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Table 1
Employment within census metropolitan areas, September 20081

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  Total employment2 Federal government employment Federal government employment as a proportion of total employment
  thousands %
Ottawa–Gatineau 678.7 124.8 18.4
Halifax 209.4 17.0 8.1
Kingston 80.8 4.6 5.7
Victoria 192.8 9.7 5.0
St. John's 101.6 4.9 4.8
Moncton 74.1 3.0 4.0
Québec 397.5 14.3 3.6
Saguenay 71.4 2.3 3.3
Winnipeg 396.0 12.0 3.0
Regina 115.3 3.3 2.8
Greater Sudbury 82.4 2.1 2.5
Edmonton 620.8 13.3 2.1
Saskatoon 139.3 2.5 1.8
Saint John 64.6 1.1 1.7
Abbotsford 90.7 1.5 1.7
Sherbrooke 84.3 1.2 1.4
Vancouver 1,243.8 17.4 1.4
Windsor 157.7 2.1 1.3
Thunder Bay 63.4 0.8 1.3
Montréal 1,921.3 23.6 1.2
London 248.4 2.3 0.9
Guelph 75.3 0.6 0.8
Hamilton 379.6 2.9 0.8
Toronto 2,923.7 21.4 0.7
Trois-Rivières 69.2 0.5 0.7
St. Catharines–Niagara 200.7 1.3 0.6
Calgary 715.3 4.3 0.6
Brantford 53.6 0.3 0.6
Peterborough 57.7 0.3 0.6
Kitchener 257.9 1.1 0.4
Kelowna 98.8 0.4 0.4
Barrie 95.9 0.2 0.2
Oshawa 188.4 0.3 0.2
Total 12,150.4 297.2 2.4
1.Go online to view the census subdivisions that comprise the census metropolitan areas.
2.Data obtained from the Labour Force Survey, based on the 2001 Standard Geographical Classification.

Date Modified: 2008-11-27

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