About this dashboard

Each dot is a building permit for small-scale infill in Edmonton's RS Zone since January 2024: a backyard house, a duplex to fourplex, or a fiveplex to eightplex. Click a dot to see how many homes it adds. Neighbourhoods are shaded by how much their population changed between 1971 and 2021.

How to read it

• Drag the slider or press play to watch permits accumulate. Step by chooses months or whole years, and Show chooses everything so far or just that month or year.
• The LRT layer draws the line and stops, and can also show 400 m and 800 m distances from stops. The frequent bus layer adds ETS routes 1 to 9, which run every 15 minutes or better, with a 400 m distance from their stops.
• Only fiveplexes to eightplexes show at first. Tick backyard houses and duplexes to fourplexes to add them. Every number on the page follows the filters. The shading is fixed. Occupancy granted only keeps just permits the City has recorded as completed.
• Switch to Table to see every neighbourhood in a sortable list. It follows the same time, project type and occupancy controls as the map. Search by name, filter by neighbourhood type, or download what you see as a CSV.
• Hover a neighbourhood to preview its stats; click to pin them. Click a dot for the permit's address.
• Gold neighbourhoods have fewer people than in 1971, purple ones have more, and white ones are about the same. Grey neighbourhoods have no 1971 count. Neighbourhoods that aren't drawn have no RS-zoned lots, which includes most newer suburbs, where low-density land is zoned RSF instead.

© 2026 Jacob Dawang. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Permit and property data: City of Edmonton Open Data. Basemap: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.