Census division is the general term for a Canadian geographic subregion (such as county, municipalité régionale de comté and regional district). They are typically established to facilitate the provision of public services (such as police or ambulance), but StatCan also utilizes these regions to help disseminate and organize statistical information.

GET /census-divisions/search

Public

Returns basic attributes, such as name and type, of a given census division or all census divisions within a region.

Request Parameter	Details
region_code	The two letter internationally standardized ISO-3166-2 region code.
name	(Optional) Census division name

Response Key	type	Definition
id	string	The unique 4-digit census division id (first two digits correspond to region)
name	string	Census division name
type	string	Census division type
land_area	numeric(32,2)	Land area of census division, in square kilometers (km2)
region_code	string	The two letter internationally standardized ISO-3166-2 region code

Example Requests

Specifying a region using the region_code will return all census divisions in that region.

GET

https://api.tm41m.com/census-divisions/search?region_code=ON

Response:

{
    "region_code": "ON",
    "id": "3501",
    "type": "UC",
    "name": "Prescott and Russell",
    "land_area": 2004.2668
}

The attributes of a single census division can be observed by specifying the name. Special characters such as spaces and accents can be passed unencoded to the request.

https://api.tm41m.com/census-divisions/search?region_code=QC&name=La Matapédia

GET

Response:

{
    "name": "La Matapédia",
    "id": "2407",
    "type": "MRC",
    "land_area": 5354.5318,
    "region_code": "QC"
}