Business Count

Count your business in!

In an effort to help support our local businesses, Durham Region will be conducting a Business Count from May through August as part of an annual Regional project to gather employment statistics and build a stronger local economy.

Between May and September, the Region's Business Count team contacts each and every business establishment in Durham to gather basic information about the type and nature of the business, the number of employees, floor space, etc. The success of this important survey depends upon the assistance and co-operation of the Region's business community.

Due to the risk of avian flu for poultry operations in Ontario, and in order to reduce the risk of spread, surveyors will not be visiting farms in-person this year. Farm owners will be contacted via phone and encouraged to complete the survey online.

Complete the 2023 Business Count

Business Count Video

Business Count Highlights

How will the information be used?

The information being collected will be used for a variety of purposes:

Monitoring local economic trends.
Preparing the Durham Region and local municipal business directories.
Analyzing and promoting local business sectors for either tourism or business generation.
Developing business attraction and retention strategies.
Forecasting infrastructure and hard service requirements.
Transit service planning.

What about confidentiality?

Data collected may be shared with other government agencies, with sensitive data being used internally only and kept confidential. For a complete listing of how specific data fields are used, please refer to the terms of use.

Contact information

If you have any questions or comments regarding the business count, please contact the
Planning and Economic Development Department

Phone: 905-668-7711 extension. 2548

Fax: 905-666-6208

Email: businesscount@durham.ca

Terms of use

The Region of Durham and its area municipalities will use the data collected through the Business Count as summarized in the following table.

Data	Terms of Use
Business Name	Public
Business Description	Public
General Business Contact Information
Business Address	Public
Mailing Address	Public
Business Phone Number	Public
Business Fax Number	Public
Business Email	Public
Business Website	Public
Business Details
"Are you a manufacturing business? If yes, what market sector does your business serve?"	Aggregate
Home-Based Business	Aggregate
Number of Employees	Aggregate
"Are you hiring in the future?"	Aggregate
"Is your operation unionized?"	Aggregate
Total Floor Space	Aggregate
Farm – Acres	Aggregate
"Are you planning on expanding your floor space?"	Aggregate
"Is your floor space Owned or Leased?"	Aggregate
NAICS	Public
Year Business Established	Aggregate
Year Business Established at this location	Aggregate
Locations outside of the Region	Aggregate
Import/Export	Aggregate
Legal Status	Aggregate
Ownership Form	Aggregate
Skills Shortage	Aggregate
Contact Names	Private
%Employees Working From Home	Aggregate
Working From Home Full/Partial Week	Aggregate
Continuing to Work From Home	Aggregate
Resources	Aggregate

Public

Durham Region and area municipal staff may use this information publicly, unless otherwise notified. For example, this information may be used in a regional or municipal business directory, or on an interactive web map.

Aggregate

Durham Region and area municipal staff may use this information publicly in an aggregated form. For example, the floor space square footage of a specific business will not be made public, but the total amount of floor space in a municipality could be used publicly.

Private

Durham Region and Area municipal staff will only use this information for internal purposes and will not share or publish the information.