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Polygon boundaries for every Canadian postal code: 881,030 six-character postal codes across all 1,643 FSAs, validated against Statistics Canada 2021 with zero gaps or overlaps.
Delivered in FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON and CSV+WKT, with a full data dictionary, load examples and checksums — ready for GIS, analytics, and database workflows.
Overview
Complete polygon coverage for every Canadian postal code. This dataset provides boundary polygons for all 881,030 six-character Canadian postal codes across every one of the 1,643 Forward Sortation Areas (FSAs) defined by Statistics Canada 2021. Polygons are derived from confidence-weighted geocoded address evidence and constrained to official FSA boundaries, producing a seamless national tessellation: within every FSA, cells partition the area exactly, with zero gaps and zero overlaps. A postal code's polygon can be as small as a single building or city block in a downtown core, or span an entire rural town.
Built for real workloads, not just maps. Each polygon carries the evidence behind it — the number of address points inside the FSA, how many were used, how many were rejected as outliers, and a confidence-weighted containment mass — so you can filter by data quality instead of taking every cell on faith. Where an FSA contains territory with no supporting address evidence (islands, coastline, remote areas), those pieces are shipped as explicitly labelled UNASSIGNED_NO_POINT_COMPONENT features rather than silently dropped, so point-in-polygon lookups always resolve to an FSA and coverage is complete by construction.
Five formats, one dataset. Every format contains the same 1,057,110 features (881,030 postal-code cells + 176,080 unassigned components) with identical attributes:
- FlatGeobuf (national + per-FSA) — cloud-native, streaming, spatially indexed. Recommended for GIS and geospatial pipelines.
- GeoParquet (national + per-FSA) — columnar, zstd-compressed. Recommended for Athena, DuckDB, Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery.
- ESRI Shapefile (by province/territory) — for legacy desktop GIS.
- GeoJSON (per-FSA, WGS84) — for web mapping and quick inspection.
- CSV + WKT (by province/territory, gzip) — for direct database loading, with WGS84 centroid columns.
Specifications
- Coverage: Canada — all 10 provinces and 3 territories, 1,643 / 1,643 StatCan 2021 FSAs
- Features: 1,057,110 (881,030 postal-code polygons, 176,080 unassigned components)
- Geometry: 100% valid, single-part polygons; 0 gaps, 0 overlaps within any FSA
- CRS: EPSG:3347 (FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, Shapefile); EPSG:4326 (GeoJSON, CSV)
- Documentation: data dictionary, format guide, shapefile field mapping, per-FSA index, load examples (GDAL, GeoPandas, DuckDB, PostGIS, MySQL), validation report, SHA-256 checksums
- Release cadence: Monthly
Typical uses
- Geocoding and reverse geocoding at postal-code resolution
- Territory design, service-area planning, delivery and franchise zone mapping
- Joining demographic, census, or market data on postal code
- Point-in-polygon enrichment of customer, asset, transaction, or event data
- Address validation and postal-code assignment
Trial data: a free 30-day trial of this product is available here .
See an example polygon: V3S0L2 .
Published by Geolytica Inc., operator of geocoder.ca — Canadian geocoding since 2005 — and geocode.xyz. Clients include TomTom, HERE, Telus, Deloitte, and Oracle.
Highlights
- Complete national coverage: polygon boundaries for all 881,030 Canadian postal codes across every one of the 1,643 Statistics Canada 2021 FSAs. Cells partition each FSA exactly — zero gaps, zero overlaps, 100% valid geometry — so point-in-polygon lookups always resolve.
- Evidence you can audit: every polygon is derived from confidence-weighted geocoded address points and ships with the counts behind it (points used, outliers rejected, containment mass). Filter by quality, spot weakly-supported cells, and trust the polygons you keep.
- Five formats, identical content: FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV+WKT. Includes a full data dictionary, load examples for GDAL / GeoPandas / DuckDB / PostGIS / MySQL, per-FSA index, validation report, and SHA-256 checksums for every archive.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
Product Access | Dimension that grants access to the product for subscribers. | $3,950.00 |
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This listing uses a single contract-based pricing option: Product Access, billed in units. You buy access to the Canada postal code boundary dataset under one flat structure, not tiered plans or usage-based metering. The dataset includes the national postal code polygon file, delivered as a tessellation with no gaps or overlaps between adjacent areas. Pricing does not scale by lookup volume or server size. You gain download access to the polygon data with an unrestricted use license. For customized versions or added fields, you contact the vendor directly.
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One unit grants download access to the Canada postal code dataset. This includes the postal code file, the postal code and street address file, and the postal code area polygons file. The polygons cover over 850,000 verified postal codes, delivered as a tessellation with no gaps or overlaps.
The Product Access unit is a flat contract price. It does not scale with the number of postal codes or with data volume. Regular monthly updates of the database are offered. For customized versions with added city, street, or census fields, you contact the vendor directly.
This is a contract-based data purchase, not usage-metered API access. You buy download access to the polygon dataset under one flat structure with an unrestricted use license. Charges do not accrue per lookup or per request. Download is immediate upon purchase.
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You will receive access to the following data sets.
Data set name | Type | Historical revisions | Future revisions | Sensitive information | Data dictionaries | Data samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Postal-Code-Polygons | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included | Not included | ||
CanadaPostalCodePolygons | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included | Not included |
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