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List of cities in Ontario

January 06, 2023

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.

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 2,731,571 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]

  • "existed and formed part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a lower-tier municipality yet retained its name as a city; and
  • "existed and did not form part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a single-tier municipality yet retained its name as a city.

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]

Cities in Ontario

Name[1][8] Municipal
status[1]		 Census division[1][9] Population
(2016)[2]		 Population
(2011)[8]		 Change
(%)[8]		 Area
(km²)[8]		 Population
density[8]
Barrie[note 1] Single-tier Simcoe 141,434 136,063 3.9 99.04 1,428.0
Belleville Single-tier Hastings 50,716 49,454 2.6 247.25 205.1
Brampton Lower-tier Peel 593,638 523,911 13.3 266.36 2,228.7
Brant Single-tier Brant 36,707 35,638 3.0 843.25 43.5
Brantford[note 2] Single-tier Brant 97,496 93,650 4.1 72.44 1,345.9
Brockville Single-tier Leeds and Grenville 21,346 21,870 −2.4 20.85 1,023.6
Burlington Lower-tier Halton 183,314 175,779 4.3 185.66 987.3
Cambridge[note 3] Lower-tier Waterloo 129,920 126,748 2.5 113.01 1,149.6
Clarence-Rockland Lower-tier Prescott and Russell 24,512 23,185 5.7 297.71 82.3
Cornwall Single-tier Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 46,589 46,340 0.5 61.56 756.8
Dryden[note 4] Single-tier Kenora 7,749 7,617 1.7 66.19 117.1
Elliot Lake Single-tier Algoma 10,741 11,348 −5.3 714.65 15.0
Greater Sudbury[note 5] Single-tier Sudbury 161,531 160,274 0.8 3,228.35 50.0
Guelph Single-tier Wellington 131,794 121,688 8.3 87.22 1,511.1
Haldimand County Single-tier Haldimand 45,608 44,876 1.6 1,251.54 36.4
Hamilton[note 6] Single-tier Hamilton 536,917 519,949 3.3 1,117.29 480.6
Kawartha Lakes Single-tier Kawartha Lakes 75,423 73,214 3.0 3,084.38 24.5
Kenora Single-tier Kenora 15,096 15,348 −1.6 211.59 71.3
Kingston Single-tier Frontenac 123,798 123,363 0.4 451.19 274.4
Kitchener[note 7] Lower-tier Waterloo 233,222 219,153 6.4 136.77 1,705.2
London[note 8] Single-tier Middlesex 383,822 366,151 4.8 420.35 913.1
Markham Lower-tier York 328,966 301,709 9.0 212.35 1,549.2
Mississauga[note 9] Lower-tier Peel 721,599 713,443 1.1 292.43 2,467.6
Niagara Falls[note 10] Lower-tier Niagara 88,071 82,997 6.1 209.73 419.9
Norfolk County Single-tier Norfolk 64,044 63,175 1.4 1,607.55 39.8
North Bay Single-tier Nipissing 51,553 53,651 −3.9 319.11 161.6
Orillia Single-tier Simcoe 31,166 30,586 1.9 28.58 1,090.3
Oshawa[note 11] Lower-tier Durham 159,458 149,607 6.6 145.64 1,094.9
Ottawa[note 12] Single-tier Ottawa 934,243 883,391 5.8 2,790.30 334.8
Owen Sound Lower-tier Grey 21,341 21,688 −1.6 24.27 879.2
Pembroke[note 13] Single-tier Renfrew 13,882 14,360 −3.3 14.56 953.3
Peterborough[note 14] Single-tier Peterborough 81,032 78,698 2.9 64.25 1,261.2
Pickering Lower-tier Durham 91,771 88,721 3.4 231.55 396.3
Port Colborne Lower-tier Niagara 18,306 18,424 −0.6 121.96 150.1
Prince Edward County Single-tier Prince Edward 24,735 25,258 −2.1 1,050.49 23.5
Quinte West Single-tier Hastings 43,577 43,086 1.1 494.02 88.2
Richmond Hill[note 15] Lower-tier York 195,022 185,541 5.1 101.11 1,928.8
Sarnia Lower-tier Lambton 71,594 72,366 −1.1 164.85 434.3
Sault Ste. Marie Single-tier Algoma 73,368 75,141 −2.4 223.24 328.6
St. Catharines[note 16] Lower-tier Niagara 133,113 131,400 1.3 96.13 1,384.8
St. Thomas Single-tier Elgin 38,909 37,905 2.6 35.63 1,092.1
Stratford Single-tier Perth 31,465 30,886 1.8 28.28 1,112.5
Temiskaming Shores Single-tier Timiskaming 9,920 10,400 −4.6 178.11 55.7
Thorold Lower-tier Niagara 18,801 17,931 4.9 82.99 226.5
Thunder Bay[note 17] Single-tier Thunder Bay 107,909 108,359 −0.4 328.36 328.6
Timmins Single-tier Cochrane 41,788 43,165 −3.2 2,978.83 14.0
Toronto[note 18] Single-tier Toronto 2,731,571 2,615,060 4.5 630.20 4,334.4
Vaughan Lower-tier York 306,233 288,301 6.2 273.56 1,119.4
Waterloo[note 19] Lower-tier Waterloo 104,986 98,780 6.3 64.02 1,639.8
Welland Lower-tier Niagara 52,293 50,631 3.3 81.04 645.3
Windsor[note 20] Single-tier Essex 217,188 210,891 3.0 146.38 1,483.8
Woodstock Lower-tier Oxford 40,902 37,754 8.3 48.97 835.3
Total cities — — 9,900,179 9,478,924 2.39 26,045.14 813.91

