Canadian Census Maps

Explore the 2016 and 2021 Canadian Census of Population on a map.

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Breakdown of Indigenous identity by First Nations, Métis, Inuit, or non-Indigenous.

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“Indigenous identity” reflects self-reporting and is not the same as Registered Indian status. Counts in some communities are affected by incomplete enumeration. Read more

Percentages are computed only over the population in private households, which excludes residents of collective dwellings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, prisons, and university residences. A dissemination area dominated by such a facility can have a much smaller percentage denominator than its overall population suggests.

These estimates come from the long-form questionnaire, which was distributed to a 25% sample of private households. They are subject to sampling variability and may differ from a full enumeration. Read more

To protect confidentiality, Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts up or down to a multiple of 5 or 10. Totals are rounded independently of their parts, so sub-totals may not match the total and percentages may not add up to 100%. Read more