Some Census highlights

The City of Montreal’s population (which includes the West Island boroughs) increased 2.3 per cent since 2001, to 1.62 million people. The Greater Montreal population, including the South Shore, Laval and the off-island area, jumped 5.3 per cent, to 3.64 million people, while the island of Montreal (which includes de-merged cities) is up 2.3 per cent and stands at 1.85 million people.

Quebec’s population is now 7.55 million people, a 4.3 per cent increase.

Canada’s population stands at 31.6 million residents, up 5.4 per cent from 2001, when the population was 30 million.



Other highlights from the census



- The Greater Montreal area accounts for nearly half of all the people in Quebec, and is the second-largest in the country, behind Toronto.

- Montreal is one of six metropolitan communities in the country with populations over 1 million. Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Vancouver, and for the first time, Calgary and Edmonton.

- The vast majority of Canada's population growth in the last half-decade came in those six metro areas.

- Quebec's population grew three times faster (4.3 per cent?) in the last five years than it did in the decade previous. Its population growth was the second-highest since the baby-boom era in the mid-1960s.

- Canada had the highest population growth (5.4 per cent) of any G8 country in the last five years. The United States was second with five per cent growth.