06-02-2015, 10:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2015, 06:42 AM by Pheidippides.
Edit Reason: Replaced legend with correct one.
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Here is a map of population densities based on 2011 census data at the dissemination block level (the smallest available data from Statistics Canada).
This is the population density, but a better measure might be the population + employment density, but that data was harder to come by.
The top number in each dissemination block label is the population, the bottom number the population density per square kilometre. Sorry no streets (but pretty easy to pick out St. Mary's and reference yourself from there).
Legend
(broken into even quintiles (each category has 20% of dissemination blocks from across the Region))
Population Data was retrieved from here:
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/24...e263a1fa4d
Boundary files were retrieved from here:
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen...11-eng.cfm
Interestingly, due to the nature of dissemination blocks they can lead to some interesting densities in some odd spots.
Top 10 Dissemination Areas (of 4103) in Waterloo Region by density:
4 in downtown Kitchener
1 near Mowat Blvd (Kitchener)
1 near Monterey Cres (Kitchener)
1 near Champlain Crt (Kitchener)
1 near Wellington/Main (Cambridge)
1 near Eby St (Woolwich)
1 near Woodhurst Crt (Kitchener)
Dissemination Block Density Statistics
Min 0
Max 28,549
Mean 2,727
Median 2,631
This is the population density, but a better measure might be the population + employment density, but that data was harder to come by.
The top number in each dissemination block label is the population, the bottom number the population density per square kilometre. Sorry no streets (but pretty easy to pick out St. Mary's and reference yourself from there).
Legend
(broken into even quintiles (each category has 20% of dissemination blocks from across the Region))
Population Data was retrieved from here:
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/24...e263a1fa4d
Boundary files were retrieved from here:
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen...11-eng.cfm
Interestingly, due to the nature of dissemination blocks they can lead to some interesting densities in some odd spots.
Top 10 Dissemination Areas (of 4103) in Waterloo Region by density:
4 in downtown Kitchener
1 near Mowat Blvd (Kitchener)
1 near Monterey Cres (Kitchener)
1 near Champlain Crt (Kitchener)
1 near Wellington/Main (Cambridge)
1 near Eby St (Woolwich)
1 near Woodhurst Crt (Kitchener)
Dissemination Block Density Statistics
Min 0
Max 28,549
Mean 2,727
Median 2,631
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.