Manufacturing Firms in Rural and Small Town Canada

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By Neil Rothwell and Ray D. Bollman, Statistics Canada

Highlights

• Within rural and small town areas, 5% of the firms are manufacturing firms, slightly lower than the 6% share of firms that are manufacturing firms in larger urban centres.
• Two-thirds of the rural and small town manufacturing firms are part of the value chain of a resource sector. This is compared to larger urban centres where one-half of the manufacturing firms are part of the value chain of a resource sector.
• Between 2003 and 2007, the number of manufacturing firms in Canada declined by 6%. The decline in rural and small town areas (-7%) was slightly more than the decline in larger urban centres (-6%).
• The further the community was from a larger urban centre, the larger was the rate of decline of the number of manufacturing firms.
• In rural and small town areas, the number of manufacturing firms declined more rapidly in resource-reliant communities than in non-resource-reliant communities.