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Supported cities

Hoodly is built one metro at a time. Every supported city has a hand-tuned data pipeline — foot traffic, transit, business churn, demographics, development pipeline, venues — stitched into the same five-page report format.

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Canada · ON

Toronto

Live · CA$15

City of Toronto Open Data + TTC + StatCan Census 2021 + ~13,000 cafes and restaurants. Pedestrian counts at intersections city-wide.

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Greater Toronto Area (next)

Same operator network as Toronto. Same provincial regulations. Same census vintage. The natural extension before crossing into other metros. Audit complete across all 24 municipalities.

GTA-wide constraint: Toronto is the only GTA municipality that publishes open pedestrian-volume data. Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, all York/Durham/Halton cities — none of them. This is the same situation as LA: matching Toronto-depth foot-traffic in the GTA requires either a paid mobility supplement (StreetLight / Replica / Placer) or an OSM/BIA-density proxy. Everything else (transit, permits, parks, heritage, BIDs, census, liquor) is widely available.

Strong — 7-9 of 14 layers (excluding ped-counts) confirmed clean

Peel · ~750k

Mississauga

🟢 strongest GTA

Lime + Bird GBFS. Heritage 1k+ props. 10/12 confirmed.

Peel · ~700k

Brampton

🟢 strong

GeoHub. Dev apps + libraries + heritage. E-scooter pilot Y3.

York · ~360k

Markham

🟢 strongest York

Dev apps, wards, parks, heritage districts all confirmed on hub.

Halton · ~220k

Oakville

🟢 strongest Halton

85+ datasets. 910+ heritage props. Affluent demo.

Halton · ~190k

Burlington

🟢 strong

Navigate Burlington. GTFS-RT + heritage + parks.

Durham · ~100k

Pickering

🟢 strongest Durham

Neighbourhoods, wards, parks confirmed. BRT corridor.

Halton · ~140k

Milton

🟢 viable

Fastest-growing in Canada. Discover Milton hub.

Durham · ~175k

Oshawa

🟢 viable

East-GTA anchor. GO Expansion early works.

Viable — 4-6 layers clean, others need direct portal verification

York · ~88k

Newmarket

🟡 unverified upside

Navigate Newmarket claims open ped-counts — verify; could be the only GTA city outside Toronto with this.

York · ~62k

Aurora

🟡 viable

Town Data Hub. Parks/trails confirmed.

Durham · ~135k

Ajax

🟡 viable

Light portal. BRT corridor.

Durham · ~140k

Whitby

🟡 viable

Whitby GeoHub; layers need direct browse.

Thin — viewer-only or sparse open data

York · ~340k

Vaughan

🟡 viewer-only

Largest GTA gap: GIS via PLANit interactive viewer, no bulk open data hub.

York · ~210k

Richmond Hill

🟡 viewer-only

RH Maps interactive; no confirmed bulk hub.

Durham · ~110k

Clarington

🟡 thin

No ArcGIS hub. Heritage as web map only.

Peel · ~80k

Caledon

🟡 thin

No own transit. Most operational layers absent.

Halton · ~62k

Halton Hills

🔴 no portal

No open data portal at all. MapLinks viewer only.

Rural — likely skip

Low venue density + thin open data. Roll up under regional aggregates if needed, otherwise defer.

York

King

York

East Gwillimbury

York

Georgina

York · foothold

Whitchurch-Stouffville

Durham

Brock

Durham

Scugog

Durham

Uxbridge

How we pick the next city

The number-one filter is open pedestrian-volume data. Most cities publish vehicle counts and transit ridership; very few publish where people actually walk. That's the dataset that separates a real Hoodly report from a generic demographics fact-sheet, so we only add cities where the pedestrian layer is genuinely there.

After that: open zoning + permitting, an active venue database, accessible census or equivalent demographic data, and a commercial-friendly licence. If your city has those four, we want to know.

On the roadmap

We've now audited each candidate against Toronto's 14 data layers. Cities are grouped by how complete their open-data coverage is — pedestrian-volume data is the gating layer for every tier above the last.

Tier 1 — building next

Canada · QC

Montreal

🟢 GO · 11/14 ✓

Intersection pedestrian counts at 15-min resolution since 2009 (CC BY 4.0), full BIXI feed, STM transit, building permits, RACJ liquor, SDC boundaries. Methodology matches Toronto layer-for-layer.

Tier 2 — verified, queued at Toronto depth

USA · NY

New York

🟢 GO · 11/14 ✓

DOT bi-annual pedestrian counts at 114 mid-block screenlines (Apr 2026 refresh) + MTA hourly ridership as station-level proxy. LPC landmarks DB richer than Toronto's. SLA + DOHMH + DCWP + ZAP all clean.

Canada · AB

Calgary

🟢 GO · 11/14 ✓

Open Calgary publishes intersection pedestrian counts, Eco-Counter sensors, 185k+ development permits 2006-25, business licences, 15 BIAs, full GTFS. Heritage layer richer than Toronto's.

Tier 3 — viable with caveats

USA · CA

Los Angeles

🟡 paid supplement

13 of 14 layers clean (ABC liquor, LADBS, DOHMH, Metro GTFS + Bike Share, BIDs, HCM, etc.). Pedestrian data thin — 35 scattered permanent counters + biennial manual counts. Will need StreetLight / Replica / Placer feed to ship Toronto-equivalent foot-traffic depth.

Canada · NS

Halifax

🟡 narrower

HRM Data Hub covers most layers (transit, permits, parks, heritage, BIDs). Pedestrian data is Miovision spot-studies, not continuous — report will frame foot-traffic as "study-period intersection counts." NS Permanent Liquor Licenses available as bulk CSV.

Canada · MB

Winnipeg

🟡 narrower

Surprise upside: has an open Seasonal Patios dataset (rare). Permanent count stations exist but skew vehicle-heavy; bicycle-specific stations supplement. Heritage (728 resources), 16 BIZs, food inspections, libraries all clean on data.winnipeg.ca.

Tier 4 — researching

14-layer matrix audit not yet completed for these three. Will move into a tier above once the data scan finishes.

Canada · BC

Vancouver

scanning

Prior signal: ~10 permanent IR pedestrian sensors via OpenDataSoft. Thin grid for a major metro. Full matrix scan pending.

Canada · AB

Edmonton

scanning

Prior signal: 18 Eco-Counter locations, OGL-Canada. Bundles naturally with Calgary as an Alberta pipeline.

Canada · ON

Ottawa

scanning

Second-largest Ontario metro. Open-data scope and pedestrian-volume program to be audited.

Out of scope — open data insufficient

These three would require either partner-data licences or a fundamentally different product. We're parking them; if a real operator from one of these cities asks via the form below, we'll revisit.

Canada · SK

Saskatoon

🔴 STOP

One trail-side pedestrian counter, dev permits paywalled, business licences not published. Path forward requires Downtown BID partnership — different product.

Canada · NL

St. John's

🔴 STOP

No municipal open-data portal. Only GTFS + StatCan census confirmed; permits are weekly PDFs. Needs green-field data partnership.

Canada · PE

Charlottetown

🔴 STOP

No open-data portal. 38k residents in the city / 80k metro — venue universe too thin for a useful report even if data existed.

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