Authoritative boundaries and demographics for the public sector.
Support planning, services and reporting with a consistent geopolitical hierarchy, census-derived demographics, permits and environmental data — Canadian-hosted and privacy-compliant.
Public-sector teams need consistent, authoritative location data across departments — but boundaries, demographics and permits often live in incompatible silos.
What Neighbourly gives government teams.
The specific, production-grade capabilities behind government on Homicity — not features on a slide, but data and tooling you can ship on.
Authoritative boundary hierarchy
Access a consistent Country to Province to Municipality to Neighbourhood hierarchy with MultiPolygon boundaries, bounding boxes and centroids at every level. Departments can align service areas to the same geography rather than reconciling incompatible internal shapefiles.
Census-derived demographic reporting
Pull census-derived demographics, age, income, tenure, education and employment, by Forward Sortation Area and municipality for planning and public reporting. The same fields are available across the country for equitable cross-jurisdiction comparison.
Normalized development activity
Query normalized Building Permits data across supported cities to analyze growth and development trends without cleaning each municipality's raw feed. Normalization is what makes multi-city comparison possible.
Public land and water context
The Environmental layer delivers crown land, water, wildlife management units, trails and campgrounds as GeoJSON for stewardship, parks and planning work. Geometry integrates directly into GIS workflows.
Coordinate-to-boundary lookups
Resolve any coordinate or address to the boundaries and hierarchy it falls within, so service records can be tagged with consistent geography at intake. This underpins accurate service-area reporting.
Cross-department single source
Because every layer shares one schema and key, planning, permitting and reporting teams draw from the same reference data. This removes the silos that cause departments to publish conflicting figures.
How Government teams use Neighbourly.
Boundary & hierarchy data
A consistent Country→Province→Municipality→Neighbourhood hierarchy for every service area.
Demographic reporting
Census-derived profiles by FSA and municipality for planning and reporting.
Permit & development activity
Normalized building-permit data for growth and planning insight.
Environmental context
Public lands, water and recreation layers for planning and stewardship.
Why government teams choose Homicity.
One consistent geographic truth
Departments align to a single boundary hierarchy and demographic base, ending the reconciliation of conflicting internal datasets.
Report with confidence
Census-derived, standardized demographics give public reporting a defensible and comparable foundation across jurisdictions.
Canadian residency and compliance
Data hosted in Canadian data centres and PIPEDA compliance meet the public sector's residency and privacy expectations directly.
GIS-ready delivery
Boundaries and environmental features arrive as standard geometry, so they drop into existing GIS and planning tools without conversion.
Data layers for Government
The Neighbourly layers most relevant to this industry — all under one API key, one schema, Canada-wide.
Three ways to put Neighbourly to work for government.
Use the data yourself, have us build the whole thing, or bring in our team for strategy and analysis — whatever fits how you work.
Canadian data residency
Hosted in Canadian data centres, end to end.
PIPEDA-compliant
Privacy-first by default, with provincial compliance built in.
One consistent schema
Every layer shares a spine, so data joins cleanly.
Always current
Live, maintained data — never stale snapshots.
Government & Municipalities — common questions
Is Neighbourly data hosted in Canada?
Yes — all data is hosted in Canadian data centres, PIPEDA-compliant by default, with provincial privacy compliance built into the architecture.
What boundary data is available for government use?
A full geopolitical hierarchy with MultiPolygon boundaries, bounding boxes and centroids at every level, from country down to neighbourhood.
What demographic data can the public sector use?
Census-derived demographics by Forward Sortation Area and municipality — age, income, tenure, education and employment — for planning and reporting.
Does it include building permit and development data?
Yes. Normalized building-permit data across 20 cities supports growth, planning and development-activity analysis.
Can I access environmental and public-land data?
Yes — a Canada-specific layer covering crown land, water, wildlife management units, trails and campgrounds, delivered as GeoJSON.
How is the data delivered and integrated?
Through a single API queryable by coordinate, address or boundary, with consistent JSON responses and Canadian data residency.
In what formats is boundary and environmental geometry delivered?
Boundaries are provided as MultiPolygon with bounding boxes and centroids, and the environmental layer is delivered as GeoJSON, so both integrate directly into standard GIS and mapping tooling.
Can we consume the data as periodic exports rather than live calls?
Yes. You can call the API directly, or arrange for our data services to deliver scheduled exports of the boundaries, demographics and permit data your departments need.
How do you keep demographic and permit data current?
Demographics are census-derived and permits are normalized from source municipalities on an ongoing basis; we can confirm coverage and refresh cadence for your jurisdictions during onboarding.
Is provincial privacy compliance addressed as well as PIPEDA?
Yes. Data is hosted in Canadian data centres with PIPEDA compliance by default and provincial privacy compliance built into the architecture, and Neighbourly supplies reference data rather than personal records.
Bring Neighbourly to your government product.
Tell us what you're building and we'll map the right data layers and plan to your use case.