1 Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite H1255, Montréal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.
2 Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada.
3 Concordia University Library, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, J.W. McConnell Building S-LB 509-03, Montréal, Québec H3G 1M8, Canada.

The dataset presented here provides the degree of urban sprawl across 33 Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) in Canada of 2011 together with the 469 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) located within the 2011 boundaries of the CMAs, for the years 1991, 2001, and 2011. The dataset contains the values of weighted urban proliferation (WUP) and weighted sprawl per capita (WSPC) and their components. The landscape-oriented value of WUP indicates how strongly the landscape within the boundaries of a reporting unit is sprawled per square meter, while WSPC is inhabitant-oriented and reveals how much on average an inhabitant or workplace is contributing to urban sprawl in the reporting unit. The values of the components of the WUP and WSPC metrics are provided as well: percentage of built-up area (PBA), urban dispersion (DIS), land uptake per person (LUP), and urban permeation (UP). The values of full-time equivalents for the numbers of jobs, which were considered in the calculation of LUP values (pertaining to the number of inhabitants and jobs) are also included in order to facilitate future research.