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Would this spot cover your costs? Starting numbers are averages for small Canadian businesses of this type (ISED, —). Replace them with your own quotes: the check updates as you type.
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How many businesses and traffic anchors (supermarkets, big-box stores, banks, pharmacies, LCBO, coffee chains) sit near the spot, ranked against every block in the region, plus modelled daytime workers. Licensed mobility data would replace this with real visit counts.
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Windsor-Essex (the 9 municipalities of Essex County, 667 blocks) is built the same way as Chatham-Kent: Census 2021 blocks projected to 2026 (top-down from StatCan's Essex estimates; the 2022–24 surge of temporary residents is not carried forward, so 2026 follows 2025 growth less Ontario's slowdown), household spending by income, business locations from Overture Maps plus the Ministry of Health and AGCO registers (OpenStreetMap was unreachable, so fewer businesses are double-confirmed), building footprints, Census place of work, and 17 advertised rents (2 Nov 2026). Areas inside the City of Windsor are its 20 planning districts. Business supply is compared with comparable Ontario city-regions (London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Niagara, Oshawa, Barrie, Guelph, Kingston, Sudbury). The detailed figures below describe Chatham-Kent.
London-Middlesex (the City of London and the 8 municipalities of Middlesex County, 715 blocks) is the first region built with the reusable pipeline, the same way as Windsor-Essex: Census 2021 blocks projected to 2026 (top-down from StatCan's Middlesex estimates; the 2022–24 surge of temporary residents is not carried forward), household spending by income, business locations from Overture Maps plus the Ministry of Health and AGCO registers (OpenStreetMap was unreachable), building footprints, Census place of work, and 52 advertised rents from Cushman & Wakefield Southwestern Ontario, LoopNet, Kijiji, CommercialCafe, Gleed Commercial and Square Yards (12 Nov 2026; net asking rents without a stated TMI get $9.75, the median of the 6 London listings that state one). Areas inside the City of London are its 42 planning districts. The Chippewas of the Thames and Oneida First Nations were not fully counted in the 2021 Census, so their population shows as zero. Business supply is compared with comparable Ontario city-regions. The detailed figures below describe Chatham-Kent.
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Shares are weighted by people or households. Income is the household-weighted average of each block's median. A block is lower-confidence when its projected growth tops 25%: it rests on a small Census sample of new homes. "Supportable" is the circle's 2026 population × the peer median rate for the business type picked below; "Already there" counts mapped locations inside the circle. "Room" puts the peer benchmark in mapped-location terms and subtracts them. A town-centre circle often shows negative room because it also serves the rural catchment around it: compare circles across a town and look for the areas with room.
For any business type: Chatham-Kent's businesses with employees (StatCan, June 2026) per 10,000 residents, against the median of eight comparable Ontario municipalities. The type you pick here also drives the trade-area finder above.
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Local business types where CK has fewest per resident, ranked by how many more peer density implies. Click a row to select it.
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Local business types where CK already has more per resident than its peers. These are counts of businesses, not their size: a doctor's or contractor's own corporation counts as one business, so a high count can mean many small firms rather than easy access.
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"Town" counts the blocks mostly inside StatCan's population-centre boundary. "Town + rural catchment" adds every rural block whose nearest town it is: closer to how a small-town store actually draws customers.
| Area | 2021 count | 2026 est. | Growth | 0–14 | 65+ | 75+ people | Households | Typical income | Renters | Low income |
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Change in each age group, StatCan July 2021 estimate to the 2026 projection.
Annual population growth to each July. Ontario's swings came mostly from temporary residents, who largely bypassed CK.
CK's own trend versus a method tied to Ontario's growth. Error against StatCan's published estimate.
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Edge blocks straddle town lines; Wheatley and Tilbury extend into neighbouring municipalities.
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Not yet in the model: planning applications by address and foot traffic. Block-level growth is indicative; town and catchment totals are steadier.
Business locations merge four sources, matched by name and distance so each business is counted once: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; 1 June 2026 snapshot), Overture Maps Places (21 Oct 2026 release; CDLA-Permissive-2.0, with Foursquare records under Apache-2.0 and AllThePlaces under CC0), the Ontario Ministry of Health service provider locations (retail pharmacies, long-term care and licensed retirement homes; Open Government Licence – Ontario; current to 24 Apr 2026) and the AGCO list of cannabis stores authorized to open (updated 26 Oct 2026). For pharmacies, cannabis stores and care homes the official register is the list of record: map listings that match no register entry are dropped. Each place carries a confidence: verified (on an official register), confirmed (found by two map sources), likely (one source, or Overture confidence ≥ 0.77) and possible (one low-confidence listing, often home-based or stale: shown on the map but not counted). Coverage compares counted places with StatCan's businesses with employees; above 100% is normal because maps also hold one-person businesses, kiosks and branches. Licence notices: all sources · Foursquare NOTICE · Apache 2.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, © Overture Maps Foundation.
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Single-tier rural municipalities like CK, plus mid-size Southwestern and Eastern Ontario cities. Business counts are StatCan's Canadian Business Counts (businesses with employees, June 2026) by NAICS industry; one-person businesses without employees are not published at this level. Rates use July 2025 populations for every place.
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