Greater Montreal
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Greater Montreal (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as Template:Convert with a population of 4,027,100,[1] almost half that of the province.
A smaller area of Template:Convert is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC; Template:Langx, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montreal mayor Valérie Plante).
The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to Downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil. Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some additional suburbs on the South Shore (Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually included in the inner ring, despite their location on the mainland.
The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Montreal. Most of these cities and towns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term off-island suburbs refers to those suburbs that are located on the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that were never included in the megacity of Longueuil, and those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula.
Largest cities
| Rank | City | Region | Population (2016) | Land Area | Population Density | ||
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| 1 | Montreal | Montreal | 1,704,694 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 2 | Laval | Laval | 422,993 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 3 | Longueuil | Montérégie | 239,700 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 4 | Terrebonne | Lanaudière | 111,575 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 5 | Brossard | Montérégie | 85,721 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 6 | Repentigny | Lanaudière | 84,285 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 7 | Saint-Jérôme | Laurentides | 74,346 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 8 | Blainville | Laurentides | 56,863 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 9 | Mirabel | Laurentides | 50,513 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
| 10 | Dollard-des-Ormeaux | Montreal | 48,899 | Template:Convert | Template:Convert | ||
Cities and towns
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Montreal
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Laval
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Longueuil
Only a portion of the municipalities and MRC's located in geographical entities highlighted in light gray are part of the CMM/CMA.
There are 82 municipalities that are part of the MMC and 91 municipalities that are part of the CMA.
There are 79 municipalities that overlap between the two, with 3 municipalities being part of the MMC but not the CMA, and 12 municipalities being part of the CMA but not the MMC.[3][4]
Kanesatake and Kahnawake are not included in the previous counts.
Demographics
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Ethnicity
| Panethnic group |
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| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
| EuropeanTemplate:Efn | 3,059,895 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,070,210 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 2,963,860 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 2,980,280 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 2,911,230 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| African | 340,140 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 270,940 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 216,310 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 169,065 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 139,305 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Middle EasternTemplate:Efn | 285,615 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 220,055 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 172,345 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 113,405 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 79,410 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Latin American | 137,850 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 110,195 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 98,010 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 75,400 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 53,155 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| South Asian | 121,260 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 85,925 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 79,540 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 70,615 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 57,935 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| East AsianTemplate:Efn | 116,820 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 100,265 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 83,420 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 79,665 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 58,165 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Southeast AsianTemplate:Efn | 101,560 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 88,755 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 89,645 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 68,475 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 57,460 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Indigenous | 46,085 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 34,745 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 26,285 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 17,865 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 11,085 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| OtherTemplate:Efn | 40,565 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 28,710 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 23,060 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 13,755 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 12,900 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Total responses | 4,206,455 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 4,009,795 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,752,470 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,588,520 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,380,645 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
| Total population | 4,291,732 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 4,098,927 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,824,221 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,635,571 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". | 3,426,350 | Script error: No such module "Percentage". |
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Language
| Language | Greater Montreal | Quebec | Canada |
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| French | 65.9% | 79.1% | 21.4% |
| English | 13.2% | 8.9% | 58.1% |
| Arabic | 4.5% | 2.1% | 1.1% |
| Spanish | 3.2% | 1.8% | 1.3% |
| Italian | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1.3% |
| Creole | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.2% |
| Mandarin | 1.0% | 0.1% | 1.8% |
| Greek | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
| Romanian | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.3% |
| Portuguese | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.7% |
| Russian | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| Vietnamese | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.5% |
| Persian (Farsi) | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| Cantonese | 0.6% | 0.1% | 1.7% |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Armenian | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| Tamil | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| Punjabi (Panjabi) | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.4% |
| Polish | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6% |
| Bengali | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| German | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.3% |
| Urdu | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| Yiddish | 0.2% | 0.1% | <0.1% |
| Cambodian (Khmer) | 0.2% | 0.1% | <0.1% |
| Turkish | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Gujarati | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| Hungarian | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Bulgarian | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Berber (Kabyle) | 0.2% | 0.1% | <0.1% |
| Unspecified Chinese | <0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Transportation
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Along with Exo, a sister agency, the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) plans, integrates, and coordinates public transport across Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles and the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. The ARTM's mandate also includes the management of reserved High-occupancy vehicle lanes, metropolitan bus terminuses, park-and-ride lots, and a budget of $163 million, which is shared amongst the transit corporations and inter-municipal public transit organizations.
The Exo/ARTM's territory spans 63 municipalities and one native reserve, 13 regional county municipalities, and 21 transit authorities. It serves a population of approximately 3.7 million people who make more than 750,000 trips daily.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The major transit commissions under the ARTM are:
- Société de transport de Montréal (Template:Langx), serving the Island of Montreal
- Société de transport de Laval (Template:Langx), serving the city of Laval
- Réseau de transport de Longueuil (Template:Langx), serving the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil
Education
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(In Montreal, except where otherwise noted.)
See also
Notes
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- Group 3
References
External links
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- Act respecting the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (provincial statute)
- Greater Montreal Area Restaurants
- Template:In lang Greater Montreal Area map in .pdf
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