Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population

This profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the 2021 Census of Population and are available according to the major releases of the 2021 Census release dates: February 9, 2022 – Population and dwelling counts; April 27, 2022 – Age, Sex at birth and gender, Type of dwelling; July 13, 2022 – Families, households and marital status, Canadian military experience, Income; August 17, 2022 – Language; September 21, 2022 – Indigenous peoples, Housing; October 26, 2022 – Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship, Ethnocultural and religious diversity, Mobility and migration; November 30, 2022 – Education, Labour, Language of work, Commuting, Instruction in the official minority language.

Geography:

•Canada, Provinces and Territories

•Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations

•Census Metropolitan Areas, Census Agglomerations and Census Subdivisions

•Census Divisions

•Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions

•Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas

•Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts

•Canada, Provinces, Territories and Economic Regions

•Population Centres

•Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order)

•Designated Places

•Aggregate Dissemination Areas

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Last Updated	April 1, 2026, 00:08 (UTC)
Created	October 20, 2025, 03:16 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population
Description A description of the dataset.	This profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the 2021 Census of Population and are available according to the major releases of the 2021 Census release dates: February 9, 2022 – Population and dwelling counts; April 27, 2022 – Age, Sex at birth and gender, Type of dwelling; July 13, 2022 – Families, households and marital status, Canadian military experience, Income; August 17, 2022 – Language; September 21, 2022 – Indigenous peoples, Housing; October 26, 2022 – Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship, Ethnocultural and religious diversity, Mobility and migration; November 30, 2022 – Education, Labour, Language of work, Commuting, Instruction in the official minority language. Geography: •Canada, Provinces and Territories •Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations •Census Metropolitan Areas, Census Agglomerations and Census Subdivisions •Census Divisions •Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions •Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas •Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts •Canada, Provinces, Territories and Economic Regions •Population Centres •Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order) •Designated Places •Aggregate Dissemination Areas
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Personscensus of populationHousing Potential
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2022-02-09
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	Open Government Licence - Canada
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/750e6035-adf8-4426-966f-4c25b12a999e
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Statistics Canada \| Statistique Canada
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.	N/A
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.	N/A
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?	N/A
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?	N/A
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?	N/A
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset
Source Source of the dataset.
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population

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