Table 2.8
Tree cover by census metropolitan area, 2011

Table 2.8
Tree cover by census metropolitan area, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Tree cover by census metropolitan area, 2011. Land area, Tree cover, Built-up, Proportion of tree cover, 2011 population and Tree cover per person (appearing as column headers).
  Land area Tree cover Built-up Proportion of tree cover 2011 population Tree cover per person
Census metropolitan area km2 percent number m2/person
Abbotsford–Mission 605 258 139 43 170,191 1,518
Barrie 898 195 155 22 187,013 1,041
Brantford 1,073 206 155 19 135,501 1,520
Calgary 5,108 319 700 6 1,214,839 263
Edmonton 9,427 1,216 1,094 13 1,159,869 1,048
Greater Sudbury 3,411 1,710 269 50 160,770 10,636
Guelph 594 152 112 26 141,097 1,078
Halifax 5,496 3,959 467 72 390,328 10,142
Hamilton 1,372 241 420 18 721,053 334
Kelowna 2,905 2,252 185 78 179,839 12,521
Kingston 1,939 659 208 34 159,561 4,133
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 827 114 281 14 477,160 239
London 2,666 265 415 10 474,786 557
Moncton 2,406 1,661 182 69 138,644 11,977
Montréal 4,258 842 1,571 20 3,824,221 220
Oshawa 904 166 236 18 356,177 466
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ont.) 3,287 979 635 30 921,823 1,062
Ottawa–Gatineau (Que.) 3,000 2,207 328 74 314,501 7,018
Peterborough 1,507 508 166 34 118,975 4,267
Québec 3,349 2,112 475 63 765,706 2,759
Regina 3,408 93 230 3 210,556 440
Saguenay 2,564 1,803 188 70 157,790 11,425
Saint John 3,363 2,597 250 77 127,761 20,324
Saskatoon 5,215 103 319 2 260,600 395
Sherbrooke 1,460 767 203 53 201,890 3,798
St. Catharines–Niagara 1,398 253 412 18 392,184 646
St. John's 805 472 181 59 196,966 2,397
Thunder Bay 2,556 1,342 193 53 121,596 11,038
Toronto 5,906 941 2,184 16 5,583,064 168
Trois-Rivières 1,041 357 147 34 151,773 2,349
Vancouver 2,883 1,383 995 48 2,313,328 598
Victoria 696 413 233 59 344,615 1,197
Windsor 1,022 29 258 3 319,246 92
Winnipeg 5,303 467 559 9 730,018 639
Note: Tree cover was estimated by summing the land cover classes 210–Coniferous, 220–Deciduous and 230–Mixedwood from AAFC Crop Inventory, 2011 (30 metres) for all land that was not otherwise categorized as built-up, arable or water.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2018, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division special tabulation from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 2013, AAFC Crop Inventory, 2011 (accessed August 10, 2015); AAFC, 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010 (accessed September 16, 2015); and the Census of Population, 2011.
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