Avillage is a sub-type ofmunicipalities in theCanadian province ofOntario. A village can have the municipal status of either asingle-tier orlower-tier municipality.
Ontario has 11 villages[1] that had a cumulative population of 13,695 and an average population of 1,245 in the2016 Census.[2] Ontario's largest and smallest villages areCasselman andThornloe with populations of 3,548 and 112 respectively.[2]
Under the formerMunicipal Act, 1990, a village was both an urban and a local municipality.[3] Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 500 or more could have been incorporated as a village by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality.[3]
In the transition to theMunicipal Act, 2001, the above designations and requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every village that:[4]
The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "villages", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "towns" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".[5]
| Village[6][2] | Municipal status[1] | Geographic area[1] | Population (2021) | Population (2016)[6] | Population (2011)[6] | Change % 2016-21[2] | Area (km²)[2] | Population density[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burk's Falls | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 957 | 981 | 967 | −2.4 | 3.07 | 310.0 |
| Casselman | Lower-tier | Prescott and Russell | 3,960 | 3,548 | 3,626 | 11.6 | 5.12 | 771.9 |
| Hilton Beach | Single-tier | Algoma | 198 | 171 | 145 | 15.8 | 2.62 | 78.6 |
| Merrickville-Wolford | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 3,135 | 3,067 | 2,850 | 2.2 | 214.33 | 14.6 |
| Newbury | Lower-tier | Middlesex | 440 | 466 | 447 | −5.6 | 1.77 | 248.6 |
| Oil Springs | Lower-tier | Lambton | 647 | 648 | 704 | −0.2 | 8.14 | 79.5 |
| Point Edward | Lower-tier | Lambton | 1,930 | 2,037 | 2,034 | −5.3 | 3.3 | 585.0 |
| South River | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 1,101 | 1,114 | 1,049 | −1.2 | 4.11 | 268.0 |
| Sundridge | Single-tier | Parry Sound | 938 | 961 | 985 | −2.4 | 2.25 | 417.7 |
| Thornloe | Single-tier | Timiskaming | 92 | 112 | 123 | −17.9 | 6.59 | 14.0 |
| Westport | Lower-tier | Leeds and Grenville | 634 | 590 | 628 | 7.5 | 2.19 | 289.0 |
| Total | 14,032 | 13,695 | 13,558 | 2.5 | 253.49 | 55.36 | ||
| Total lower-tier | 10,746 | 10,356 | 10,289 | 3.8 | 234.85 | 45.76 | ||
| Total single-tier | 3,286 | 3,339 | 3,269 | −1.6 | 18.64 | 176.29 | ||
