About
Choose your neighbourhood,
without surprises.
Explore Ma Ville is a neighbourhood guide for Quebec. One page per neighbourhood and city, clear, comparable, no detour.
The approach
One page, one structure.
Choosing where to live means cross-referencing about ten sources: prices, schools, safety, transit, demographics, environment, risks. Explore Ma Ville aligns this data on one page per neighbourhood and city, always in the same format.
The result fits on a single page, reads in any order, and compares in two clicks with any other covered neighbourhood or city.
How we work · Sources
100% public data. 0% opinion.
All data comes from official public sources from Quebec and Canada. None is invented, none is estimated. On every page, the same figures in the same structure, to enable comparison.
Official producers, by main category:
- Demographics
- Statistique Canada, 2021 Census, dissemination areas and CSDs.
- Ville de Montréal, Sociodemographic profiles by borough and sub-neighbourhood.
- Schools
- Ministère de l’Éducation (MEQ), Register of primary and secondary schools.
- Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur (MEES), CEGEPs, colleges and universities.
- Institut Fraser, Annual ranking of Quebec secondary schools.
- Safety
- SPVM, Criminal acts by category, 24-month window (Montreal).
- Mobility and transit
- GTFS des sociétés de transport, STM, STL, RTL, RTC, STO, STS, exo, stations, stops, train stations.
- Ville de Montréal, Bike paths, bike counters, pedestrian and shared streets.
- Family and lifestyle
- Ministère de la Famille, Location of CPEs, daycares and licensed spots.
- Ville de Montréal, Parks, splash pads, wading pools, sports and leisure programs.
- Environment
- Ville de Montréal, Canopy cover (3-30-30 rule), public trees, RSQA air quality index.
- Ville de Québec, Inventoried trees, flood zones.
- Risks
- MELCC, Flood zone maps.
- Ville de Montréal, Lead-in-water detection.
- Geography and boundaries
- Ville de Montréal, Boundaries of the 19 boroughs and sub-neighbourhoods.
- Ville de Québec, Boundaries of the 6 boroughs.
- Statistique Canada, Census subdivisions (CSDs) for cities outside Montreal.
Open data portals: Données Montréal, Données Québec, Statistique Canada.
Licences: public data released under Quebec Open Licence, Open Government Licence – Canada and CC-BY 4.0. Full attribution on every page.
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Legal notices
Informational site, no transactions.
Publisher: Oloodi, Montreal (Quebec), Canada.
OACIQ status: Explore Ma Ville is an informational site. No real-estate transaction is carried out on this site. No representation within the meaning of the Quebec Real Estate Brokerage Act. Connections with OACIQ-certified real-estate brokers, notaries, inspectors or movers are provided as referrals; the user is free to choose.
Data: public sources cited on every page. Figures reflect the official databases at the last build date. No guarantee of completeness or accuracy; if you spot an error, let us know.
Jurisdiction: laws of Quebec, Canada.
See also the privacy policy.