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The population of Winnipeg was recorded at 749,607 in the 2021 Canadian Census, and was recorded at 705,244 in the 2016 census. This is a change in population of 44,363, which is an annual growth rate of 1.23%. Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada.
Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Winnipeg, Canada metro area from 1950 to 2024. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035. The current metro area population of Winnipeg in 2024 is 849,000, a 0.95% increase from 2023.
Despite being only the seventh-largest city in Canada, Winnipeg has the largest total population of urban and off-reserve Indigenous people in one city (90,995), including the largest total Métis population (47,915), and the largest total First Nations population (40,290).
As of 2021, Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it Canada's sixth-largest city and eighth-largest metropolitan area. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" – winipīhk.
Statistics Canada's Census Profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population - Winnipeg, City (CY) [Census subdivision], Manitoba.
Population and demographics. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg was home to 832,186 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 157 residents per square kilometre. Three in ten (30%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Manitoba (32%) and across Canada (28%).
Statistics Canada's Census Profile presents information from the 2016 Census of Population - Winnipeg, City [Census subdivision], Manitoba and Canada [Country].
