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What makes a population center in Canada?
What makes a population center in Canada?

Use PiinPoint to find out where there is a minimum population count

Cameron Klapwyk avatar
Written by Cameron Klapwyk
Updated over a week ago

Canadian population centers are municipalities that have at least 1,000 persons living in them, and at least 400 people per square kilometre. You can learn more about population centers from Statistics Canada website here.

Accessing Population Centers

  1. Open Layers

  2. Search and/or toggle on the "Population Centers" Layer

  3. Access the symbology menu to change the colouring

Touring Population Centers

For a peek at Population Centres in some of Canada's well-known cities, take a look below:

Vancouver

Edmonton

Montreal

Ottawa

Greater Toronto Area

Don't see Population Centres in your account? Contact your Customer Success Manager for more information or reach out to us via support@piinpoint.com.

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