Independent dashboards and practical tools about Calgary’s housing, wages, schools, safety, and long-run trends.
YYC-Wander is an independent Calgary data project built with public open data, interactive dashboards, and practical lookup tools.
This site combines Calgary-focused insights on property tax, baby names, housing, crime, schools, public health, wages, and long-run urban trends.
These dashboards are not about just one conclusion — they reveal patterns across time, communities, and regions.
Different people, needs, and situations will notice different signals — because these dashboards and tools are meant to be explored.
Practical tools for Calgary property, schools, safety, and everyday insights.
Enter your hourly wage and compare it with your industry and the Calgary average(Feb 2026). See where you stand, how your pay has changed over time, and which industries pay more or less.
Search a Calgary residential property to see estimated tax by year, total tax paid since 2005, assessed value history, and community comparison.
Search a baby name to explore its popularity in Alberta. Instantly see the total number of babies, the peak popularity year, how often the name was used in 2024, and the historical boy–girl split from 1980–2024.
Compare how Calgary’s housing market is shifting across communities — prices, rent levels, and buy-versus-rent signals.
How detached home prices have evolved and diverged across Calgary communities over time.
Apartment benchmark trends by year and region — affordability and recovery insights.
Tracking long-run buy-versus-rent signals through the Calgary price-to-rent ratio.
Track new listings, sales, inventory and months of supply to read Calgary’s housing market temperature.
Rental market comparison for 1-bedroom units across major Canadian cities, including Calgary.
See how each neighbourhood is made up of Detached, Semi, Row, and Apartment homes — a clear view of density and living styles across Calgary.
For parents and planners — understand school capacity, utilization, and academic rankings across Calgary.
Community-level view of population per km² and residential properties per km² across Calgary.
Interactive rankings by school, grade, and year, highlighting academic performance patterns across Calgary.
Map and time-series views of capacity, weighted enrolment, and utilization rate (%) across Calgary public schools.
See how Calgary’s crime patterns have changed over time and how they compare with other Canadian cities.
Community-level crime patterns to inform local prevention efforts and resource allocation.
These dashboards help residents and policymakers understand neighbourhood-level crime trends, seasonality, and long-term patterns across Calgary.
Exploring potential relationships between crime trends, temperature, and job market conditions, with tools to compare seasons, years, and indicators.
Connect Calgary’s labour market and energy cycles — unemployment, wages, and WCS oil price.
Calgary’s unemployment dynamics plotted against WCS Oil Price — where cycles move together, and where local conditions break away from the oil story.
See how Calgary’s labour market shifts across industries — year-over-year changes plus a year-specific pie to quickly read which sectors are gaining or losing share.
Track total businesses, new incorporations, and 1/3/5-year survival across Alberta’s major cities.
Quick insights with everyday relevance for Calgarians — safety, neighbourhoods, wages, and local trends.
Compare your hourly wage with your industry average, the Calgary average, and recent wage trends using real local labour market data.
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See how your home’s value changed, how much tax it has generated since 2005, and how it compares with similar homes in your community.
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A data story using Alberta Vital Statistics showing how baby names shifted from a few dominant classics in the 1980s to today’s highly diverse naming culture.
A data-driven comparison across 7-year, 3-year, and 1-year windows, using CPS public crime reporting.
A Calgary data story on wages, rent, and why front-line restaurant workers’ rights often stay on paper.
Track substance-related harms and public health pressures in Calgary over time.
Emergency department visits related to substance use — highlighting peak seasons, regional patterns, and hospital pressure over time.
Naloxone kit distribution by site type and zone — visualizing coverage, gaps, and equity across Calgary’s harm reduction network.
Breakdown of opioid deaths by site types and zones to support targeted interventions across Calgary’s neighbourhoods.
Browse dashboards in Civic & Social Analytics, Public Health Analytics, Crime & Disorder Insights, Housing Market Insights, Economy & Energy. Read long-form analysis in the Blog or learn more about my background on the About page.