Apartment Building Evaluation

RentSafeTO: Apartment Building Standards is a bylaw enforcement program established in 2017 to ensure that owners and operators of apartment buildings with three or more storeys or 10 or more units comply with building maintenance standards. Learn more about RentSafeTO.

This dataset contains building evaluation scores for buildings registered with RentSafeTO. During evaluations, Bylaw Enforcement Officers inspect common areas, mechanical and security systems, parking and exterior grounds.

In 2023, RentsafeTO updated its evaluation process. Buildings must undergo evaluation at least once every two years, increasing the number of evaluation categories to 50 and allocating a weight to the category.

Each category item is inspected and assigned a score from one to three with one being the lowest and three being the highest. At times, an item may be assigned a score of 0 if it cannot be evaluated due to an obstruction or refusal to inspect. Additionally, if an item is not applicable to the building at the time of evaluation, the score will show as blank in the dataset.

To download data from building evaluations before 2023, please download “Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations" and “Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current” to download data from building evaluations from 2023 and beyond.

Learn more about RentSafeTO: Evaluation Tool – City of Toronto.

Datasets available for download

• Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current.csvCSV
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current.xmlXML
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current.jsonJSON
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Pre-2023 Apartment Building EvaluationsCSV
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations.csvCSV
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations.xmlXML
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations.jsonJSON
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource
• Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - currentCSV
  To Download

  • More information
  • Go to resource

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (46%)
• Maturity Level 2 (46%)
• Maturity Level 3 (0%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	City government, Locations and mapping, Business
Title Title for the Dataset.	Apartment Building Evaluation
Description A description of the dataset.	RentSafeTO: Apartment Building Standards is a bylaw enforcement program established in 2017 to ensure that owners and operators of apartment buildings with three or more storeys or 10 or more units comply with building maintenance standards. Learn more about RentSafeTO. This dataset contains building evaluation scores for buildings registered with RentSafeTO. During evaluations, Bylaw Enforcement Officers inspect common areas, mechanical and security systems, parking and exterior grounds. In 2023, RentsafeTO updated its evaluation process. Buildings must undergo evaluation at least once every two years, increasing the number of evaluation categories to 50 and allocating a weight to the category. Each category item is inspected and assigned a score from one to three with one being the lowest and three being the highest. At times, an item may be assigned a score of 0 if it cannot be evaluated due to an obstruction or refusal to inspect. Additionally, if an item is not applicable to the building at the time of evaluation, the score will show as blank in the dataset. To download data from building evaluations before 2023, please download “Pre-2023 Apartment Building Evaluations" and “Apartment Building Evaluations 2023 - current” to download data from building evaluations from 2023 and beyond. Learn more about RentSafeTO: Evaluation Tool – City of Toronto.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2019-08-23
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence – Toronto
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/apartment-building-evaluation
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Municipal Licensing & Standards, [email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.	[email protected]
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/rental-housing-standards/apartment-building-standards/
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

Please login or register to comment.