All of Canada’s urban centres showed positive population growth from 2016 to 2021. For the first time in six censuses, no urban centres in Canada saw a population decline. (Additional notes below)
Canada (overall national average) » 5.2%
All metropolitan areas » 6.1%
- Kelowna » 14.0%
- Chilliwack » 12.1%
- Kamloops » 10.0%
- London » 10.0%
- Nanaimo » 10.0%
- Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo » 9.9%
- Oshawa » 9.3%
- Halifax » 9.1%
- Guelph » 9.0%
- Moncton » 8.9%
- Ottawa–Gatineau » 8.5%
- Abbotsford–Mission » 8.4%
- Barrie » 8.0%
- Victoria » 8.0%
- Saskatoon » 7.6%
- Belleville–Quinte West » 7.5%
- Brantford » 7.4%
- Edmonton » 7.3%
- Vancouver » 7.3%
- Sherbrooke » 7.2%
- Kingston » 7.1%
- St. Catharines–Niagara » 6.8%
- Winnipeg » 6.6%
- Calgary » 6.4%
- Windsor » 6.0%
- Fredericton » 5.8%
- Peterborough » 5.7%
- Lethbridge » 5.5%
- Regina » 5.3%
- Hamilton » 5.0%
- Drummondville » 4.6%
- Montréal » 4.6%
- Toronto » 4.6%
- Québec » 4.1%
- Saint John » 3.5%
- Trois-Rivières » 3.5%
- Greater Sudbury » 2.8%
- St. John’s » 2.0%
- Thunder Bay » 1.3%
- Red Deer » 0.4%
- Saguenay » 0.01%
Note » Each of the 41 urban centres listed above has a population of at least 100,000 people.