Quebec address data
Free civic address points and derived postal code points for Quebec, by census division or for the whole province.
| Address points | 3,480,000 |
| Postal code points | 199,300 |
| Municipal sources | 11 |
| Vintage | 2026 H2 |
| Coverage | Complete |
| Formats | GeoPackage, CSV |
| Projection | WGS84, EPSG:4326 |
What coverage means here
Quebec is flagged Complete, which means the register carries broad coverage here and a municipal source is available for much of the population.
Coverage is weakest in recently built areas everywhere, because the register publishes an address only once two independent sources agree on it. Where a municipal source is available it shows new construction sooner — see choosing between them.
What is distinctive about QC address data
Quebec has a provincial address framework that gives it more consistent coverage than provinces relying on municipal publishing alone. Address structure differs from the rest of the country in ways worth knowing before processing.
The thing that trips people up
Street names carry French generics and articles — rue, avenue, boulevard, chemin, and names like Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Standardisation preserves these rather than translating them, and accented characters are retained. Loading with the wrong encoding will corrupt a large share of the file.
Sources available
National register. The Statistics Canada National Address Register covers all of Quebec, refreshed twice a year. Carries unit counts at every building location, and census identifiers we attribute at current vintage.
Municipal open data. 11 municipalities in Quebec publish their own address files under licences permitting redistribution. Where one covers your area you can download it instead of, or alongside, the national extract.
Montréal and several other cities publish open data. Provincial coverage is more even than in most provinces regardless.
Where both cover an area, the download page shows them on one map with a toggle between sources so you can see the difference before choosing. Choosing between them covers the trade in general.
Municipal sources in Quebec
Each has its own page covering how its schema maps to ours, how it compares with the national register, its licence terms, and when it was last ingested.
- Montréal — address data
- Québec City — address data
- Laval — address data
- Gatineau — address data
- Longueuil — address data
- Sherbrooke — address data
- Saguenay — address data
- Lévis — address data
- Trois-Rivières — address data
- Terrebonne — address data
- Repentigny — address data
By census division
- Montréal
- Communauté-Urbaine-de-Québec
- Laval
- Longueuil
Every census division in Quebec is available separately, and larger urban divisions are further split by municipality. Browse them from the Quebec downloads page.
Postal code points
Postal code points for Quebec are calculated from the positions of the addresses carrying each code — 199,300 of them in the current release.
Each carries the number of addresses behind it and how far they spread, which is how you tell an urban code serving one blockface from a rural code covering a route. Derived from the National Address Register, not supplied by a postal authority, and not certified for mailing.
Getting the files
Free. Register with an email address and download at full coverage — there is no trimmed free tier and no paid tier above it.
Licensing is short: broad internal use, attribution required, no redistribution of the raw files.
Working with it
- Loading into PostGIS — ogr2ogr, indexes, and the longitude-first trap
- Projections and CRS — why it ships in WGS84 and when to reproject
- Geocoding with postal codes — matching without a street name