Economic Development Dashboard

Huron County’s Economic Development Dashboard collects social and economic indicators from a wide variety of sources and presents them in one central location. The information presented here – everything from unemployment rates to real estate trends and agricultural production statistics – is regularly updated and is collected by either Huron County staff or by reliable third-parties, such as Statistics Canada. This tool is particularly useful to realtors, investors, researchers, and all manner of community groups.

• Labour force statistics:
  • These come to us from Statistics Canada, where they are collected via the monthly Labour Force Survey. More information can be found at Statistics Canada; Labour force characteristics, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality, last 5 months
• Employment by industry and occupation
  • These come to us from Statistics Canada, where they are collected via the monthly Labour Force Survey. More information can be found at Statistics Canada; Employment by industry, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality (x 1,000) and Statistics Canada; Employment by occupation, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality (x 1,000)
• Employment Insurance Beneficiaries
  • This information is reported monthly to Statistics Canada by the Employment Insurance Program. More information can be found at Statistics Canada; Employment insurance beneficiaries by census division, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
• Real estate prices
  • This information comes from reports provided monthly to the Canadian Real Estate Association by local real estate Boards and Associations, and is based on activity over their MLS® Systems. More information can be found at The Canadian Real Estate Association, National Price Map
• Consumer confidence
  • This is based on survey data collected by the Conference Board of Canada. For more information please visit The Conference Board of Canada, Index of consumer confidence
• Business Barometer
  • This is based on a survey data collected monthly by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. For more information please visit Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Business Barometer
• Business Counts
  • This is based on tax filing data used to populate the Canadian Business Register. For more information please see the Canadian Business Register
• 2021 Economic Report
  • This data is based on findings from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Confidence Survey. More information can be found at Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 2021 Ontario Economic Report
• Bankruptcies
  • Bankruptcy filings are tracked and reported on by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada, an agency of the federal government. For further information please visit Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada
• Job Bank Canada data
  • This information is scraped from postings on the online Jobs Bank Canada portal. For more information please visit Jobs Bank Canada, Trend Analysis
• Community indicators from the Canadian Index of Wellbeing
  • This information is based on survey data collected by the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, which is based at the University of Waterloo. For more information, visit the myPerthHuron site: Canadian Index of Well Being
• Agriculture statistics
  • These indicators are reported by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs. A range of methodologies are used. Please visit Province of Ontario, Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs for more details.
• Commercial vacancy rates
  • These numbers are collected semi-annually by the County of Huron. Staff visit every commercially-zoned property in the County to visually record whether it is vacant or occupied.