Learn what you’ll find in the Economic Development Dashboard, stat!

There are two types of people in this world. The kind who like statistics and the kind who have already stopped reading this because it is a statistic. If you’re still reading, that probably means you want to learn more about our new Economic Development Dashboard. The dashboard provides a one-stop shop for information on the local economy with an extra focus on downtown. At the click of a button, you can access numbers that help tell the story of Ottawa’s economic health. Data appears under four main headings:

• Labour Force
• Real Estate
• Livability
• Downtown Focus

Dig just a little deeper and you can access everything from employment and vacancy rates for the entire city, right down to the number of patio permits issued downtown. There are more than two dozen points of data. Information sources include the City of Ottawa, Statistics Canada, the Ottawa Real Estate Board, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and others. The dashboard replaces the statistics we used to provide quarterly to subscribers of the City of Ottawa Economic Development Update.