Address Validation API for Canada — 19M Records + Free Census Geography | Acuris

🇨🇦 CANADA

Address validation API for Canada.

Validate and geocode Canadian addresses to the house number against 19 million reference records — standardizing the A1A 1A1 postal code, street, city and province, with coordinates and free census geography (census tract, dissemination area, CSD, CMA and federal electoral district).

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✓ Built on 19 million house-number-level Canadian address records.
19M
house-numbered addresses
13
provinces & territories
A1A 1A1
postal standardization
Free
census geography
One call in · a complete record out

What a Canadian validation returns

Send a partial or mistyped address; get back a standardized, geocoded record — plus the Statistics Canada geography that analytics and public-sector workflows need, at no extra cost.

You send
80 wellington st
ottawa
↓ /validate
You get back
street80 Wellington St
city / provinceOttawa, ON
postal_codeK1A 0A2
lat / lng45.42340, -75.70190
census_subdivisionFREEOttawa (3506008)
census_tractFREE5050007.00
dissemination_areaFREE35060746
cmaFREEOttawa–Gatineau
federal_electoral_districtFREEOttawa Centre
av_statusVerified

// illustrative example. Census geography is returned on street-accurate matches.

Coverage for Canada

Everything a Canadian address workflow needs

Validation

Deliverable to the house number

19 million records carry a house number, so you validate and correct to the exact address, standardize the A1A 1A1 postal code and street, and flag what changed — across all 10 provinces and 3 territories, in both official languages.

Geocoding

Coordinates for every match

Latitude/longitude returned for every validated Canadian address, for mapping, routing, service areas and territory analysis.

Enrichment · included

Free census geography

Every street-accurate match can return the census tract, dissemination area, census subdivision (CSD), census metropolitan area / agglomeration (CMA/CA), census division and federal electoral district — sourced from Statistics Canada. Enrichment the enterprise vendors gate behind contracts.

Your data

Keep your results

Store and reuse validated Canadian addresses for your own internal business use — no 30-day-delete rule, no "no repository" clause. See how that compares →

Reference · the Canadian address format

How Canadian addresses are structured

Number + street80 Wellington St — civic number first, then street name, type and optional direction (SW, O for ouest).
City, ProvinceOttawa, ON — municipality and the 2-letter province/territory code.
Postal codeK1A 0A2 — six characters in a letter-digit-letter · digit-letter-digit pattern; the FSA (first three) plus number narrows delivery precisely.
Census geographyStatistics Canada identifiers — census tract, dissemination area, CSD, CMA and federal electoral district — returned free for joins to the Census and other public datasets.
Straight answers

Canadian address validation, answered

How complete is the Canadian coverage? +
19 million house-number-level records across all 10 provinces and 3 territories, in English and French. Each record has a house number, so validation resolves to the exact address, not the postal code or city.
Does it handle the A1A 1A1 postal format? +
Yes. Canadian postal codes (letter-digit-letter, space, digit-letter-digit) are standardized and validated, and combined with the civic number they identify a Canadian address reliably even from partial input.
What enrichment is included for free? +
Statistics Canada census geography, at no extra cost. Every street-accurate Canadian validation can return the census tract, dissemination area, census subdivision (CSD), CMA/CA, census division and federal electoral district — ideal for demographics joins, catchment analysis and public-sector reporting.
Can I store the validated Canadian addresses? +
Yes, for your own internal business use. Unlike the big mapping APIs (30-day-delete or no-repository terms), Acuris lets you keep and reuse validated Canadian results — you just can't resell or redistribute them as a dataset. See the storage-rights comparison →
🇨🇦 Canada

Validate, geocode and enrich Canadian addresses — free to start

House-number accuracy, A1A 1A1 standardization, coordinates and free census geography. Keep every result for internal use.

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Coverage figures reflect the Acuris Canada reference database (~19 million house-number-level records across all 10 provinces and 3 territories). Census geography enrichment derives from Statistics Canada boundary files (census tract, dissemination area, census subdivision, CMA/CA, census division, federal electoral district). Example responses are illustrative. Validated results may be stored for internal business use and are not for resale or redistribution. Verified July 2026.