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Figure 2.5.4 Census metropolitan area population — Percentage adjusted commuting
This is a comparison of the population included in a census metropolitan area as a result of the commuting rules as a percentage of the census metropolitan area population. The census metropolitan area population is on the x-axis and the population added to the census metropolitan area from the commuting rules as a percentage of the census metropolitan area population is on the y-axis.
The distribution clearly shows an inverse relationship. The commuting rules account for a larger proportion of the census metropolitan area's total population in the case of smaller census metropolitan areas (ranges from more than 7% to a high of 33% with clustering between 7% and 18% for census metropolitan areas with populations smaller than 500,000). For census metropolitan areas with populations larger than 500,000, the percentage accounted for by commuting decreases from 7% to 2% as the census metropolitan areas increase in size.
Source: Statistics Canada, Defining and Measuring Metropolitan Areas: A Comparison between Canada and the United States, catalogue number 92F0138MWE2008002.
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