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.

References

  1. ^ a b c d . Ontario Municipal Affairs and Housing. September 21, 2012. Archived from the original on February 28, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "subdivisions (municipalities) and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data". Statistics Canada.
  3. ^ "Richmond Hill Becomes a City". RichmondHill.ca. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Markham to change from town to city". CBC News. May 30, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d "Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter M.45". Service Ontario. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  6. ^ "Municipal Act, S.O. 2001, Chapter 25". Service Ontario. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  7. ^ "The Municipal Councillor's Guide". Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Ontario)". Statistics Canada. May 28, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  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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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 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 2 731 571 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 Contents 1 History 2 Cities in Ontario 3 See also 4 Notes and references 4 1 Notes 4 2 ReferencesHistory EditUnder 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 existed and formed part of a county a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes became a lower tier municipality yet retained its name as a city and existed and did not form part of a county a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes became a single tier municipality yet retained its name as a city 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 Cities in Ontario Edit Toronto is Ontario s capital and Canada s largest city Ottawa is Canada s capital and Ontario s second largest city Downtown Brampton Skyline of downtown Hamilton Skyline of downtown London Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts in Richmond Hill Ontario s newest city Vaughan as viewed from Canada s Wonderland Downtown Kitchener Downtown Windsor Downtown MississaugaName 1 8 Municipalstatus 1 Census division 1 9 Population 2016 2 Population 2011 8 Change 8 Area km 8 Populationdensity 8 Barrie note 1 Single tier Simcoe 141 434 136 063 3 9 99 04 1 428 0Belleville Single tier Hastings 50 716 49 454 2 6 247 25 205 1Brampton Lower tier Peel 593 638 523 911 13 3 266 36 2 228 7Brant Single tier Brant 36 707 35 638 3 0 843 25 43 5Brantford note 2 Single tier Brant 97 496 93 650 4 1 72 44 1 345 9Brockville Single tier Leeds and Grenville 21 346 21 870 2 4 20 85 1 023 6Burlington Lower tier Halton 183 314 175 779 4 3 185 66 987 3Cambridge note 3 Lower tier Waterloo 129 920 126 748 2 5 113 01 1 149 6Clarence Rockland Lower tier Prescott and Russell 24 512 23 185 5 7 297 71 82 3Cornwall Single tier Stormont Dundas and Glengarry 46 589 46 340 0 5 61 56 756 8Dryden note 4 Single tier Kenora 7 749 7 617 1 7 66 19 117 1Elliot Lake Single tier Algoma 10 741 11 348 5 3 714 65 15 0Greater Sudbury note 5 Single tier Sudbury 161 531 160 274 0 8 3 228 35 50 0Guelph Single tier Wellington 131 794 121 688 8 3 87 22 1 511 1Haldimand County Single tier Haldimand 45 608 44 876 1 6 1 251 54 36 4Hamilton note 6 Single tier Hamilton 536 917 519 949 3 3 1 117 29 480 6Kawartha Lakes Single tier Kawartha Lakes 75 423 73 214 3 0 3 084 38 24 5Kenora Single tier Kenora 15 096 15 348 1 6 211 59 71 3Kingston Single tier Frontenac 123 798 123 363 0 4 451 19 274 4Kitchener note 7 Lower tier Waterloo 233 222 219 153 6 4 136 77 1 705 2London note 8 Single tier Middlesex 383 822 366 151 4 8 420 35 913 1Markham Lower tier York 328 966 301 709 9 0 212 35 1 549 2Mississauga note 9 Lower tier Peel 721 599 713 443 1 1 292 43 2 467 6Niagara Falls note 10 Lower tier Niagara 88 071 82 997 6 1 209 73 419 9Norfolk County Single tier Norfolk 64 044 63 175 1 4 1 607 55 39 8North Bay Single tier Nipissing 51 553 53 651 3 9 319 11 161 6Orillia Single tier Simcoe 31 166 30 586 1 9 28 58 1 090 3Oshawa note 11 Lower tier Durham 159 458 149 607 6 6 145 64 1 094 9Ottawa note 12 Single tier Ottawa 934 243 883 391 5 8 2 790 30 334 8Owen Sound Lower tier Grey 21 341 21 688 1 6 24 27 879 2Pembroke note 13 Single