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Subdivisions of Winnipeg

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, is subdivided in different ways for different purposes. The suburbs and neighbourhoods of Winnipeg take their names from former administrative districts, parishes, and geographic features.

City wards

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As of 2021, the City of Winnipeg is subdivided into 15 electoral wards, each represented by an individual member of City Council. The 15 city wards are further subdivided into 230 neighbourhoods.[1][2]

Under the City of Winnipeg Charter, the boundaries and the name of each ward of Winnipeg are to be established at least every 10 years by a report prepared by the Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission (WWBC). In December 2017, the WWBC published its final report on new ward boundaries for the city, to be made effective September 2018. The Commission made its recommendations in consideration of the changes in distribution of the city's population as per the 2016 census. The most significant changes were the elimination of the St. Charles ward and the creation of a new Waverley West ward.[3][4]

The 15 wards are categorized into one of five community committees, which deal with local community issues. This includes:[5]

Community areas and neighbourhood clusters

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The City of Winnipeg has been subdivided into two levels of areas, or relative segments, developed by the Community Data Program of the national Canadian Community Economic Development Network, in partnership with the federal and provincial governments and local community organizations.[9]

Community areas are the broader, less detailed level of areas, which allow for geographical analysis and comparisons, i.e. census data, as used by Statistics Canada.[10][9] As of the 2016 census, Winnipeg is composed of 12 community areas.[11] There is also a separate set of 72 community centre areas, defining the catchment areas of community centres.[10]

Community areas are composed of the second level of areas, neighbourhood clusters (formerly "Neighbourhood Resource Networks" or NRN), which are used for planning and policy purposes by Manitoba Health and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA).[9] As of the 2016 census, there are 23 neighbourhood clusters, composing the Winnipeg census division.[12]

The neighbourhood clusters are in turn subdivided into the same 230 neighbourhoods that make up the city wards of Winnipeg.[11][13] Many of these clusters, community areas, and neighbourhoods share names and locations with the wards; however, ward boundaries and neighbourhood boundaries do not always perfectly align with one another (For example, the St. James-Assiniboia community area extends further west but lesser east than the St. James ward).

Community areas and neighbourhood clusters of Winnipeg, 2016
Community area[11] Neighbourhood cluster(s)[12] Neighbourhoods
Assiniboine South[14] Assiniboine South
Downtown Downtown East[15]
Downtown West[16]
Fort Garry Fort Garry North[17]
  • Beaumont
  • Brockville
  • Buffalo
  • Crescent Park
  • Linden Ridge
  • Linden Woods
  • Maybank
  • Parker
  • Pembina Strip
  • Point Road
  • West Fort Garry Industrial
  • Whyte Ridge
  • Wildwood
Fort Garry South
Inkster Inkster East[18]
  • Brooklands
  • Burrows–Keewatin
  • Inkster Industrial Park
  • Pacific Industrial
  • Shaughnessy Park
  • Weston
  • Weston Shops
Inkster West[19]
  • Inkster Gardens
  • North Inkster Industrial
  • Oak Point Highway
  • Tyndall Park
Point Douglas Point Douglas North[20]
  • Burrows Central
  • Inkster–Faraday
  • Luxton
  • Mynarski
  • Robertson
  • St. John's
  • St. John's Park
Point Douglas South[21]
  • Dufferin
  • Dufferin Industrial
  • Lord Selkirk Park
  • North Point Douglas
  • South Point Douglas
  • William Whyte
River East River East East[22]
  • Eaglemere
  • Grassie
  • Kil-cona Park
  • Kildonan Crossing
  • McLeod Industrial
  • Munroe East
  • North Transcona Yards
  • Springfield North
  • Springfield South
  • Valley Gardens
River East South[23]
  • Chalmers
  • East Elmwood
  • Glenelm
  • Talbot–Grey
  • Tyne-Tees
River East West[24]
  • Kildonan Drive
  • Munroe West
  • River East
  • Rossmere–A
  • Rossmere–B
  • Valhalla
River Heights River Heights East[25]
  • Lord Roberts
  • McMillan
  • River-Osborne
  • Riverview
  • Roslyn
River Heights West[26]
  • Central River Heights
  • Crescentwood
  • Earl Grey
  • Ebby–Wentworth
  • Grant Park
  • J.B. Mitchell
  • Mathers
  • North River Heights
  • Rockwood
  • Sir John Franklin
  • South River Heights
  • Wellington Crescent
Seven Oaks Seven Oaks East
  • Garden City
  • Jefferson
  • Leila North
  • Leila–McPhillips Triangle
  • Margaret Park
  • Riverbend
  • Rivergrove
  • Seven Oaks
  • Templeton–Sinclair
  • West Kildonan Industrial
Seven Oaks West
St. Boniface St. Boniface East
  • Archwood
  • Dufresne
  • Dugald
  • Fraipont
  • Holden
  • Island Lakes
  • Maginot
  • The Mint
  • Mission Industrial
  • Niakwa Park
  • Niakwa Place
  • Royalwood
  • Sage Creek
  • Southdale
  • Southland Park
  • St. Boniface Industrial Park
  • Stock Yards
  • Symington Yards
  • Tissot
  • Windsor Park
St. Boniface West
  • Central St. Boniface
  • North St. Boniface
  • Norwood East
  • Norwood West
St. James–Assiniboia St. James-Assiniboia East
  • Airport
  • Birchwood
  • Booth
  • Bruce Park
  • Deer Lodge
  • Jameswood
  • Kensington
  • King Edward
  • Murray Industrial Park
  • Omand's Creek Industrial
  • Silver Heights
  • St. James Industrial
  • Woodhaven
St. James-Assiniboia West
  • Assiniboia Downs
  • Buchanan
  • Crestview
  • Glendale
  • Heritage Park
  • Kirkfield
  • Saskatchewan North
  • Sturgeon Creek
  • Westwood
St. Vital St. Vital North
  • Alpine Place
  • Elm Park
  • Glenwood
  • Kingston Crescent
  • Lavalee
  • Norberry
  • Pulberry
  • St. George
  • Varennes
  • Victoria Crescent
  • Worthington
St. Vital South
Transcona Transcona
  • Canterbury Park
  • Griffin
  • Kern Park
  • Kildare–Redonda
  • Meadows
  • Melrose
  • Mission Gardens
  • Peguis
  • Radisson
  • Regent
  • Transcona South
  • Transcona Yards
  • Victoria West

