Urban and rural areas - 'CMA/CA' versus 'Non-CMA/CA' variant

8.1 - Census metropolitan area and census agglomeration

Large urban areas (known as urban cores) together with adjacent urban and rural areas (known as urban and rural fringes) that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban cores. A census metropolitan area (CMA) has an urban core population of at least 100,000 and a census agglomeration (CA) has an urban core population between 10,000 and 100,000 based on the previous census.

8.1.1 - Urban core

Urban core is a large urban area within a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) that must have a population of at least 100,000 in the case of a census metropolitan area (CMA), or between 10,000 and 99,999 in the case of a census agglomeration (CA) based on the previous census and have a population density of at least 400 per square kilometre.

8.1.2 - Urban fringe

Urban fringe is the urban area within a census metropolitan area (CMA) or (CA) that is not contiguous to the urban core. It has a minimum population concentration of 1,000 and a population density of at least 400 per square kilometre, based on the previous census population counts.

8.1.3 - Rural fringe

Rural fringe is all territory within a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA) not classified as urban core or urban fringe.