{
 "title": "Dow's Lake, Ottawa: neighbourhood factsheet",
 "name": "Dow's Lake",
 "slug": "dows-lake",
 "summary": "Dow's Lake is a small man-made lake on the Rideau Canal in the middle of Ottawa, and the neighbourhood sits on its east side. The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study's 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area had 13,565 residents in the 2021 census.",
 "centre": [
  45.394615,
  -75.701608
 ],
 "boundaries": "Wikipedia describes the Dow's Lake neighbourhood as the area north of the Rideau Canal, east of Dow's Lake, south of Carling Avenue and west of Bronson Avenue, and part of the wider Glebe. Census figures on this page use the larger ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area. Boundary shape: OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4228695 (ODbL).",
 "boundaries_source": [
  "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/neighbourhoods"
 ],
 "housing": "In the ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area, which is larger than the neighbourhood, 2021 census figures show 27.6% single-detached houses, 8.5% semi-detached, 6.1% row houses, 5.3% duplex flats, 29.4% apartments in buildings under five storeys and 22.7% in buildings of five or more storeys. 14.4% of dwellings are condominiums, and 51.3% of households rent. We have no source on the age of the homes.",
 "housing_source": [
  "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Population (2021), ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "13,565",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Private dwellings (2021), ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "6,885",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Median age (2021), ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "41.2",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Average household size (2021), ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "2.1",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Children 0-14, share of population, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "11.8%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Renter households, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "51.3%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Owner households, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "48.7%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Single-detached houses, share of dwellings, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "27.6%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Apartments in 5+ storey buildings, share of dwellings, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "22.7%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Condominium dwellings, share of private dwellings, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "14.4%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "French most spoken at home, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "6.3%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Average after-tax income among recipients, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "$66,500",
   "as_of": "2021 Census (2020 income)",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Workers who commute by public transit, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "8.8%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Workers who work at home, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "55.1%",
   "as_of": "2021",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "census",
   "label": "Tree canopy cover, ONS 'Glebe - Dows Lake' area",
   "value": "25.9%",
   "as_of": "2024",
   "source": [
    "https://ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Schools inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 5,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://dowslake.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Parks & places inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 15,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://dowslake.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  },
  {
   "section": "counts",
   "label": "Shops & restaurants inside the neighbourhood (this guide)",
   "value": 11,
   "as_of": "2026-10-30",
   "source": [
    "https://dowslake.homes/data/places.json"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "community_associations": [
  "Glebe Community Association (the Glebe, which Wikipedia says includes the Dow's Lake neighbourhood; Wikipedia also names a separate Dow's Lake Residents Association, but gives no link)"
 ],
 "page": "https://dowslake.homes/neighbourhoods/dows-lake/",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0 for this compilation (credit dowslake.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"
}