List of cities in Ontario

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A city is a subtype of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. A city can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality. Prior to 2003, Ontario had minimum population thresholds of 15,000 and 25,000 for city status. Minimum population thresholds are no longer necessary for a municipality to brand itself as a city.

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Ontario has 52 cities, [1] which together had in 2016 a cumulative population of 9,900,179 and average population of 190,388. [2] The most and least populous are Toronto and Dryden, with 2,794,356 and 7,749 residents, respectively. [2] Ontario's newest city is Richmond Hill, whose council voted to change from a town to a city on March 26, 2019. [3] Previous to that, Markham changed from a town to a city on July 1, 2012. [4]

History

Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a city was both an urban and a local municipality. [5] Under that act, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) could change the status of a village or town, upon its request, to a city if it had a population of 15,000 or more. [5] The OMB could also incorporate a township as a city under the same conditions with the exception that the population requirements was 25,000 or more. [5] In either event, if located within a county, authorization by the Minister of Municipal Affairs was also required. [5]

In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, conventional municipal statuses and their associated population threshold requirements were abandoned. On December 31, 2002, every city that: [6]

The current legislation also provides lower- and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "cities", or other former conventional municipal status types such as "towns", "villages" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities". [7]

List

Name [1] [8] Municipal status [1] Census division [1] [9] Population (2021) [10] Population (2016) [10] Change (%) [10] Area (km2) [10] Population density [10]
Barrie [ON 1] Single-tierSimcoe147,829141,434+4.5%99.011,493.1
Belleville Single-tierHastings55,07150,716+8.6%247.15222.8
Brampton Lower-tierPeel656,480593,638+10.6%265.892,469.0
Brant Single-tierBrant39,47435,640+10.8%817.6648.3
Brantford [ON 2] Single-tierBrant104,68898,563+6.2%98.651,061.2
Brockville Single-tierLeeds and Grenville22,11621,569+2.5%20.911,057.7
Burlington Lower-tierHalton186,948183,314+2.0%186.121,004.4
Cambridge [ON 3] Lower-tierWaterloo138,479129,920+6.6%112.991,225.6
Clarence-Rockland Lower-tierPrescott and Russell26,50524,512+8.1%297.4789.1
Cornwall Single-tierStormont, Dundas and Glengarry47,84546,589+2.7%61.50778.0
Dryden [ON 4] Single-tierKenora7,3887,749−4.7%65.58112.7
Elliot Lake Single-tierAlgoma11,37210,741+5.9%696.0616.3
Greater Sudbury [ON 5] Single-tierSudbury166,004161,531+2.8%3,186.2652.1
Guelph Single-tierWellington143,740131,794+9.1%87.431,644.1
Haldimand County Single-tierHaldimand49,21645,608+7.9%1,250.4539.4
Hamilton [ON 6] Single-tierHamilton569,353536,917+6.0%1,118.31509.1
Kawartha Lakes Single-tierKawartha Lakes79,24775,423+5.1%3,033.6626.1
Kenora Single-tierKenora14,96715,096−0.9%211.6570.7
Kingston Single-tierFrontenac132,485123,798+7.0%451.58293.4
Kitchener [ON 7] Lower-tierWaterloo256,885233,222+10.1%136.811,877.7
London [ON 8] Single-tierMiddlesex422,324383,822+10.0%420.501,004.3
Markham Lower-tierYork338,503328,966+2.9%210.931,604.8
Mississauga [ON 9] Lower-tierPeel717,961721,599−0.5%292.742,452.6
Niagara Falls [ON 10] Lower-tierNiagara94,41588,071+7.2%210.25449.1
Norfolk County Single-tierNorfolk67,49064,044+5.4%1,597.6842.2
North Bay Single-tierNipissing52,66251,553+2.2%315.53166.9
Orillia Single-tierSimcoe33,41131,166+7.2%28.531,171.1
Oshawa [ON 11] Lower-tierDurham175,383159,458+10.0%145.721,203.6
Ottawa [ON 12] Single-tierOttawa1,017,449934,243+8.9%2,788.20364.9
Owen Sound Lower-tierGrey21,61221,341+1.3%24.21892.7
Pembroke [ON 13] Single-tierRenfrew14,36413,882+3.5%14.321,003.1
Peterborough [ON 14] Single-tierPeterborough83,65181,032+3.2%64.761,291.7
Pickering Lower-tierDurham99,18691,771+8.1%231.10429.2
Port Colborne Lower-tierNiagara20,03318,306+9.4%121.99164.2
Prince Edward County Single-tierPrince Edward25,70424,735+3.9%1,052.6124.4
Quinte West Single-tierHastings46,56043,577+6.8%495.4594.0
Richmond Hill [ON 15] Lower-tierYork202,022195,022+3.6%100.792,004.4
Sarnia Lower-tierLambton72,04771,594+0.6%163.90439.6
Sault Ste. Marie Single-tierAlgoma72,05173,368−1.8%221.99324.6
St. Catharines [ON 16] Lower-tierNiagara136,803133,113+2.8%96.201,422.1
St. Thomas Single-tierElgin42,84038,909+10.1%35.611,203.0
Stratford Single-tierPerth33,23231,470+5.6%30.021,107.0
Temiskaming Shores Single-tierTimiskaming9,6349,920−2.9%176.6754.5
Thorold Lower-tierNiagara23,81618,801+26.7%83.29285.9
Thunder Bay [ON 17] Single-tierThunder Bay108,843107,909+0.9%327.77332.1
Timmins Single-tierCochrane41,14541,788−1.5%2,955.3313.9
Toronto [ON 18] Single-tierToronto2,794,3562,731,571+2.3%631.104,427.8
Vaughan Lower-tierYork323,103306,233+5.5%272.441,186.0
Waterloo [ON 19] Lower-tierWaterloo121,436104,986+15.7%64.061,895.7
Welland Lower-tierNiagara55,75052,293+6.6%81.16686.9
Windsor [ON 20] Single-tierEssex229,660217,188+5.7%146.021,572.8
Woodstock Lower-tierOxford46,70541,098+13.6%56.46827.2
Total cities——10,400,2439,900,603+5.0%25,902.47401.5
Total lower-tier cities——3,714,0723,517,258+5.6%3,154.521,177.4
Total single-tier cities——6,686,1716,383,345+4.7%22,747.95293.9

