What percentage of Canadians live in cities and towns?
The percentage of population living in the urban areas or in the cities and towns in Canada is approximately 80% according to an analysis in 2006. The percentage of population staying in urban regions has steadily increased since Confederation.
Over 25 million Canadians stayed in urban areas in 2006. This is absolutely contrary to the trend about a century back. Previously Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, the three large cities in Canada only made up 34.4% of Canada’s total population.
The 2006 analysis showed that the distribution of the urban rural population was not even throughout the territories and provinces. Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec had urban proportions of population which was higher in comparison to the national level. Certain provinces and territories like Manitoba and Nunavut consisted of rural population greatly higher compared to the national level. The percentage of rural population in Manitoba was 29% while in Nunavut it was 57%.
People in Canada prefer living near the cities and towns close to the American border. The primary reason for this is trade between the two nations. Secondly climatic conditions are milder in a place like Toronto in comparison to the harsh winters experienced in the interiors. Places which are covered by snow for most of the year are the areas where the population is scanty.
