Demographics of Manitoba
Manitoba's capital and largest city (containing over half its population) is Winnipeg.
Other important cities and towns include Brandon, Thompson, Dauphin, Swan River, Churchill, The Pas, Selkirk, Portage la Prairie, Gimli, Flin Flon, Steinbach, Morden, Virden, Minnedosa, Emerson, Lockport, Neepawa, and Winkler.
Over one million people live in Manitoba's southern regions, in a small string of cities and towns (Winnipeg, Brandon, etc.)
Source: Statistics Canada[1][2] More than half of Manitoba's 1,148,801 population live in the urban area surrounding the city of Winnipeg.
The urban area (UA) covers 448.92 square kilometres and had a 2006 census population of 641,483 (which was an increase of 2.3% from 2001).
11, which includes both the City of Winnipeg and the Rural Municipality of Headingley, had a 2011 population of 666,832 (an increase of 4.8%).
The Winnipeg Capital Region comprises the CMA and additional portions of Census Divisions 10, 13, and 14.
The Regional Municipality of St. Andrews (population 11,359) along with the City of Selkirk (population 9,515) are to some degree a distinct Urban Area (See 6. below) and while they are part of the Winnipeg Capital Region they are not part of the CMA.
The Town of Niverville (population 2,464) is wedged in between the Regional Municipalities of Hanover and Taché.
12 are the City of Beasejour (2,823) and the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead (3,940) both of which are not part of the CMA or the Region.
Also included in this Census Division (CD) is the Regional Municipality of Hanover (population 14,026), which surrounds the City of Steinbach on three sides, and the Regional Municipalities of Taché and Ritchot which are part of the Winnipeg CMA.
The Town of Niverville, with a population of 3,540, is wedged in between the Regional Municipalities of Hanover and Taché.
09 which had a 2011 census population of 23,489 and is part of Manitoba's Central Plains Region.
03 which had a 2011 census population of 51,350 and is part of Manitoba's Pembina Valley Region.
.Also included in this Census Division are the Regional Municipality of St. Andrews, which surrounds the City of Selkirk on three sides and which had a 2011 census population of 11,875); and the Regional Municipalities of East St. Paul, West St. Paul, and St. Clements, which are part of the Winnipeg CMA; and the Indian Reservation of Brokenhead 4; and the Village of Dunnottar.
The population of the Urban Area was 5,513 and includes part of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation 21A Indian Reserve.
3 which had a 2011 census population of 51,350 and which is part of Manitoba's Pembina Valley Region.
[7] Population of Manitoba by visible minority and indigenous identity (2021):[16] The question on knowledge of languages allows for multiple responses.
Of the 1,118,690 singular responses to the census question concerning mother tongue the languages most commonly reported were: Note: "n.i.e.
}[21] In addition to the single-language responses detailed above, about 34,935 people reported having more than one mother tongue.
}[22] The 2021 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprise 257,620 persons or 19.7 percent of the total population of Manitoba.
[30] The 2021 Canadian census counted a total of 58,370 people who immigrated to Manitoba between 2016 and 2021.
[30] Manitoba is one of the provinces most affected by Interprovincial migration, having had a negative mobility ratio for 42 out of 46 years from 1971 to 2017.
This is the second-worst record for years of negative interprovincial migration, followed only by Quebec.
