Table 2.2
Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011

Table 2.2
Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011. Total built-up area, Built-up area growth, 1971, 1991, 2001, 2011 and 1971 to 2011, calculated using square kilometres and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Total built-up area Built-up area growth
1971 1991 2001 2011 1971 to 2011
square kilometres square kilometres percent
Total CMA 5,651 11,580 13,532 14,546 8,895 157
Large  
Toronto 995 1,714 2,082 2,184 1,189 120
Montréal 755 1,297 1,410 1,571 816 108
Edmonton 342 891 1,037 1,094 752 220
Vancouver 492 801 960 995 503 102
Calgary 273 571 634 700 427 156
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ont.) 219 572 591 635 417 191
Mid-size and small  
Winnipeg 326 517 535 559 233 71
Québec 183 363 408 475 292 160
Halifax 148 313 428 467 319 217
Hamilton 187 323 397 420 233 124
London 167 331 397 415 247 148
St. Catharines–Niagara 187 314 395 412 225 121
Ottawa–Gatineau (Que.) 67 235 252 328 261 391
Saskatoon 103 291 304 319 217 211
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 119 217 265 281 163 137
Greater Sudbury 85 206 249 269 184 215
Windsor 113 214 250 258 145 128
Saint John 74 178 239 250 175 235
Oshawa 77 173 220 236 159 207
Victoria 120 184 217 233 113 95
Regina 102 210 219 230 128 125
Thunder Bay 71 144 186 193 122 170
Saguenay 63 154 168 188 126 201
St. John's 60 120 169 181 121 201
Newer CMAs  
Kingston 43 176 194 208 165 382
Sherbrooke 44 152 170 203 160 364
Kelowna 12 140 165 185 172 1,402
Moncton 30 129 168 182 152 504
Peterborough 38 127 158 166 128 336
Barrie 24 109 146 155 132 556
Brantford 44 110 150 155 111 250
Trois-Rivières 36 118 131 147 111 310
Abbotsford–Mission 18 102 131 139 121 669
Guelph 35 84 107 112 77 220
Notes: Built-up area data were taken from multiple sources. The 1971 built-up areas were based on Canada Land Inventory Land Use and Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) with modeling of roads. CLUMP data excluded the CMAs of Moncton, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Peterborough, Kingston, Barrie, Brantford, Kelowna and Abbotsford–Mission. As a result, 1971 built-up areas may be underestimated for these CMAs. Built-up area estimates for other years are based on Land Use, 1990, 2000 and 2010. 2011 CMA boundaries were used for all years. CMAs were categorized as large, mid-size or small based on the 2011 built-up area, using geometric intervals. Newer CMAs—those not populated enough to qualify as CMAs in 1971 and for which, with the exception of Guelph, CLUMP data were unavailable—were then grouped separately.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2016, special tabulation of data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), 1999, Canada Land Inventory: CLI Land Use (circa 1966), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/cli_250k/landuse/ (accessed September 15, 2015); NRCan, CCRS, 1999, Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP): CLUMP Land Use (1971), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/clump/clump_1971/ (accessed September 15, 2015); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18e3ef1a-497c-40c6-8326-aac1a34a0dec (accessed September 16, 2015).


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