A village is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. A village can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.
Ontario has 11 villages [1] that had a cumulative population of 13,695 and an average population of 1,245 in the 2016 Census. [2] Ontario's largest and smallest villages are Casselman and Thornloe with populations of 3,548 and 112 respectively. [2]
Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a village was both an urban and a local municipality. [3] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 500 or more could have been incorporated as a village by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality. [3]
In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, the above designations and requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every village that: [4]
The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "villages", or other former municipal status types such as " cities", " towns" or " townships", or generically as "municipalities". [5]
Village [6] [2] | Municipal status [1] |
Geographic area [1] | Population (2021) |
Population (2016) [6] |
Population (2011) [6] |
Change % 2016-21 [2] | Area (km²) [2] |
Population density [2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burk's Falls | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 957 | 981 | 967 | −2.4 | 3.07 | 310.0 |
Casselman | Lower-tier | Prescott and Russell | 3,960 | 3,548 | 3,626 | 11.6 | 5.12 | 771.9 |
Hilton Beach | Single-tier | Algoma | 198 | 171 | 145 | 15.8 | 2.62 | 78.6 |
Merrickville-Wolford | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 3,135 | 3,067 | 2,850 | 2.2 | 214.33 | 14.6 |
Newbury | Lower-tier | Middlesex | 440 | 466 | 447 | −5.6 | 1.77 | 248.6 |
Oil Springs | Lower-tier | Lambton | 647 | 648 | 704 | −0.2 | 8.14 | 79.5 |
Point Edward | Lower-tier | Lambton | 1,930 | 2,037 | 2,034 | −5.3 | 3.3 | 585.0 |
South River | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 1,101 | 1,114 | 1,049 | −1.2 | 4.11 | 268.0 |
Sundridge | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 938 | 961 | 985 | −2.4 | 2.25 | 417.7 |
Thornloe | Single-tier | Timiskaming | 92 | 112 | 123 | −17.9 | 6.59 | 14.0 |
Westport | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 634 | 590 | 628 | 7.5 | 2.19 | 289.0 |
Total | 14,032 | 13,695 | 13,558 | 2.5 | 253.49 | 55.36 | ||
Total lower-tier | 10,746 | 10,356 | 10,289 | 3.8 | 234.85 | 45.76 | ||
Total single-tier | 3,286 | 3,339 | 3,269 | −1.6 | 18.64 | 176.29 |
A village is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. A village can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.
Ontario has 11 villages [1] that had a cumulative population of 13,695 and an average population of 1,245 in the 2016 Census. [2] Ontario's largest and smallest villages are Casselman and Thornloe with populations of 3,548 and 112 respectively. [2]
Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a village was both an urban and a local municipality. [3] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 500 or more could have been incorporated as a village by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality. [3]
In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, the above designations and requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every village that: [4]
The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "villages", or other former municipal status types such as " cities", " towns" or " townships", or generically as "municipalities". [5]
Village [6] [2] | Municipal status [1] |
Geographic area [1] | Population (2021) |
Population (2016) [6] |
Population (2011) [6] |
Change % 2016-21 [2] | Area (km²) [2] |
Population density [2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burk's Falls | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 957 | 981 | 967 | −2.4 | 3.07 | 310.0 |
Casselman | Lower-tier | Prescott and Russell | 3,960 | 3,548 | 3,626 | 11.6 | 5.12 | 771.9 |
Hilton Beach | Single-tier | Algoma | 198 | 171 | 145 | 15.8 | 2.62 | 78.6 |
Merrickville-Wolford | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 3,135 | 3,067 | 2,850 | 2.2 | 214.33 | 14.6 |
Newbury | Lower-tier | Middlesex | 440 | 466 | 447 | −5.6 | 1.77 | 248.6 |
Oil Springs | Lower-tier | Lambton | 647 | 648 | 704 | −0.2 | 8.14 | 79.5 |
Point Edward | Lower-tier | Lambton | 1,930 | 2,037 | 2,034 | −5.3 | 3.3 | 585.0 |
South River | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 1,101 | 1,114 | 1,049 | −1.2 | 4.11 | 268.0 |
Sundridge | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 938 | 961 | 985 | −2.4 | 2.25 | 417.7 |
Thornloe | Single-tier | Timiskaming | 92 | 112 | 123 | −17.9 | 6.59 | 14.0 |
Westport | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 634 | 590 | 628 | 7.5 | 2.19 | 289.0 |
Total | 14,032 | 13,695 | 13,558 | 2.5 | 253.49 | 55.36 | ||
Total lower-tier | 10,746 | 10,356 | 10,289 | 3.8 | 234.85 | 45.76 | ||
Total single-tier | 3,286 | 3,339 | 3,269 | −1.6 | 18.64 | 176.29 |