Neighbourly gives Canadian municipalities a turnkey location data layer to power resident-facing portals, attract investment, clean up disorganized property and address records, and publish well-structured, SEO-friendly location pages — all from a single, authoritative API.
Most residents go to Google before they go to your portal. They want to know what's being built next door, what their neighbourhood scores on walkability, what schools and parks are nearby, and what the permit history is for the property they just bought. Neighbourly gives you the underlying data — boundaries, permits, demographics, points of interest — so you can publish public-facing answers instead of forcing residents to file an information request.
Site selectors, developers, retail brands, and investors evaluate municipalities by what they can learn before they call. Demographics, business density, building permit velocity, neighbourhood character, and infrastructure context — all queryable, all up-to-date. Power your economic development website, attract investment, and let your data tell the story.
Civic address files, permit databases, and property records are notoriously messy — duplicates, inconsistent formatting, mixed casing, missing unit numbers. Neighbourly's address standardization and entity resolution layer cleans, normalizes, and deduplicates municipal datasets so they actually match across systems and play well with provincial and federal data feeds.
One authoritative URL structure for every neighbourhood, ward, BIA, postal area, and address in your municipality. Neighbourly powers consistent, SEO-optimized location landing pages with structured data, breadcrumbs, and consistent metadata — so your community shows up when residents search and your URLs stay stable as boundaries evolve.
Most municipalities run on a patchwork of GIS files, CSV exports from legacy systems, and spreadsheets that get emailed between departments. Different teams reference different boundary versions. Address records don't reconcile across permit, tax, and 311 systems. The economic development website is hand-maintained. The community-facing portal hasn't been updated since the last grant cycle. None of it is queryable, and none of it is consistent.
Neighbourly gives you a single, Canadian-hosted location API that your IT team, planning department, communications office, and economic development unit can all build against. Boundaries, addresses, permits, demographics, points of interest — all consistent, all up-to-date, all queryable by coordinate or address. The same data layer that powers your public neighbourhood pages also powers your internal planning dashboards.
Because Neighbourly maintains the data infrastructure, you don't have to. We handle ingestion from Statistics Canada, your municipal open data portal, and other Canadian sources — and we keep it normalized, clean, and version-controlled. Your team focuses on serving residents and attracting investment; we focus on the data plumbing.
Residents, businesses, and search engines all expect the same thing: a single, canonical page for each place. Neighbourly powers location landing pages with consistent URL slugs, breadcrumb hierarchies, structured data markup, and version-stable identifiers — even when boundaries change.
We can power your existing CMS, generate a static site, or run as a headless data layer behind your team's preferred stack. Your IT department gets clean APIs. Your communications team gets pages that rank. Residents get answers.
Tell us about your municipality, the systems you're working with, and the resident experience you want to deliver. We'll show you how Neighbourly fits into your stack — and what it would take to launch.
Common questions about this data and how to use it.
To inform residents, drive economic development, clean disorganised data, and power location landing pages and URL structures.
Yes. Neighbourhood and boundary data suits resident portals and community information pages.
Yes — our data-quality services clean, standardise, and enrich existing municipal datasets.
Yes, supporting public-sector data-residency needs.
Contact us for a walkthrough and a coverage report for your jurisdiction.