List of designated places in Ontario

A designated place is a type of geographic unit used by Statistics Canada to disseminate census data.

[1] It is usually "a small community that does not meet the criteria used to define incorporated municipalities or Statistics Canada population centres (areas with a population of at least 1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre).

"[2] Provincial and territorial authorities collaborate with Statistics Canada in the creation of designated places so that data can be published for sub-areas within municipalities.

[2] Starting in 2016, Statistics Canada allowed the overlapping of designated places with population centres.

[4] Designated place types in Ontario include 45 dissolved municipalities, 44 local service boards, 37 municipal defined places, and 9 dissolved population centres.

Railway bridge connecting Kitchener to Breslau , Ontario's most populous designated place