Ised household broadband: toronto 950 mbps weighted max, 87% at 50/10

OpenStats now ranks Canadian hometown connectivity from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada National Broadband Data using dwelling-weighted household coverage and dwelling-weighted maximum advertised speeds. The internet atlas carries verified ISP rows on 321 direct-tier cities, and the 2025 broadband download study feeds the City Score connectivity pillar from the same math.

Metric definition

Each ISED hex reports 2021 total private dwellings and a household coverage gradient for 50/10 Mbps (Expr2). OpenStats assigns hex centroids to municipalities only when they fall inside the official Statistics Canada 2021 census subdivision polygon for that city (digital boundary file lcsd000a21s_e). City rollups weight each hex by total private dwellings inside the polygon. The 50/10 percentage is the dwelling-weighted mean of ISED gradient midpoints. Maximum advertised Mbps per hex uses the higher of the ISED 50/10 tier floor from Expr2 and the ISP technology ceiling from ISP_Hex (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps where listed). The study ranks cities on weighted maximum Mbps for 2025; atlas pages show both percentages and ISP bars.

Why Calgary and Airdrie now match the map pin

An earlier 80 km gravity rule pulled rural fringe hexes into city totals, which pushed Calgary to 64% at 50/10 while the ISED community pin read 87.5%. Containment on StatCan CSD boundaries removes those exurban hexes. Airdrie also uses CSDUID 4806021 (the city polygon) rather than a neighbouring county code. Spot checks on twelve labelled ISED community points now show zero percentage-point gap between the city rollup and the pin hex reading.

Reading atlas pages

Direct-tier badges on the internet atlas mean a hometown matched ISED hexes with a matching CSD polygon and at least one contained hex. Compare city-wide weighted figures to the broadband download study 2025 and the broadband speeds guide when you write about City Score connectivity standing.