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The Barrie census metropolitan area (CMA) is formed around the City of Barrie.
  2. ↑ The Brantford CMA includes the City of Brantford as well as the County of Brant, which is a single-tier city.
  3. ↑ The City of Cambridge, as well as the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, form parts of the Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo CMA.
  4. ↑ Dryden is Ontario's smallest city by population.
  5. ↑ Greater Sudbury is Ontario's largest city by area. The Greater Sudbury CMA is formed around the City of Greater Sudbury.
  6. ↑ Hamilton is Canada's tenth-largest city. The Hamilton CMA includes the cities of Burlington and Hamilton.
  7. ↑ The City of Kitchener, as well as the cities of Cambridge and Waterloo, form parts of the Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo CMA.
  8. ↑ The London CMA includes the cities of London and St. Thomas.
  9. ↑ Mississauga is Ontario's largest lower-tier city.
  10. ↑ The City of Niagara Falls, as well as the cities of Port Colborne, St. Catharines, Thorold and Welland, form parts of the St. Catharines–Niagara CMA.
  11. ↑ The Oshawa CMA is formed around the City of Oshawa.
  12. ↑ Ottawa is Canada's capital and fourth-largest city. The Ontario portion of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA includes the cities of Clarence-Rockland and Ottawa.
  13. ↑ Pembroke is Ontario's smallest city by area.
  14. ↑ The Peterborough CMA is formed around the City of Peterborough.
  15. ↑ Richmond Hill is Ontario's newest city, adopting the name on March 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ The City of St. Catharines, as well as the cities of Niagara Falls, Port Colborne, Thorold and Welland, form parts of the St. Catharines–Niagara CMA.
  17. ↑ The Thunder Bay CMA is formed around the City of Thunder Bay.
  18. ↑ Toronto is Ontario's capital and Canada's and Ontario's largest city by population. The Toronto CMA includes the cities of Brampton, Markham, Mississauga, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Toronto and Vaughan.
  19. ↑ The City of Waterloo, as well as the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener, form parts of the Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo CMA.
  20. ↑ The Windsor CMA is formed around the City of Windsor.

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  2. 1 2 "subdivisions (municipalities) and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017.
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  9. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census divisions, 2011 and 2006 censuses (Ontario)". Statistics Canada. January 30, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
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