tier Renfrew 13 882 14 360 3 3 14 56 953 3Peterborough note 14 Single tier Peterborough 81 032 78 698 2 9 64 25 1 261 2Pickering Lower tier Durham 91 771 88 721 3 4 231 55 396 3Port Colborne Lower tier Niagara 18 306 18 424 0 6 121 96 150 1Prince Edward County Single tier Prince Edward 24 735 25 258 2 1 1 050 49 23 5Quinte West Single tier Hastings 43 577 43 086 1 1 494 02 88 2Richmond Hill note 15 Lower tier York 195 022 185 541 5 1 101 11 1 928 8Sarnia Lower tier Lambton 71 594 72 366 1 1 164 85 434 3Sault Ste Marie Single tier Algoma 73 368 75 141 2 4 223 24 328 6St Catharines note 16 Lower tier Niagara 133 113 131 400 1 3 96 13 1 384 8St Thomas Single tier Elgin 38 909 37 905 2 6 35 63 1 092 1Stratford Single tier Perth 31 465 30 886 1 8 28 28 1 112 5Temiskaming Shores Single tier Timiskaming 9 920 10 400 4 6 178 11 55 7Thorold Lower tier Niagara 18 801 17 931 4 9 82 99 226 5Thunder Bay note 17 Single tier Thunder Bay 107 909 108 359 0 4 328 36 328 6Timmins Single tier Cochrane 41 788 43 165 3 2 2 978 83 14 0Toronto note 18 Single tier Toronto 2 731 571 2 615 060 4 5 630 20 4 334 4Vaughan Lower tier York 306 233 288 301 6 2 273 56 1 119 4Waterloo note 19 Lower tier Waterloo 104 986 98 780 6 3 64 02 1 639 8Welland Lower tier Niagara 52 293 50 631 3 3 81 04 645 3Windsor note 20 Single tier Essex 217 188 210 891 3 0 146 38 1 483 8Woodstock Lower tier Oxford 40 902 37 754 8 3 48 97 835 3Total cities 9 900 179 9 478 924 2 39 26 045 14 813 91See also EditList of communities in Ontario List of municipalities in Ontario List of towns in Ontario List of township municipalities in Ontario List of villages in OntarioNotes and references EditNotes Edit The Barrie census metropolitan area CMA is formed around the City of Barrie The Brantford CMA includes the City of Brantford as well as the County of Brant which is a single tier city The City of Cambridge as well as the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo form parts of the Kitchener Cambridge Waterloo CMA Dryden is Ontario s smallest city by population Greater Sudbury is Ontario s largest city by area The Greater Sudbury CMA is formed around the City of Greater Sudbury Hamilton is Canada s tenth largest city The Hamilton CMA includes the cities of Burlington and Hamilton The City of Kitchener as well as the cities of Cambridge and Waterloo form parts of the Kitchener Cambridge Waterloo CMA The London CMA includes the cities of London and St Thomas Mississauga is Ontario s largest lower tier city 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 The Oshawa CMA is formed around the City of Oshawa 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 Pembroke is Ontario s smallest city by area The Peterborough CMA is formed around the City of Peterborough Richmond Hill is Ontario s newest city adopting the name on March 26 2019 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 The Thunder Bay CMA is formed around the City of Thunder Bay 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 The City of Waterloo as well as the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener form parts of the Kitchener Cambridge Waterloo CMA The Windsor CMA is formed around the City of Windsor References Edit a b c d List of Ontario Municipalities Ontario Municipal Affairs and Housing September 21 2012 Archived from the original on February 28 2013 Retrieved January 3 2013 a b c subdivisions municipalities and designated places 2016 and 2011 censuses 100 data Statistics Canada Richmond Hill Becomes a City RichmondHill ca Retrieved 27 March 2019 Markham to change from town to city CBC News May 30 2012 Retrieved January 3 2014 a b c d Municipal Act R S O 1990 Chapter M 45 Service Ontario Retrieved June 29 2013 Municipal Act S O 2001 Chapter 25 Service Ontario Retrieved June 29 2013 The Municipal Councillor s Guide Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Retrieved June 29 2013 a b c d e Population and dwelling counts for Canada provinces and territories and census subdivisions municipalities 2011 and 2006 censuses Ontario Statistics Canada May 28 2012 Retrieved January 3 2013 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 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of cities in Ontario amp oldid 1112500590, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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