Population counts, for census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, population centres and rural areas

Name: Population counts, for census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, population centres and rural areas
Creator: Government of Canada Open Data
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
Keywords: population, census, statcan, government-of-canada

Population counts for census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, population centres and rural areas. Statistics Canada table 98-10-0006-01.

Source: Government of Canada Open Data718 rowsUpdated: 9/20/2026License: OGL-Canada-2.0

populationcensusstatcangovernment-of-canada

Quality

100

Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

Schema

Column	Type	Description
ref_date	integer	Reference date — the time period the observation refers to (Statistics Canada table field REF_DATE).
geo	string	Geography the observation covers (Statistics Canada table field GEO).
dguid	string	Dissemination geography unique identifier (Statistics Canada table field DGUID).
census_metropolitan_areas_and_census_agglomerations_by_population_centres_and_rural_areas_718	string
coordinate	float	Table coordinate locating the estimate within the source table (Statistics Canada table field COORDINATE).
population_and_land_area_2_population_2021_1	integer
population_and_land_area_2_land_area_in_square_kilometres_2021_2	float

Sample rows

ref_date	geo	dguid	census_metropolitan_areas_and_census_agglomerations_by_population_centres_and_rural_areas_718	coordinate	population_and_land_area_2_population_2021_1	population_and_land_area_2_land_area_in_square_kilometres_2021_2
2021	Canada	2021A000011124	Abbotsford - Mission, British Columbia (CMA)	1.1	195726	606.72
2021	Canada	2021A000011124	Abbotsford (Large urban population centre)	1.2	132300	71.2
2021	Canada	2021A000011124	Mission (Medium population centre)	1.3	36193	27.23
2021	Canada	2021A000011124	Aldergrove East (Small population centre)	1.4	4496	2.55
2021	Canada	2021A000011124	Rural area	1.5	22737	505.74

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/population_cmas" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/population_cmas").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/population_cmas

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.