This page is a short, shareable recap of the live CityViz demo. Each video walks through one part of the platform, so you can revisit the pieces that matter most, prepare for an internal discussion, or forward a specific feature to a colleague who was not in the room. Watch the videos in order for the full story, or jump directly to the capability you want to review.

CityViz is the economic development data platform built for Canadian communities and regions. It brings authoritative public datasets, local data, custom indicators, maps, reports, and website-ready tools into one branded portal that stays current automatically.

Video link: https://youtu.be/LqB4Bx882Qg

The census is the authoritative foundation for understanding a community. CityViz organizes the full census story into the topics economic developers use most: Population, Workforce, and Housing, with Social data where available. Instead of searching through StatCan tables each time a question comes up, your team gets interactive charts, benchmarks, maps, and report-ready outputs in one place.

Perfect for: investment attraction, BR&E, workforce development, housing needs assessments, grant applications, official community plans, and council briefings.

Video link: https://youtu.be/QWC0o87H7Rw

Workforce Profile gives you the deeper labour-market story behind headline employment numbers. It uses census detail to show occupation by industry, education and skills, class of worker, commuting patterns, and remote-work characteristics. It helps your team answer the question every employer and site selector eventually asks: can we find the people we need here?

Perfect for: employer attraction packages, workforce development, labour-market assessments, talent attraction, and regional partnership discussions.

Video link: https://youtu.be/5x4xhhQVN68

The Economic Indicators Dashboard gives your team one configurable screen for monitoring local economic health. Use CityViz’s standard indicators, add your own custom data through the admin area, and display key metrics as charts, gauges, value boxes, maps, or ticker items. The full dashboard can be exported to PDF, Word, or PowerPoint with interpretation and supporting data tables.

Perfect for: monthly briefings, council updates, board reports, investor presentations, grant applications, and internal monitoring.

Video link: https://youtu.be/Vdk9FKw9IrI

Location Analytics maps key demographic, workforce, housing, and business indicators at the neighbourhood level. Switch indicators instantly, filter by value ranges, and overlay business counts by industry to reveal local patterns that are hard to see in a table.

Perfect for: market analysis, neighbourhood comparisons, site selection, planning documents, council presentations, and investor packages.

Video link: https://youtu.be/DY7CcK6uQfk?si=bsmnouHUpMHTPkgw

CityViz shows your business base by industry, geography, and employment-size category, including businesses with and without employees where data is available. Explore 2- and 4-digit NAICS detail, identify clusters, compare neighbourhoods, and add custom layers such as major projects, business directories, or local investment inventories.

Perfect for: cluster targeting, BR&E, supplier-gap analysis, import replacement, neighbourhood site selection, local economic monitoring, and investment storytelling.

Video link: https://youtu.be/enaeSPg9kfs

Some of your most valuable data is local: building permits, business licences, directories, major projects, development sites, tourism assets, social infrastructure, or other datasets your team already maintains. CityViz can turn that data into charts, maps, dashboards, searchable directories, and guided map tours. Data can be uploaded manually through the admin area or connected through SFTP, API, or database integration where available.

Perfect for: building permits, business licences, business directories, capital projects, map tours, site inventories, social data, tourism assets, and locally maintained indicators.

Video link: https://youtu.be/sECE2M-BmNI

Transportation and Logistics helps you show how your community connects to markets, suppliers, talent, and infrastructure. Use interactive maps for drive times, highway access, truck routes, air service, rail, intermodal facilities, ports, and other strategic assets relevant to your location story.

Perfect for: investment attraction, site-selection packages, logistics marketing, industrial development, and regional advantage storytelling.

Video link: https://youtu.be/8lBQwmmvqxg

Getting Around visualizes livability and access through travel time. Drop a pin and see what is reachable in 10, 20, or 30 minutes by walking, cycling, transit, or driving, with active-transportation layers where available.

Perfect for: site selection, downtown development, livability marketing, talent attraction, housing conversations, and transportation planning.

Video link: https://youtu.be/ly2iu5Y5RgQ

Report Studio turns CityViz data into branded, presentation-ready outputs in minutes. Start from a quick template or build a custom report from modular sections, add benchmark communities, choose your format, and export to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. Reports generate in the background and arrive by email when they are ready.

Perfect for: investor packages, council presentations, annual reports, grant applications, board updates, media kits, and internal briefings.

Video link: https://youtu.be/Iw4K7WsScUU?si=yV5oRM5A5IUh5xwQ

CityViz helps turn anonymous interest into identifiable engagement. When visitors generate reports or subscribe for data-update notifications, their contact information is collected in the admin area, where your team can review who is engaging with your data and follow up appropriately.

Perfect for: investment attraction, lead capture, stakeholder engagement, newsletter building, and relationship-based outreach.

Video link: https://youtu.be/K84ckoU4LwE?si=Jcg06m6sCOkXxyT-

Every CityViz chart is live, not a static image. Users can hover for exact values, toggle data series, zoom into a range, open supporting tables, and download charts as images for slides, reports, and internal notes.

Video link: https://youtu.be/fQQA8lZpOUg?si=lxlcOu_f5TDEHf5g

CityViz is not limited to the portal. Charts, maps, dashboards, community profiles, workforce data, business tools, and other modules can be embedded directly into your municipal, regional, or investment-attraction website. Widgets are branded, responsive, current, and simple to place with a copy-paste embed code.

Perfect for: investment-attraction pages, workforce pages, community profiles, investor portals, downtown pages, sector pages, and campaign landing pages.

Our widgets are currently (July 2026) redesigned, and we will be adding new types of widgets along with the new design. See more about embeddable website widgets: https://cityviz.ca/widgets/

CityViz is designed to be easy to launch, easy to maintain, and easy to explain to procurement and IT teams.

• Fast implementation. A standard CityViz portal can usually be launched in about two business days after the required onboarding items are received. Your team’s initial effort is typically a short questionnaire, a subdomain setup, and branding assets. Custom data can be added during implementation or later without blocking the standard launch.
• Automatic updates. Built-in datasets are monitored and refreshed automatically as new source data is released. Your team does not need to rebuild charts or maintain public-data pipelines.
• Subscription value. Your subscription includes platform hosting, standard data updates, technical support, ongoing product improvements, and branding re-alignment when your visual identity changes.
• Canadian hosting and security. CityViz is hosted in Canada, with encrypted connections, role-based access, multi-factor login, daily backups, and cloud infrastructure designed for public-sector review.
• Authoritative sources. CityViz uses Statistics Canada, CMHC, provincial and municipal sources, premium third-party data where licensed, and your own local data where supplied.

Fast to start, current without effort, and secure in Canada — so your team can focus on economic development while the platform keeps the data story ready.