Greater Montreal

Greater Montreal Grand Montréal  (French)
Metropolitan area
Montreal Metropolitan Community
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Area [1]
• Land	4,258.31 km2 (1,644.14 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	4,098,927
• Density	890.2/km2 (2,306/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal code prefixes	H, J
Area code(s)	438, 450, 514, 579
Greater Montreal shown in light blue, with the City of Montreal proper in dark blue.

Greater Montreal is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100.^[3]

A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 sq mi) is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montreal mayor Valérie Plante).

The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to Downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil.

The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Montreal. Most of these cities and towns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term off-island suburbs refers to those suburbs that are located on the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that were never included in the megacity of Longueuil, and those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula.

Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some suburbs on the South Shore (Longueuil, Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually not included in the off-island suburbs even though they are on the mainland.

Largest cities[]

The largest cities in Greater Montreal^[4]

Rank	City	Region	Population (2016)	Land Area		Population Density
				km2	mi2	/km2	/mi2
1	Montreal	Montreal	1,704,694	365.13	140.98	4,662.1	12,075
2	Laval	Laval	422,993	247.09	95.40	1,710.9	4,431
3	Longueuil	Montérégie	239,700	115.59	44.63	2,070.9	5,364
4	Terrebonne	Lanaudière	111,575	154.12	59.51	723.9	1,875
5	Brossard	Montérégie	85,721	45.20	17.45	1,895.4	4,909
6	Repentigny	Lanaudière	84,285	61.79	23.86	1,376.5	3,565
7	Saint-Jérôme	Laurentides	74,346	90.52	34.95	822.1	2,129
8	Blainville	Laurentides	56,863	55.10	21.27	1,030.9	2,670
9	Mirabel	Laurentides	50,513	485.07	187.29	104.1	270
10	Dollard-des-Ormeaux	Montreal	48,899	14.97	5.78	3,266.1	8,459

Cities and towns[]

• 

  Montreal

• 

  Laval

• 

  Longueuil

Municipalities in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC)

Area	Regional county municipality	Municipality	In CMA	In MMC
Urban agglomeration of Montreal		Baie-d'Urfé	Y	Y
		Beaconsfield	Y	Y
		Côte Saint-Luc	Y	Y
		Dollard-des-Ormeaux	Y	Y
		Dorval	Y	Y
		Hampstead	Y	Y
		Kirkland	Y	Y
		L'Île-Dorval	Y	Y
		Montreal[a 1]	Y	Y
		Montréal-Est	Y	Y
		Montreal West	Y	Y
		Mount Royal	Y	Y
		Pointe-Claire	Y	Y
		Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue	Y	Y
		Senneville	Y	Y
		Westmount	Y	Y
Laval			Y	Y
Urban agglomeration of Longueuil		Boucherville	Y	Y
		Brossard	Y	Y
		Longueuil[a 2]	Y	Y
		Saint-Lambert	Y	Y
		Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville	Y	Y
Laurentides	Deux-Montagnes[b 1]	Deux-Montagnes	Y	Y
		Oka	Y	Y
		Pointe-Calumet	Y	Y
		Saint-Eustache	Y	Y
		Saint-Joseph-du-Lac	Y	Y
		Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac	Y	Y
		Saint-Placide	Y	N
	Thérèse-De Blainville	Blainville	Y	Y
		Bois-des-Filion	Y	Y
		Boisbriand	Y	Y
		Lorraine	Y	Y
		Rosemère	Y	Y
		Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines	Y	Y
		Sainte-Thérèse	Y	Y
	[d 1]	Mirabel	Y	Y
	Argenteuil	Gore	Y	N
	La Rivière-du-Nord	Saint-Colomban	Y	N
		Saint-Jérôme[c 1]	Y	N
Lanaudière	L'Assomption[b 1]	Charlemagne	Y	Y
		L'Assomption	Y	Y
		L'Épiphanie	Y	N
		Repentigny	Y	Y
		Saint-Sulpice	Y	Y
	Les Moulins	Mascouche	Y	Y
		Terrebonne	Y	Y
	D'Autray	Lavaltrie	Y	N
	Montcalm[b 2]	Saint-Lin–Laurentides	Y	N
Montérégie	Beauharnois-Salaberry[b 1]	Beauharnois	Y	Y
	La Vallée-du-Richelieu[b 1]	Beloeil	Y	Y
		Carignan	Y	Y
		Chambly	Y	Y
		McMasterville	Y	Y
		Mont-Saint-Hilaire	Y	Y
		Otterburn Park	Y	Y
		Saint-Basile-le-Grand	Y	Y
		Saint-Jean-Baptiste	N	Y
		Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil	Y	Y
	Marguerite-D'Youville	Calixa-Lavallée	N	Y
		Contrecœur	N	Y
		Saint-Amable	Y	Y
		Sainte-Julie	Y	Y
		Varennes	Y	Y
		Verchères	Y	Y
	Roussillon	Candiac	Y	Y
		Châteauguay	Y	Y
		Delson	Y	Y
		La Prairie	Y	Y
		Léry	Y	Y
		Mercier	Y	Y
		Sainte-Catherine	Y	Y
		Saint-Constant	Y	Y
		Saint-Isidore	Y	Y
		Saint-Mathieu	Y	Y
		Saint-Philippe	Y	Y
	Rouville[b 1]	Richelieu	Y	Y
		Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu	Y	Y
	Vaudreuil-Soulanges[b 1]	Coteau-du-Lac	Y	N
		Hudson	Y	Y
		Les Cèdres	Y	Y
		Les Coteaux	Y	N
		L'Île-Cadieux	Y	Y
		L'Île-Perrot	Y	Y
		Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot	Y	Y
		Pincourt	Y	Y
		Pointe-des-Cascades	Y	Y
		Saint-Lazare	Y	Y
		Saint-Zotique	Y	N
		Terrasse-Vaudreuil	Y	Y
		Vaudreuil-Dorion	Y	Y
		Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac	Y	Y
	Le Haut-Richelieu[b 2]	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu	Y	N

There are 82 municipalities that are part of the MMC and 91 municipalities that are part of the CMA. A total of 79 municipalities overlap between the two, with 3 municipalities being part of the MMC but not the CMA, and 12 municipalities being part of the CMA but not the MMC. Kanesatake and Kahnawake are not included in the previous counts.

