Huron East | |
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Municipality of Huron East | |
Coordinates: 43°37′30″N81°17′04″W / 43.625°N 81.2844°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Ontario |
County | Huron |
Settled | 1830s |
Formed | 2001 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Bernie MacLellan |
• Deputy Mayor | Alvin McLellan |
• Federal riding | Huron—Bruce |
• Prov. riding | Huron—Bruce |
Area | |
• Land | 669.26 km2 (258.40 sq mi) |
Population (2021) [2] | |
• Total | 9,512 |
• Density | 13.8/km2 (36/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Postal Code | N0K, N0G |
Area code(s) | 519 and 226 |
Website | www |
The Municipality of Huron East is a Canadian municipality located in Huron County, Ontario. It was formed in 2001 as an amalgamation of the former Grey, McKillop and Tuckersmith townships with the town of Seaforth and village of Brussels, due to an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The municipality is structured as five wards based on the former townships, town and village.
In January of 2022, then eighteen-year-old Justin Morrison became the youngest person in the history of Huron East to become a municipal councilor [3]
Besides the town of Seaforth and the village of Brussels, the municipality of Huron East comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including:
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1996 | 9,937 | — |
2001 | 9,680 | −2.6% |
2006 | 9,310 | −3.8% |
2011 | 9,264 | −0.5% |
2016 | 9,138 | −1.4% |
2021 | 9,512 | +4.1% |
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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Huron East had a population of 9,512 living in 3,707 of its 3,912 total private dwellings, a change of 4.1% from its 2016 population of 9,138. With a land area of 669.15 km2 (258.36 sq mi), it had a population density of 14.2/km2 (36.8/sq mi) in 2021. [6]
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