This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed.

The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. The majority of Franco-Ontarians in Ontario live in eastern and northeastern Ontario. While most communities in these areas have sizeable French minorities, several municipalities have francophone majorities.

Most such places are designated as French language service areas under the provincial French Language Services Act, meaning that Government of Ontario services must be available in French.

Municipality Type County, district, or regional municipality Total pop. %Francophone# of Francophones Alfred and Plantagenet Township Prescott and Russell 9,949 71%7064 Armstrong Township Timiskaming 1,199 52%623 Beckwith Township Lanark 9,021 5%451 Black River-Matheson Township Cochrane 2,572 23%592 Blind River Town Algoma 3,422 14%479 Bonfield Township Nipissing 2,146 20%429 Callander Municipality Parry Sound 3,964 9%357 Carleton Place Town Lanark 12,517 5%626 Casselman Village Prescott and Russell 3,960 71%2812 Central Manitoulin Municipality Manitoulin 2,235 4%89 Champlain Township Prescott and Russell 8,665 59%5112 Clarence-Rockland City Prescott and Russell 26,505 57%15108 Chapleau Township Sudbury 1,942 33%641 Chisholm Township Nipissing 1,312 10%131 Cochrane Town Cochrane 5,390 33%1779 Cornwall City Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 47,845 19%9091 Deep River Town Renfrew 4,175 5%209 East Ferris Municipality Nipissing 4,946 19%940 East Hawkesbury Township Prescott and Russell 3,418 58%1982 Elliot Lake City Algoma 11,372 12%1365 Englehart Town Timiskaming 1,442 7%101 Espanola Town Sudbury 5,185 12%622 French River Municipality Sudbury 2,828 39%1103 Greater Sudbury City Single-tier municipality 166,004 23%38181 Greenstone Municipality Thunder Bay 4,309 21%905 Hawkesbury Town Prescott and Russell 10,194 72%7340 Hearst Town Cochrane 4,794 84%4027Francophone majority Summation107,03163%67,238 Huron Shores Municipality Algoma 1,860 5%93 Ignace Township Kenora 1,206 7%84 Iroquois Falls Town Cochrane 4,418 33%1458 Kapuskasing Town Cochrane 8,057 63%5076 Kirkland Lake Town Timiskaming 7,750 12%930 Lakeshore Town Essex 40,410 5%2021 Laurentian Hills Town Renfrew 2,885 6%173 Laurentian Valley Township Renfrew 9,450 5%473 Manitouwadge Township Thunder Bay 1,974 12%237 Marathon Town Thunder Bay 3,138 9%282 Markstay-Warren Municipality Sudbury 2,708 30%812 Mattawa Town Nipissing 1,881 25%470 Merrickville–Wolford Village Leeds and Grenville 3,135 6%188 Moonbeam Township Cochrane 1,157 71%821 Nipissing Indian reserve Nipissing 1,640 14%230 North Bay City Nipissing 52,662 11%5793 North Dundas Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 11,304 8%904 North Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 10,144 35%3550 North Grenville Municipality Leeds and Grenville 17,964 6%1078 North Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 7,400 26%1924 Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands Town Manitoulin 2,641 5%132 Ottawa City Single-tier municipality 1,017,449 13%132268 Pembroke City Single-tier municipality 14,364 6%862 Penetanguishene Town Simcoe 10,077 8%806 Petawawa Town Renfrew 18,160 10%1816 Russell Township Prescott and Russell 19,598 38%7447 Sables-Spanish Rivers Township Sudbury 3,237 9%291 St. Charles Municipality Sudbury 1,357 41%556 Smooth Rock Falls Town Cochrane 1,200 58%696 South Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,330 25%3333 South Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,570 14%1900 Temiskaming Shores City Timiskaming 9,634 28%2698 Terrace Bay Township Thunder Bay 1,528 4%61 The Nation Municipality Prescott and Russell 13,350 63%8411 Timmins City Cochrane 41,145 33%13578 Tiny Township Simcoe 12,966 7%908 Wawa Municipality Algoma 2,705 17%460 Welland City Niagara 55,750 7%3903 West Nipissing Municipality Nipissing 14,583 56%8166

A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. These include the francophone-majority municipalities of Dubreuilville (79%), Fauquier-Strickland (68%), Mattice-Val Côté (82%), Opasatika (63%), and Val Rita-Harty (71%).

Small francophone-minority municipalities include Baldwin (11%), Billings (10%), Brethour (10%), Calvin (10%), Casey (42%), Chamberlain (6%), Chapleau Cree Fox Lake (8%), Charlton and Dack (5%), Cobalt (13%), Coleman (25%), Dokis (10%), Dorion (5%), Evanturel (9%), Gauthier (17%), Harley (28%), Harris (30%), Head, Clara and Maria (6%), Hornepayne (10%), Hilliard (21%), Hudson (18%), James (19%), Jocelyn (7%), Kerns (11%), Larder Lake (19%), Latchford (11%), Matachewan (17%), Matachewan (15%), Mattagami (5%), Mattawan (26%), McGarry (38%), Nairn and Hyman (9%), Temagami (13%), The North Shore (15%), Papineau-Cameron (22%), Spanish (18%), Thornloe (28%), and White River (13%).

See also Geographical distribution of French speakers List of townships in Ontario Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario

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