Ontario Employment by Place of Work and Place of Residence Data

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Description

This dataset shows the number of jobs by place of residence and place of work for a given industry in Ontario. Data is available for 2011 and each Census year thereafter. Data is available down to the Census Subdivision level and to 4-digit NAICS.

Questions answered by this dataset

How many people in the rail transportation industry live in Toronto?
How many people in the rail transportation industry work in Toronto?

Metrics

ResEmp: The number of people employed in the industry that live in the given area.
WorkEmp: The number of people employed in the industry that work in the given area.

Filters

Area (Province, Census Division, Census Subdivision)
Industry (2 to 4-digit NAICS)
Year

Core LMI Metadata

This dataset is offered via the Core LMI API. The metadata for this Core LMI API dataset is below.

Attribute	Description
Dataset ID	`EMSI.ca.OntarioLabourFlows`
Dataset URL	`https://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.ca.OntarioLabourFlows/{version}`

Area Aggregation Path

The area aggregation path refers to the hierarchy that shows how data is aggregated, starting from the lowest-level geography and progressing to the highest-level geography.

The levels in the aggregation path include:

		Aggregation Path
		1	2	3	4
Level	1	Nation	Metropolitan US	Nation	Metropolitan US
	2	State	MSA	State	MSA
	3	County	County	County	County
	4	Zip Code	Zip Code	Census Tract	Census Tract

Datasets with lower granularity aggregates only up to Level 1

Versions

http://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.ca.OntarioLabourFlows/2025.3

Metrics

[
{
  "name": "ResEmp"
},
{
  "name": "WorkEmp"
}
]

Dimensions

[
{
  "name": "Area",
  "levelsStored": [
     "0",
     "1",
     "2"
  ]
},
{
  "name": "Industry",
  "levelsStored": [
     "0",
     "1",
     "2",
     "3"
  ]
}
]

Attributes

{
"minYearInclusive": "2021",
"name": "OntarioLabourFlows",
"type": "dataset",
"path": "OntarioLabourFlows",
"displayName": "Ontario Employment by Place of Work and Place of Residence",
"maxYearInclusive": "2021",
"description": "# Description\n\nThis dataset shows the number of jobs by place of residence and place of work for a given industry in Ontario. Data is available for 2011 and each Census year thereafter. Data is available down to the Census Subdivision level and to 4-digit NAICS.\n\n# Questions answered by this dataset\n\n* How many people in the rail transportation industry live in Toronto? \n* How many people in the rail transportation industry work in Toronto?\n\n# Metrics\n\n* ResEmp: The number of people employed in the industry that live in the given area.\n* WorkEmp: The number of people employed in the industry that work in the given area.\n\n# Filters\n\n* Area (Province, Census Division, Census Subdivision)\n* Industry (2 to 4-digit NAICS)\n* Year\n",
"currentYear": "2021",
"datarun": "2025.3",
"releaseDate": "2025-10-10 17:36:20.2558081Z",
"countryCode": "ca"
}

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