{
 "title": "Constance Bay, Ottawa: neighbourhood factsheet",
 "name": "Constance Bay",
 "slug": "constancebay",
 "summary": "Constance Bay is an Ottawa River village in rural northwest Ottawa, in West Carleton-March Ward. It grew from a cottage community into a place of year-round residence, a transition documented in the City’s 2012 community plan. Torbolton Forest lies within the village. The community centre and its Ottawa Public Library branch provide a local focus for activities and services. By car, downtown Ottawa (Parliament Hill) is about 46.9 km away, roughly 46 minutes in free-flowing traffic (OSRM estimate).",
 "centre": [
  45.4862294,
  -76.0735671
 ],
 "boundaries": "The village occupies the peninsula between Constance and Buckham’s bays, around Torbolton Forest. Ottawa’s secondary-plan boundary includes land north and west of Constance Bay Road towards Kilmaurs Side Road; Schedule A shows the mapped limit. Village-planning, census and community-association definitions differ.",
 "boundaries_source": [
  "https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/default/files/village_constancebay_op_sec_plan_en.pdf",
  "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/364553897"
 ],
 "housing": "Ottawa’s secondary plan describes predominantly detached dwellings, houses and cottages among mature trees, and conversion of seasonal residences to year-round homes.",
 "housing_source": [
  "https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/default/files/village_constancebay_op_sec_plan_en.pdf"
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Population — Constance Bay population centre",
   "value": "2,263 residents",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?geocode=S05100665&pid=9810000601"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Total private dwellings — Constance Bay population centre",
   "value": "1,107",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?geocode=S05100075&pid=9810001101"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Private dwellings occupied by usual residents — Constance Bay population centre",
   "value": "988",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?geocode=S05100075&pid=9810001101"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Land area — Constance Bay population centre",
   "value": "5.56 km²",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?geocode=S05100665&pid=9810000601"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Municipal ward",
   "value": "Ward 5 — West Carleton-March",
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Carleton-March_Ward"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Torbolton Forest area reported by the City",
   "value": "260 hectares",
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://ottawa.ca/en/living-ottawa/environment-conservation-and-climate/conservation-areas/torbolton-forest"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Schools inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 0,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://constancebay.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Parks & places inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 7,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://constancebay.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Shops & restaurants inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 1,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://constancebay.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "community_associations": [
  "Constance & Buckham’s Bay Community Association (CBBCA)"
 ],
 "page": "https://constancebay.homes/neighbourhoods/constancebay/",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0 for this compilation (credit constancebay.homes). Census figures: Statistics Canada 2021 Census via the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Walk times and counts are derived from OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0).",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "generated": "2026-10-30"
}