Table 1 
Rural and urban firms with payroll employees, by size category, Canada, 2007

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  Size of firm1
1 to 4 5 to 49 50 to 199 200 or more All firms
number of firms
All areas 633,258 390,791 47,392 11,136 1,082,577
Larger urban centres 476,650 320,850 41,555 10,067 849,122
All rural and small town areas 156,608 69,941 5,837 1,069 233,455
Strong metropolitan influenced zone 34,713 14,103 1,114 169 50,099
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone 57,717 23,384 1,946 334 83,381
Weak metropolitan influenced zone 55,875 29,314 2,576 528 88,293
No metropolitan influenced zone 8,303 3,140 201 38 11,682
  percent of firms across each size category
All areas 58 36 4 1 100
Larger urban centres 56 38 5 1 100
All rural and small town areas 67 30 3 0 100
Strong metropolitan influenced zone 69 28 2 0 100
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone 69 28 2 0 100
Weak metropolitan influenced zone 63 33 3 1 100
No metropolitan influenced zone 71 27 2 0 100
  percent of firms across each region
All areas 100 100 100 100 100
Larger urban centres 75 82 88 90 78
All rural and small town areas 25 18 12 10 22
Strong metropolitan influenced zone 5 4 2 2 5
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone 9 6 4 3 8
Weak metropolitan influenced zone 9 8 5 5 8
No metropolitan influenced zone 1 1 0 0 1
1. Number of employee full-time equivalents (Box 1).
Note: Due to rounding, numbers may not sum to totals.
Source: Statistics Canada, Business Register, 2007.