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Table 3.21.1
Selected land cover and land use statistics, St. Lawrence drainage region, 2011 Table 3.21.1
Selected land cover and land use statistics, St. Lawrence drainage region, 2011

Table 3.21.1
Selected land cover and land use statistics, St. Lawrence drainage region, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Selected land cover and land use statistics Total area, Water area, Land area, Built-up area, 2011, Arable land, 2011, Natural land for pasture, 2011, Natural and semi-natural area, 2011, Fertilized area, 2011, Irrigated area, 2011 and Barrier density, 2011, calculated using km², percentage and m/km² units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	km²			percentage				km²		m/km²
	Total area^{Table 3.21.1 Note 1}	Water area^{Table 3.21.1 Note 1}	Land area^{Table 3.21.1 Note 1}	Built-up area, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 2}	Arable land, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 3}	Natural land for pasture, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 3}	Natural and semi-natural area, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 4}	Fertilized area, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 3}	Irrigated area, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 3}	Barrier density, 2011^{Table 3.21.1 Note 5}
Canada	9,978,923	1,169,561	8,809,362	0.6	4.3	1.5	93.6	249,056	7,665	169.7
St. Lawrence	118,733	8,801	109,932	5.0	12.8	0.8	81.3	8,451	206	1,093.9
Note 1. Total area includes land and water using the Atlas of Canada 1:1,000,000 scale hydrography base and includes the Canadian portion of the Great Lakes. Water area is calculated from the Canada-wide 1-km² gridded Water Fraction derived from National Topographic Data Base maps. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Built-up area estimated for 2011 combines the land use classes for settlements and roads from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Land Use, 2010, supplemented with estimates of settlements and roads for northern areas in drainage regions 1, 5, 7, 8, 16, 18 and 25. Additional information is available in Appendix E. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Data for arable land, natural land for pasture, fertilized area and irrigated area are taken from the 2011 Interpolated Census of Agriculture, which aggregates data from the Census of Agriculture by soil landscape and drainage area units. Arable land is the sum of cropland, summerfallow and tame and seeded pasture. Other land on farms (e.g., land occupied by farm buildings, wetlands and woodlots) is included as built-up or natural land. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Natural and semi-natural land is the residual after subtracting built-up area, arable land and natural land for pasture from the total area. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Barriers include roads, rail lines and electrical transmission lines, but excludes other types of infrastructure such as pipelines. Barrier density refers to the density of these roads, rail line and transmission lines, measured in metres of barriers per square kilometre of land. Return to note 5 referrer Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2017, special tabulation from Fernandes, R., G. Pavlic, W. Chen and R. Fraser, 2001, 1-km Water Fraction From National Topographic Data Base Maps, Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Earth Science Sector, (accessed April 28, 2010); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 2015, Land Use, 2010, (accessed September 16, 2015); AAFC and Statistics Canada, special tabulation, Census of Agriculture, Census Geographic Component Base 2011; Natural Resources Canada, Earth Sciences Sector, Mapping Information Branch, Centre for Topographic Information, 2012, CanVec (accessed March 1, 2012).

Date modified:: 2017-03-21