List of towns in Ontario

A town is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. A town can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality.

Ontario has 88 towns that had a cumulative population of 1,986,937 and an average population of 22,579 in the 2021 Census. In the 2021 Census, Ontario's largest and smallest towns are Oakville and Latchford with populations of 213,759 and 355 respectively.

History Under the former Municipal Act, 1990, a town was both an urban and a local municipality. Under this former legislation, a locality with a population of 2,000 or more could have been incorporated as a town by Ontario's Municipal Board upon review of an application from 75 or more residents of the locality. It also allowed the Municipal Board to change the status of a village or township to a town if it had a population of 2,000 upon review of an application from the village or township.

In the transition to the Municipal Act, 2001, these requirements were abandoned and, as at December 31, 2002, every town that: "existed and formed part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a lower-tier municipality yet retained its name as a town; and "existed and did not form part of a county, a regional or district municipality or the County of Oxford for municipal purposes" became a single-tier municipality yet retained its name as a town. The current legislation also provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to name themselves as "towns", or other former municipal status types such as "cities", "villages" or "townships", or generically as "municipalities".

Towns in Ontario NameMunicipalstatusGeographic areaPopulation(2021)Population(2016)Change(%)Area(km2)Populationdensity Ajax Lower-tier Durham Amherstburg Lower-tier Essex Arnprior Lower-tier Renfrew Atikokan Single-tier Rainy River Aurora Lower-tier York Aylmer Lower-tier Elgin Bancroft Lower-tier Hastings Blind River Single-tier Algoma Bracebridge Lower-tier Muskoka Bradford West Gwillimbury Lower-tier Simcoe Bruce Mines Single-tier Algoma Caledon Lower-tier Peel Carleton Place Lower-tier Lanark Cobalt Single-tier Timiskaming Cobourg Lower-tier Northumberland Cochrane Single-tier Cochrane Collingwood Lower-tier Simcoe Deep River Lower-tier Renfrew Deseronto Lower-tier Hastings East Gwillimbury Lower-tier York Englehart Single-tier Timiskaming Erin Lower-tier Wellington Espanola Single-tier Sudbury Essex Lower-tier Essex Fort Erie Lower-tier Niagara Fort Frances Single-tier Rainy River Gananoque Single-tier Leeds and Grenville Georgina Lower-tier York Goderich Lower-tier Huron Gore Bay Single-tier Manitoulin Grand Valley Lower-tier Dufferin Gravenhurst Lower-tier Muskoka Greater Napanee Lower-tier Lennox and Addington Grimsby Lower-tier Niagara Halton Hills Lower-tier Halton Hanover Lower-tier Grey Hawkesbury Lower-tier Prescott and Russell Hearst Single-tier Cochrane Huntsville Lower-tier Muskoka Ingersoll Lower-tier Oxford Innisfil Lower-tier Simcoe Iroquois Falls Single-tier Cochrane Kapuskasing Single-tier Cochrane Kearney Single-tier Parry Sound Kingsville Lower-tier Essex Kirkland Lake Single-tier Timiskaming Lakeshore Lower-tier Essex LaSalle Lower-tier Essex Latchford Single-tier Timiskaming Laurentian Hills Lower-tier Renfrew Lincoln Lower-tier Niagara Marathon Single-tier Thunder Bay Mattawa Single-tier Nipissing Midland Lower-tier Simcoe Milton Lower-tier Halton Minto Lower-tier Wellington Mississippi Mills Lower-tier Lanark Mono Lower-tier Dufferin Moosonee Single-tier Cochrane New Tecumseth Lower-tier Simcoe Newmarket Lower-tier York Niagara-on-the-Lake Lower-tier Niagara Oakville Lower-tier Halton Orangeville Lower-tier Dufferin Parry Sound Single-tier Parry Sound Pelham Lower-tier Niagara Penetanguishene Lower-tier Simcoe Perth Lower-tier Lanark Petawawa Lower-tier Renfrew Petrolia Lower-tier Lambton Plympton-Wyoming Lower-tier Lambton Prescott Single-tier Leeds and Grenville Rainy River Single-tier Rainy River Renfrew Lower-tier Renfrew Saugeen Shores Lower-tier Bruce Shelburne Lower-tier Dufferin Smiths Falls Single-tier Lanark Smooth Rock Falls Single-tier Cochrane South Bruce Peninsula Lower-tier Bruce Spanish Single-tier Algoma St. Marys Single-tier Perth Tecumseh Lower-tier Essex The Blue Mountains Lower-tier Grey Thessalon Single-tier Algoma Tillsonburg Lower-tier Oxford Wasaga Beach Lower-tier Simcoe Whitby Lower-tier Durham Whitchurch-Stouffville Lower-tier York Total towns 1,986,937 1,810,796 9.7 16,116.72 123.28 Total lower-tier towns 1,889,270 1,712,616 10.3 11,825.79 159.76 Total single-tier towns 97,667 98,180 -0.5 4,290.93 22.76

See also List of cities in Ontario List of communities in Ontario List of municipalities in Ontario List of township municipalities in Ontario List of villages in Ontario

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