Demographics[]

Historical populations

Year	Pop.	±%
1871	174,090	—
1881	223,512	+28.4%
1891	308,169	+37.9%
1901	393,665	+27.7%
1911	594,812	+51.1%
1921	774,330	+30.2%
1931	1,064,448	+37.5%
1941	1,192,235	+12.0%
1951	1,539,308	+29.1%
1956	1,745,001	+13.4%
1961	2,110,679	+21.0%
1966	2,570,985	+21.8%
1971	2,743,208	+6.7%
1976	2,802,485	+2.2%
1981	2,862,286	+2.1%
1986	2,921,357	+2.1%
1991	3,208,970	+9.8%
1996	3,326,510	+3.7%
2001	3,426,350	+3.0%
2006	3,635,571	+6.1%
2011	3,824,221	+5.2%
2016	4,098,927	+7.2%
[5]

Mother tongue (2011)^[6]

Language	Greater Montreal	Quebec	Canada
French	65.9%	79.1%	21.4%
English	13.2%	8.9%	58.1%
Arabic	4.5%	2.1%	1.1%
Spanish	3.2%	1.8%	1.3%
Italian	2.7%	1.6%	1.3%
Creole	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%
Mandarin	1.0%	0.1%	1.8%
Greek	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%
Romanian	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%
Portuguese	0.8%	0.5%	0.7%
Russian	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%
Vietnamese	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%
Persian (Farsi)	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%
Cantonese	0.6%	0.1%	1.7%
Tagalog (Filipino)	0.5%	0.2%	1.2%
Armenian	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
Tamil	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%
Punjabi (Panjabi)	0.3%	0.2%	1.4%
Polish	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%
Bengali	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
German	0.3%	0.2%	1.3%
Urdu	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%
Yiddish	0.2%	0.1%	<0.1%
Cambodian (Khmer)	0.2%	0.1%	<0.1%
Turkish	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
Gujarati	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
Hungarian	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
Bulgarian	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
Berber (Kabyle)	0.2%	0.1%	<0.1%
Unspecified Chinese	<0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Transportation[]

Exo operates the region's commuter rail and metropolitan bus services, and is the second busiest such system in Canada after Toronto's GO Transit. Established in June 2007, Exo's commuter rail system has six lines linking the downtown core with communities as far west as Hudson, as Far south as Mont-Saint-Hilaire, as far east as Mascouche, and as far north as Saint-Jérôme.

Along with Exo, a sister agency, the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) plans, integrates, and coordinates public transport across Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles and the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. The ARTM's mandate also includes the management of reserved High-occupancy vehicle lanes, metropolitan bus terminuses, park-and-ride lots, and a budget of $163 million, which is shared amongst the transit corporations and inter-municipal public transit organizations.

The Exo/ARTM's territory spans 63 municipalities and one native reserve, 13 regional county municipalities, and 21 transit authorities. It serves a population of approximately 3.7 million people who make more than 750,000 trips daily.^{[citation needed]}

The major transit commissions under the ARTM are:

• Société de transport de Montréal (English: Montreal Transit Corporation), serving the Island of Montreal
• Société de transport de Laval (English: Laval Transit Corporation), serving the city of Laval
• Réseau de transport de Longueuil (English: Longueuil Transit Network), serving the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil

Education[]

Postsecondary educational institutions in the Greater Montreal Area

Universities	CEGEPs and other colleges	Other schools
McGill University Concordia University Université de Montréal Université du Québec à Montréal Université de Sherbrooke (Longueuil) École de technologie supérieure École des hautes études commerciales École Polytechnique de Montréal Institut national de la recherche scientifique	Cégep André-Laurendeau Cégep Marie-Victorin Cégep de Saint-Laurent Cégep du Vieux-Montréal Champlain College Saint-Lambert (Saint-Lambert) Collège Ahuntsic Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Longueuil) Collège Gérald-Godin (Sainte-Geneviève) Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf Collège Lionel-Groulx (Sainte-Thérèse) Collège de Maisonneuve College Montmorency (Laval) Collège de Rosemont Dawson College (Westmount) Herzing College John Abbott College (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue) LaSalle College Marianopolis College (Westmount) Vanier College Collège de Valleyfield (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield)	Lambda School of Music and Fine Arts National Theatre School of Canada Rabbinical College of Canada School of Italian Giovanni Pascoli L'Académie de sécurité IGS

(In Montreal, except where otherwise noted.)

See also[]

• Montreal Urban Community

Notes[]

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

References[]

External links[]

• (in French) Metropolitan Community of Montreal website
• Act respecting the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (provincial statute)
• Greater Montreal Area Restaurants
• (in French) Greater Montreal Area map in .pdf

Coordinates: 45°34′N 73°40′W / 45.56°N 73.66°W / 45.56; -73.66