Definition of Urban

    Includes Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA), Census Agglomerations (CA) and other communities 5,000 and over.

    CMA - St. John's        174,051

    A CMA is defined as the main labour market area of an urban area (the urbanized core) of at least 100,000 population, based on the previous census. CMAs are comprised of one or more census subdivisions (CSDs) which meet at least one of the following criteria:

    1.    the CSD falls completely or partly inside the urbanized core;

    2.    at least 50% of the employed labour force living in the CSD works in the urbanized core; or

    3.    at least 25% of the employed labour force working in the CSD lives in the urbanized core.

                CA -    Corner Brook                    27,945
                CA -    Gander                              12,021
                CA -    Grand Falls-Windsor        20,378
                CA -    Labrador City                   10,473

    A CA is defined as the main labour market area of an urban area (the urbanized core) of at least 10,000 population, based on the previous census. CAs are comprised of one or more census subdivisions (CSDs) which meet at least one of the following criteria:

    1.    the CSD falls completely or partly inside the urbanized core;

    2.    at least 50% of the employed labour force living in the CSD works in the urbanized core; or

    3.    at least 25% of the employed labour force working in the CSD lives in the urbanized core.