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Table 1.5
Migration exchanges between the central municipality and the peripheral municipalities within selected census metropolitan areas, 2001 to 2006

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Census metropolitan area1 Number of migrants Net migration rate
To suburbs To central municipality Suburbs Central municipality
  number percentage
Total 470,580 208,095 3.7 -3.7
Toronto 207,525 55,745 7.0 -6.6
Montréal 123,605 55,870 3.8 -4.6
Edmonton 21,580 14,860 2.6 -1.1
Québec 14,025 9,450 2.3 -1.0
Windsor 5,820 3,645 2.2 -1.1
St. John's 3,920 2,390 2.2 -1.6
Peterborough 2,465 1,785 1.8 -1.0
Oshawa 8,305 5,570 1.8 -2.1
Saint John 2,740 1,885 1.7 -1.3
Vancouver 45,205 26,495 1.4 -3.7
St. Catharines - Niagara 8,465 6,365 1.3 -1.1
Victoria 3,980 2,180 0.8 -2.4
Moncton 2,105 1,800 0.6 -0.5
Hamilton 7,960 7,360 0.4 -0.1
Kitchener 7,475 6,795 0.3 -0.4
Kelowna 1,725 1,730 0.0 0.0
Brantford 1,440 1,540 -0.3 0.1
Barrie 2,240 2,630 -0.9 0.4
1.  Includes census metropolitan areas where at least one-third of the population live in a peripheral municipality.
Source:  Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, Report on the Demographic Situation in Canada: 2005 and 2006, catalogue number 91-209-X.