For health planning, the WRHA also includes two relatively densely-populated rural municipalities that are located outside of Winnipeg: the RM of East St. Paul is included in River East, and West St. Paul in Seven Oaks.[9]

Downtown and Inner City

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The Inner City was defined for planning purposes in the 1980s by the three-government Core Area Initiative.

Within the Inner City, the Downtown Winnipeg Zoning By-Law defines an area for regulation of downtown development, significantly smaller than the Downtown community area.

The Exchange District is a National Historic Site of Canada.

School divisions

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Winnipeg is divided into school divisions, further subdivided into wards represented by several school trustees.[27]

Census subdivisions

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The city is contained in the Winnipeg census metropolitan area (CMA), including several other municipalities, and the smaller Winnipeg census division, which also includes the town of Headingley. The city itself is designated subdivision 11 040, further broken down into census tracts and, in turn, into dissemination areas.

Unicity

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Today's Winnipeg is the product of the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, since 1960) into an amalgamated unicity. Residents still refer to these historical communities:

References

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  1. ^ City Clerk. "Committees of Council - City Council". City of Winnipeg. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  2. ^ Winnipeg Council. "Electoral Wards". City of Winnipeg. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  3. ^ Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission. 2017 December. "2017 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission: Balancing for Future Growth" (Final Report). City of Winnipeg.
  4. ^ Winnipeg, City of. "The 2017 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission - City Clerk's Department - City of Winnipeg". winnipeg.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  5. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/pdfs/CommunityCommitteeMembers.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ a b "City Clerk's eGovernment".
  7. ^ "City Clerk's eGovernment".
  8. ^ "City Clerk's eGovernment".
  9. ^ a b c d "Concept: Neighbourhood Clusters (NC)." Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. 2008 December 19.
  10. ^ a b "Concept: Community Centre Areas (CCAs)." Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. 2012 July 31.
  11. ^ a b c "Community Area Profiles - 2016 Census". City of Winnipeg. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  12. ^ a b "Neighbourhood Cluster Profiles - 2016 Census - Census - City of Winnipeg".
  13. ^ "Neighbourhood Cluster Profiles - 2006 Census - Census - City of Winnipeg".
  14. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Assiniboine%20South%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/default.asp
  15. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Downtown%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Downtown%20East/default.asp
  16. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Downtown%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Downtown%20West/default.asp
  17. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Fort%20Garry%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Fort%20Garry%20North/default.asp
  18. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Inkster%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Inkster%20East/default.asp
  19. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Inkster%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Inkster%20West/default.asp
  20. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Point%20Douglas%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Point%20Douglas%20North/default.asp
  21. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/Point%20Douglas%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/Point%20Douglas%20South/default.asp
  22. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/River%20East%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/River%20East%20East/default.asp
  23. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/River%20East%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/River%20East%20South/default.asp
  24. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/River%20East%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/River%20East%20West/default.asp
  25. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/River%20Heights%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/River%20Heights%20East/default.asp
  26. ^ https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Areas/River%20Heights%20Neighbourhood%20Cluster/Neighbourhoods/River%20Heights%20West/default.asp
  27. ^ "City of Winnipeg - UD : 2006 Election Candidate Ward Maps". Archived from the original on 2011-01-30. Retrieved 2011-01-26.

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