Data and sources
Everything on this site comes from published public data. This page lists every dataset, its publisher and licence, what we do with it, and — for the census figures — the exact areas behind each number, so you can reproduce our arithmetic rather than take it on trust.
Every dataset we use
| Dataset | Publisher | Reporting period | Refresh | How we use it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Inventory | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Reviewed quarterly | Park names, classification, size, address and facility flags on the parks, waterfront and neighbourhood pages. |
| Growth Areas | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Reviewed on Official Plan amendment | Identifies which officially designated growth areas fall inside each neighbourhood. |
| Historic Villages | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Static | Heritage context on the Bronte, Old Oakville and heritage pages. |
| Planning and Development Applications | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Reviewed monthly | Active planning applications in South Oakville: file number, type, status, address and proposed unit counts. |
| Community Roads (road centrelines) | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Static | The Queen Elizabeth Way alignment that defines this site's coverage area, and the named roads the neighbourhood coverage areas are described by. |
| Town Boundary | Town of Oakville | 2026 | Static | Confirms every published record sits inside Oakville. A record outside it fails the build. |
| Census of Population, 2021 — dissemination area profiles and boundaries | Statistics Canada | 2021 | Every five years (next: 2026 Census) | Population, age, household size, tenure and education for each neighbourhood, aggregated from the dissemination areas listed on the data page. |
| Ontario school information and enrolment | Ontario Ministry of Education | 2024–25 | Annually | School name, Ministry school number (BSID), board, level, language, grade range, enrolment, address and contact details. |
| EQAO assessment results | Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) | 2024–25 | Annually | Grade 3 and 6 reading, writing and mathematics, Grade 9 mathematics and the OSSLT, as published percentages. |
| Licensed child care facilities in Ontario | Ontario Ministry of Education | 2026 | Reviewed quarterly | Licensed child care centres in each neighbourhood: licence number, operator, programme type and schedule. |
| GO Transit station locations | Metrolinx | 2026 | Reviewed annually | Oakville GO and Bronte GO locations, used for straight-line distance context only. |
Licences and attribution
Each licence below governs the source dataset, not this site. Our own pages are not licensed by the Town of Oakville, Statistics Canada or the Province — claiming they were would be a false statement about our compilation.
Where a publisher documents no licence, we say so rather than guess one. That is the case for the Ministry of Education school directory and the EQAO results: both are credited in full, and neither is presented as carrying a licence we cannot point to.
| Dataset | Licence | Required attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Park Inventory | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Growth Areas | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Historic Villages | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Planning and Development Applications | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Community Roads (road centrelines) | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Town Boundary | Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. |
| Census of Population, 2021 — dissemination area profiles and boundaries | Statistics Canada Open Licence | Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. |
| Ontario school information and enrolment | None documented by the publisher | Credited by publisher name |
| EQAO assessment results | None documented by the publisher | Credited by publisher name |
| Licensed child care facilities in Ontario | Open Government Licence — Ontario | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Ontario. |
| GO Transit station locations | None documented by the publisher | Credited by publisher name |
How we define our areas
Our neighbourhood areas are SouthOakville.ca's own editorial coverage areas, not Town of Oakville boundaries. The Town does not publish official neighbourhood boundaries.
The Town’s only neighbourhood zone layer states that it is “derived from the Transportation Master Plan and are intended for internal use only” and that the zones “do not represent official or publicly recognized neighbourhood boundaries and should not be used for general or external purposes.” We do not use it, and nothing on this site is derived from it.
Instead, our method is:
- The coverage line is the QEW. Its alignment comes from the Town’s own road centreline data — the geometry of its QEW interchanges, exits 109 to 124. We validate that line against ten known landmarks on both sides before using it, in an automated test that fails the build if any of them lands on the wrong side.
- Areas are cut at named features — Bronte Creek, Third Line, Dorval Drive, Sixteen Mile Creek, Morrison Road, Ford Drive — projected onto an axis parallel to the shoreline, because Oakville’s street grid is rotated roughly 30° from north and a simple north–south split does not follow it.
