Senior Care Path Releases Free Open Data on Senior Care Costs and Providers Across Canada

What's being released

Starting today, the numbers behind Senior Care Path's data reports are free to download from our new open data page, as CSV and JSON files. There are five datasets:

Every file is rebuilt daily from our live listings, so it always matches the figures on the report pages.

Free to reuse, with credit

The data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Anyone can use it in articles, research, classes, planning documents or their own tools, commercially or not, as long as they credit Senior Care Path and link to the source report. Each dataset comes with a ready-to-copy citation.

Why we're doing this

Families making a senior care decision are often working from guesses. Fewer than 1 in 10 Canadian providers publish a price, and public figures on what private-pay care costs are scattered or out of date. Reporters, researchers and planners run into the same gap.

As of this release, the national median reported starting rate is about $3,500 a month for retirement living, about $3,600 for assisted living and about $4,200 for memory care, with Ontario retirement living at about $4,000. Those are the kinds of figures people search for every day, and now they can be checked, cited and built on.

What's in it, and what isn't

The datasets hold aggregate figures only. They never include personal details, the listing directory itself or any one provider's prices. A median is published only where at least five listings post a rate, so no single home's price can be worked out.

Search-demand figures from our keyword research tools are not included, because those tools don't allow their numbers to be redistributed. They still appear, summarised, on our demand by city report.

For media and researchers

Need a cut we don't publish, such as a single city or care type over time? Contact our team and we'll do our best to help.