Permit points
Active (in progress)
Cleared (completed)
Point size ≈ units created
Active: permit issued, construction underway or about to
start. Cleared: permit closed after final inspection —
construction is complete.
About this tracker
This tracks every building permit creating 1–6 dwelling units in
Toronto since 2022, refreshed daily from the City's Open Data.
The Map tab shows where they are, one dot per permit, with
wards shaded by how many units their permits add up to.
The Trends tab shows the same permits over time, counting
either as applications or units.
Where the data comes from
Everything is pulled straight from Toronto Open Data — the
active
and
cleared
building permit datasets, geocoded against the City's municipal address
points and joined to
ward boundaries.
A scheduled job refreshes the whole chain daily. You can download the exact
data behind the map as
GeoJSON, and the code that
builds it is
on GitHub.
Caveats worth knowing
A permit is not a finished building — active permits may stall or be
abandoned, and cleared permits are the only ones confirmed complete.
Permits whose address can't be matched to an address point are counted in
the ward totals but can't be drawn as points.
Unit counts are gross, not net. The raw data includes a "dwelling units
lost" figure but it's left at zero on virtually every permit, so there is
no reliable way to subtract what a demolition removed.