Insights
What the data actually says.
DistrictIQ counts active listings, school catchments, condo buildings and development applications across Ontario. Insights is where we explain what those numbers mean, with the count shown and the judgement labelled as ours.
How every story is built. A Shortlist states the test a place had to meet to appear on it; the qualifying set is arithmetic and the order is our judgement, labelled as such. Every figure resolves from current DistrictIQ data with its as-of date beside it, and a figure that has moved since publication says so.
- stories published
- 7stories published
- places met the lead story's test
- 37places met the lead story's test
- latest update
- October 13, 2026latest update
The Shortlist
Places that met a stated test.The set is arithmetic. The order is ours.
Each Shortlist names the rule, counts everything that passed it, and writes up the ones we think matter — with live figures beside every entry and a drift note when a number has moved.
The Shortlist
Markets37met the test · 6 written up
One city, many markets
A city has one median asking price and hundreds of school attendance boundaries. Measured inside the board-published boundaries, the gap between a city's cheapest and dearest catchment markets runs from just over 1× in the smallest markets we track to nearly 13× in Toronto. The six widest spans are written up below; all 37 markets that met the test are named in the method note.
The Shortlist
Schools10met the test · 6 written up
The high school usually owns the neighbourhood name
We found ten Ontario neighbourhoods where an elementary and a secondary school share the neighbourhood's name. In nine, the secondary school serves more of the neighbourhood — often far more. Six are written up below; the other four are named in the method note.
Latest insights
Everything published, newest first. A Shortlist resolves its figures live; a Note is one finding, written once, with every figure sourced to the page it came from.
Research by topic
What DistrictIQ measures.
Each story is filed under the thing it counts. The same loaders feed the market, school and neighbourhood pages the stories link into, so a figure here and a figure there can never disagree.
Markets
5 storiesAsking prices and inventory, measured inside the attendance boundaries a city's median averages over.
Schools
1 storyWho is zoned where: board-published boundaries, namesake coverage and what a school's name does and does not tell a buyer.
Development
1 storyDevelopment applications, by municipality and site.
Every Shortlist states the test a place had to meet to appear on it, and every figure resolves from current DistrictIQ data rather than being typed into the article. How each number is calculated is set out in our methodology, and where the underlying data comes from is set out in about the data.