School Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Bridge Program Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • CCE JK-8 International Language-Sept-Jun — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • CCE JK-8 International Language-Summer — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • CCE Remediation - ELE — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • City Learning Centre Adult Day School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • D2L Hybrid NS — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Elementary Alt-Ed — program by name (Ministry condition says "Not applicable", but the name describes an alternative/continuing-education programme rather than a neighbourhood school)
  • Families 1st CTEP — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Grace Haven Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB Sec Night — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Hatts Off IV Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Hatts Off VI Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Hill Park Adult Day School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Hill Park CI Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Hill Park Credit IL — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Hill Park System Alternative Education — program by name (Ministry condition says "Not applicable", but the name describes an alternative/continuing-education programme rather than a neighbourhood school)
  • 792389 — not in the current Ministry directory
  • 934262 — not in the current Ministry directory
  • Lynwood Charlton City Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Lynwood Charlton Flamborough Section 23 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Lynwood Charlton Hill Park — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Night School Hill Park Night School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Nora Henderson Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Notre Dame House — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Remote Day School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Remote School)
  • Safe Harbours #1 & #2 — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Sir Isaac Brock System Alternative Education Secondary School — program by name (Ministry condition says "Not applicable", but the name describes an alternative/continuing-education programme rather than a neighbourhood school)
  • St. Charles Catholic Adult Secondary School — program site, not a community school (Ministry condition: Alternative)
  • St. Charles East 5th Night School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • St. Martin's Manor — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • St. Martin's Manor — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Summer Coop Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Summer eLearning Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Summer Reach Ahead Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Turning Point Alternative Education School — program site, not a community school (Ministry condition: Alternative)

Method notes

School eligibility
A school appears if it is in the Ministry's current directory and its special-condition code marks it a community school. Summer, night, continuing-education, care and treatment, correctional, remote and virtual programme sites are excluded and listed above.
Neighbourhood boundaries
The City of Hamilton's own published boundaries. Where the municipality splits an area into directional units, the page covers their union and says so. A name with no published boundary gets no page.
Counting inside a boundary
Schools, licensed child care, parks, transit stops and public facilities are counted by point-in-polygon against the municipal boundary — not by a radius around a centre point.
Census figures
Dissemination areas whose centre falls inside the boundary. Counts are summed; rates and medians are population-weighted. Suppressed StatCan values stay unpublished.
Child care locations
The provincial register has no coordinates. Facilities are placed by matching their civic address to the City of Hamilton's open address register — never a commercial geocoder. A facility that does not match is still listed, without a location.
Rent figures
CMHC Rental Market Survey values, at the smallest geography CMHC publishes for this city. Never attributed to a neighbourhood or a school, because no public source measures rent at that scale.
Dates
"Last updated" reflects when the underlying DATA changed or was retrieved — never when the site was built or deployed.

Corrections

Spotted something wrong? Email info@districtiq.ca with the page and the field. Where the error is in an upstream dataset we will say so and link the publisher’s own correction route.

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