Chart 2.4 Built-up area by CMA

Data table for Chart 2.4
Data table for Chart 2.4
Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the data for Chart 2.4. The information is grouped by census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), 1971 built-up area, 1991 new built-up area, 2001 new built-up area and 2011 new built-up area, calculated using square kilometres units of measure (appearing as column headers).
CMA 1971 built-up area 1991 new built-up area 2001 new built-up area 2011 new built-up area
square kilometres
Newer CMAs  
Guelph 35 49 23 5
Abbotsford–Mission 18 84 29 9
Trois-Rivières 36 82 13 16
Brantford 44 66 40 5
Barrie 24 85 37 9
Peterborough 38 89 31 8
Moncton 30 99 39 14
Kelowna 12 128 25 19
Sherbrooke 44 108 18 33
Kingston 43 132 18 14
Mid-size and small CMAs  
St. John's 60 60 49 12
Saguenay 63 91 14 20
Thunder Bay 71 72 43 6
Regina 102 108 9 11
Victoria 120 64 33 16
Oshawa 77 97 47 16
Saint John 74 103 61 11
Windsor 113 101 36 8
Greater Sudbury 85 121 43 20
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 119 99 48 16
Saskatoon 103 188 13 16
Ottawa–Gatineau (Que.) 67 169 16 76
St. Catharines–Niagara 187 128 81 17
London 167 164 66 18
Hamilton 187 136 74 23
Halifax 148 166 115 39
Québec 183 180 46 67
Winnipeg 326 191 19 23
Large CMAs  
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ont.) 219 353 19 45
Calgary 273 298 62 66
Vancouver 492 309 159 35
Edmonton 342 549 146 56
Montréal 755 542 113 161
Toronto 995 719 369 102
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 were taken from 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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