List of Ontario census divisions by population

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This is a list of the census divisions in Ontario in order of population based on the 2006 Community Profiles released by Statistics Canada ^[1]. See also list of Ontario census divisions.

Rank	Name	Population	% of Provincial population	2001 to 2006 Population Change (%)	Population density (pop/km²)
1	City of Toronto	2,503,281	20.58%	0.9%	3972.4
2	Peel Regional Municipality	1,159,405	9.53%	17.2%	933.2
3	York Regional Municipality	892,712	7.34%	22.4%	506.7
4	City of Ottawa	812,129	6.68%	4.9%	292.3
5	Durham Regional Municipality	561,258	4.62%	10.7%	200.9
6	City of Hamilton	504,559	4.15%	2.91%^†	438.9
7	Waterloo Regional Municipality	478,121	3.93%	9.0%	349.3
8	Halton Regional Municipality	439,256	3.61%	17.1%	454.2
9	Niagara Regional Municipality	427,421	3.51%	4.1%	230.5
10	Middlesex County	422,333	3.47%	4.7%	127.3
11	Simcoe County	422,204	3.47%	12.0%	87.2
12	Essex County	393,402	3.24%	4.9%	212.5
13	Wellington County	200,425	1.65%	7.0%	75.4
14	City of Greater Sudbury	157,909	1.3%	1.7%	49.2
15	Thunder Bay District	149,063	1.23%	-1.2%	1.4
16	Frontenac County	143,865	1.18%	3.8%	39.2
17	Peterborough County	133,080	1.09%	5.7%	33.1
18	Hastings County	130,474	1.07%	3.6%	21.1
19	Lambton County	128,204	1.05%	1.0%	42.7
20	Brant County	125,099	1.03%	5.6%	108.4
21	Algoma District	117,461	0.97%	-0.9%	2.4
22	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties	110,399	0.91%	0.8%	33.4
23	Municipality of Chatham-Kent	108,589	0.89%	0.8%	44.0
24	Oxford County	102,756	0.85%	3.5%	50.4
25	Leeds and Grenville United Counties	99,206	0.82%	2.7%	29.6
26	Renfrew County	97,545	0.80%	2.5%	13.2
27	Grey County	92,411	0.76%	3.7%	20.5
28	Elgin County	85,351	0.70%	4.7%	45.4
29	Nipissing District	84,688	0.70%	2.1%	5.0
30	Cochrane District	82,503	0.68%	-3.2%	0.6
31	Northumberland County	80,963	0.67%	4.5%	42.5
32	Prescott and Russell United Counties	80,184	0.66%	4.9%	40.1
33	City of Kawartha Lakes	74,561	0.61%	7.8%	24.4
34	Perth County	74,344	0.61%	0.9%	33.5
35	Bruce County	65,349	0.54%	2.3%	16.0
36	Lanark County	64,419	0.52%	2.1%	21.4
37	Norfolk County	62,563	0.51%	2.8%	37.9
38	Kenora District	61,802	0.51%	4.2%	0.2
39	Huron County	59,325	0.49%	-0.6%	17.5
40	Muskoka District Municipality	57,563	0.47%	8.4%	14.8
41	Dufferin County	54,436	0.45%	6.7%	36.6
42	Haldimand County	45,212	0.37%	3.4%	36.1
43	Parry Sound District	40,918	0.34%	3.2%	4.4
44	Lennox and Addington County	40,542	0.33%	2.7%	14.6
45	Timiskaming District	33,283	0.27%	-3.4%	2.5
46	Prince Edward County	25,496	0.21%	2.4%	24.3
47	Rainy River District	21,564	0.18%	-2.5%	1.4
48	Sudbury District	21,392	0.18%	-6.6%	0.6
49	Haliburton County	16,147	0.13%	7.0%	4.0
50	Manitoulin District	13,090	0.11%	3.2%	2.8