- Membership is expressed as census areas. Each area is the set of Statistics Canada 2021 dissemination areas whose centre falls inside it — 114 in total. Those lists are published below. Every population and percentage on this site is aggregated from them, with averages weighted by population.
Read the full explanation of the coverage definition, including the one context in which the Town does use the name “South Oakville”.
Census areas behind each neighbourhood
The Statistics Canada 2021 dissemination area identifiers (DAUIDs) behind every figure. A dissemination area covers roughly 400 to 700 people and is the smallest standard census geography published.
Bronte — 20 areas, 16,602 residents
35240248, 35240249, 35240250, 35240251, 35240252, 35240253, 35240254, 35240255, 35240259, 35240263, 35240265, 35240266, 35240267, 35240268, 35240271, 35240510, 35241030, 35241031, 35241045, 35241046
Southwest Oakville — 16 areas, 8,748 residents
35240240, 35240242, 35240243, 35240244, 35240245, 35240246, 35240247, 35240256, 35240257, 35240269, 35240270, 35240579, 35240580, 35240581, 35240582, 35240583
West Oakville — 17 areas, 9,359 residents
35240222, 35240229, 35240230, 35240231, 35240232, 35240233, 35240234, 35240235, 35240236, 35240237, 35240238, 35240239, 35240241, 35240577, 35240578, 35240584, 35240585
Kerr Village — 12 areas, 7,468 residents
35240220, 35240221, 35240223, 35240224, 35240225, 35240226, 35240227, 35240228, 35240586, 35240587, 35240588, 35240589
Old Oakville — 13 areas, 7,460 residents
35240205, 35240206, 35240207, 35240208, 35240209, 35240210, 35240211, 35240213, 35240215, 35240216, 35240217, 35240218, 35240219
Morrison — 16 areas, 8,031 residents
35240134, 35240135, 35240136, 35240137, 35240138, 35240139, 35240140, 35240141, 35240142, 35240143, 35240144, 35240200, 35240201, 35240203, 35240204, 35240212
Clearview — 20 areas, 10,061 residents
35240145, 35240146, 35240147, 35240148, 35240150, 35240152, 35240153, 35240154, 35240155, 35240156, 35240157, 35240158, 35240159, 35240160, 35240161, 35240162, 35240198, 35240199, 35240202, 35240616
What we deliberately do not publish
This site carries no real-estate data of any kind, and that is a hard rule rather than a current gap. Nothing derived from MLS, IDX, VOW or PropTx data reaches these pages: no listings, no prices, no sold or leased figures, no days on market, no inventory counts, no neighbourhood or catchment medians, and no statistic whose inputs include any of those.
The export that builds this site is an explicit allowlist. Every published field is named individually in the pipeline before it can appear; upstream records are never copied whole and filtered afterwards. An automated test fails the build if a prohibited field name or a listing-derived value appears anywhere in the published data.
We also publish no school catchment boundaries, no school rankings or composite scores, and no “best of” lists. Catchments change and belong to the school boards; rankings would require a methodology we do not have.
Known data-quality issues
Public datasets contain errors. Where we find one, we say so here rather than quietly correcting it — a correction we invent is worse than a gap we disclose.
Coordinates outside the municipal boundary. 1 of the 21 school records carries a published coordinate that falls outside the Town of Oakville. We publish the record with its address and omit the map position, rather than dropping a real school or substituting a geocode of our own.
- Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School (255 Morden Road) — coordinate outside the Town of Oakville boundary.
Every school coordinate is checked against the Town of Oakville boundary at build time, and a new record that fails breaks the build rather than shipping silently.
Keep reading
- What counts as South Oakville?
The coverage definition in full, and why no official boundary exists.
- About this site
Who publishes it, what it is for, and the editorial rules behind it.