Thunder Bay, Ontario The changing landscape of Canadian metropolitan areas
Thunder Bay, Ontario

Highlights

• At the CMA level, built-up area increased from 71 km² in 1971 to 193 km² in 2011, an increase of 170%.
• At the CMA-E level, built-up area increased from 79 km² in 1971 to 307 km² in 2011, an increase of 289%.
• In 2011, the natural and semi-natural land class was divided into forest (59%), water (8%) and other (33%).
• From 1971 to 2011, 20 km² of arable land and 130 km² of natural and semi-natural land were lost to settled area.
• Of the natural and semi-natural land converted to settled area from 1971 to 2011, 62.2% was forest, 5.3% was natural land for pasture and 32.4% was classed as other.
• Population in the CMA increased by 5% from 115,564 to 121,596 between 1971 and 2011.
• The number of dwellings in the CMA increased by 69% from 33,190 to 56,071 between 1971 and 2011.

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