Nipissing District
District in Ontario, Canada
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In 2021, the population was 84,716. The land area is 16,986.20 square kilometres (6,558.41 sq mi); the population density was 5.0 per square kilometre (13/sq mi), making it one of the most densely populated districts in northern Ontario.
History
The Sudbury District was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The Timiskaming District was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury Districts.
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Subdivisions
City:
- North Bay
Towns:
In addition, the eastern part of the town of Kearney is within Nipissing District, but the entire town is enumerated with the Parry Sound District.
Townships:
- Bonfield
- Calvin
- Chisholm
- East Ferris
- Mattawan
- Papineau-Cameron
- South Algonquin
Unorganized areas:
- North Part (Local services boards in this unorganized areas include Redbridge, Thorne, and Tilden Lake)
- South Part
First Nation reserves
- Bear Island 1
- Nipissing 10
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Nipissing District had a population of 84,716 living in 37,252 of its 41,974 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 83,150. With a land area of 16,986.2 km2 (6,558.4 sq mi), it had a population density of 5.0/km2 (12.9/sq mi) in 2021.