PRIZM®
PRIZM®
Canada’s leading segmentation system for understanding customers and markets
PRIZM® features 67 segments that capture current demographics, lifestyles and values in Canada. PRIZM is a registered trademark of Claritas, LLC. Developed using dozens of authoritative data sources, PRIZM gives you access to over 40,000 data points and can be combined with your own customer data. With a bold new look, updated icons, and refined tools, PRIZM® 2025 is in tune with the changing face of Canada.
The latest edition of PRIZM® captures the dynamic shifts in Canadian demographics driven by immigration, internal migration, and an aging population. Whether you're a business, non-profit, or government agency, PRIZM® empowers you to understand your audience with precision and activate your media strategies with confidence. The 2025 update reflects real-world changes in neighbourhoods across the country, as Canadians move through life stages and across regions, reshaping communities in the process.
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PRIZM® Highlights
Get a glimpse into deeper demographic and behavioural insights on PRIZM®’s 67 lifestyle segments with our new PRIZM® Highlights dashboard. This interactive tool leverages select databases to provide high-level segment characteristics, including who they are, how they think, what they do and how to reach them.
Understand your customers
Differentiate products and services based on your best customers, prospects and competitors.
Identify top markets
Pinpoint high-potential neighbourhoods and markets.
Execute your strategy
Determine the right products, media and messages for reaching your customers.
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See Canada Through a Whole New PRIZM
Now in its fourth generation, PRIZM and the databases it connects to offer users access to more than 40,000 data points about consumers’ motivations and behaviours.
Gain a fresh perspective on Canada’s distinct markets and communities
- 67 PRIZM segments reflect the evolution of Canada’s lifestyles and increasing cultural diversity including 14 francophone segments and 16 segments with high immigrant populations.
- New segments capture social currents including the growing prominence of millennials, an increasing senior population and the rise in multigenerational households.
- A new "Urban Fringe" classification highlights once-suburban areas that are now much more urban as a result of intensification.
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Answer key marketing questions about customers
- Who are they (age, wealth, diversity, education)?
- What are they like (sports, leisure, arts, spending)?
- Where do they live, work and shop?
- How do they think (psychographics, values)?
- How can they be reached (media preferences)?
Accurate, comprehensive and privacy-compliant information
- PRIZM is developed by leading experts in Canadian demographics and geography at the city, provincial and regional levels.
- Access information at all levels of geography down to the postal code and dissemination area.
- Built with psychographic information to better understand the drivers behind behaviours and consumer choices.
Find more information about the PRIZM database including metadata, release notes, technical documents and glossaries on our community site.
PRIZM case studies
Businesses, not-for-profits and government agencies all use PRIZM to analyze and engage their customers and markets.
See how we help organizations use data analytics for evidence-based decision making to improve marketing, guide high-level strategic planning and drive operational improvements.
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