Country & International Business Information: Cities

Provides socioeconomic data and analysis on over 1,000 cities worldwide (click on the Cities tab).This includes some 125 Tier 1 cities (283 socio-economic indicators provided), and over 1000 Tier 2 cities (197 socio-economic indicators provided). City reports are also available for Tier 1 cities offering key developments in their economies, consumer lifestyles, housing and transport and city environments.Visual apps are also provided to support city vs. country and city vs. city comparisons.

Select the Databases link and then click on City Statistics. Includes historic and forecast data on socio and macroeconomic indicators for almost 2000 cities worldwide in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and South & Central America. Main indicators fall within the categories of Economy, Demographics, Income and Employment. Data can be exported to excel, and charts can also be exported to Word, Powerpoint or PDF formats.

This database provides access to country risk and industry reports for over 200 countries. Their industry reports cover 22 high-level industry sectors and include current and archived industry report content. Use the Data Tool to download historical and forecast data. Review our step-by-step FitchConnect guide to learn how to navigate this database. Please note, the library's subscription does not cover all of the content in this database.

Each year, Kearney releases a Global Cities Report and Index, which measures how globally engaged cities work across five dimensions: business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. Type "cities index" OR "cities report" in website's search bar.

This guide can provide a variety of resources about the past and present of the city of Toronto.

Links to various City reports and publications.

Offers profiles of the population in each City Ward, with information about age, households, families, dwellings, immigration, etc.

This resource from the City of Toronto provides information on important and growing industry sectors in Toronto. Includes facts/highlights for each industry in Toronto, information on financial incentives or taxes as relevant, links to relevant industry associations, key players information and more.

The open data set from the City of Toronto's Geospatial Competency Centre provides a point representation for over 500,000 addresses within the City of Toronto including businesses. Each address point is described with a series of attributes including street number, street name, address type, feature class and real world coordinates. Data for the current year is available in a GIS format. To see if archived/back file data does exist, you can contact the open data team at opendata@toronto.ca.

[To obtain access to this data set, please send a request to Gaia http://gaia.library.yorku.ca.]
This is a huge text file of all of the Greater Toronto Area (over 200,000 locations, with over 25 fields). It contains the latitude/ longitude, street address, municipality, business names, and SIC/NAICs codes. Microsoft Access (or Excel if it can handle that many records), can be used to sift through the fields/columns that are present in the file. Narrow it to Toronto and specific streets, and select the address range of relevance.

Toronto’s Vital Signs Report is compiled from current statistics and studies, serving as an ongoing consolidated snapshot of the trends and issues affecting quality of life in our city.