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Method

Where this site's data comes from

Every figure on Guelph 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 datasets68 indexable pages

What is peculiar about Guelph's public data

Guelph’s constraint is licensing, not availability. The City publishes two neighbourhood layers: a thirteen-area Neighbourhood Group set under an open licence, and a richer twenty-three-area layer from 2013 that carries no licence at all. The second one is the one most people would recognise, and it is the one this site cannot use. Six of the City’s licensed areas match names in use; the rest are listed below as excluded, with the reason.

Everything else here is unusually clean for a city this size. Guelph has its own census metropolitan area, so the rent figures genuinely describe Guelph rather than a slice of a larger region — which is not true of every city in this network.

What this site publishes

49
School profiles
49 indexed
6
Neighbourhood pages
6 indexed
62
Licensed child care records
45 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 Guelph Open Data — Neighbourhood Groups, Parks, Bus Stops, Trails, City Facilities, Child Care, Schools, Addresses

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

City of Guelph

Neighbourhood names and boundaries are the City's Neighbourhood Group areas. Only areas that correspond to a DistrictIQ community are published; the City's child care point layer supplies childcare locations, matched to the provincial licence register by address where possible.

Refreshed:
Continuous; refetched on each data build

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Guelph.

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

15 excluded

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

Neighbourhoods

12 excluded

  • 10 — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • 1 — no licensed City boundary (the City's Neighbourhood Group layer has no Clairfields area)
  • 1 — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
Every excluded Guelph neighbourhood name, with its reason
  • Clairfields/Hanlon Business Park — no licensed City boundary (the City's Neighbourhood Group layer has no Clairfields area)
  • Dovercliffe Park/Old University — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • General Hospital — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Kortright East — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Kortright West — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Pineridge/Westminster Woods — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Riverside Park — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • St. Patrick's Ward — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Victoria North — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Village By The Arboretum — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • Willow West/Sugarbush/West Acres — no licensed municipal boundary carries this name
  • York/Watson Industrial Park — employment area, not a residential neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods where the published boundary is named differently (3)
  • grange-road → Grange Hill East — Grange Road is the feed's name for the City's Grange Hill East neighbourhood group
  • junction-onward-willow → The Junction + Onward Willow — two Neighbourhood Group areas the feed treats as one
  • st-georges → Saint George's — City spelling 'Saint George's'
Every excluded Guelph school, with its reason
  • Day School -Wellington Centre - ContEd — program by name (Ministry condition says "Not applicable", but the name describes an alternative/continuing-education programme rather than a neighbourhood school)
  • Elementary Remote Learning Program — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Remote School)
  • 648217 — not in the current Ministry directory
  • Heritage Languages — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • New Way — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • Night School-Wellington Centre for ContE — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Pathways — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • St John Bosco Catholic School — program site, not a community school (Ministry condition: Alternative)
  • Trellis — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Care/Treatment Facility)
  • UGDSB Online Learning Program — program site, not a community school (Ministry condition: Online School)
  • Virtual School - Elementary — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Remote School)
  • Virtual School - Secondary — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Remote School)
  • Wellington Cath Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)
  • Wellington Centre for Cont Ed — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Continuing Education)
  • Wellington Summer School — not in the 2024-25 School Information file (Ministry condition: Summer)

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 Guelph'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 Guelph'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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