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Dartmouth (/ ˈ d ɑːr t m ə θ / DART-məth) (Scottish-Gaelic: Baile nan Loch) is a built-up community of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has 101,343 residents as of 2024.
The Halifax population centre is the largest urban area in Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada recognizes a total of 37 population centres in the province. [5]The below table is a list of those population centres in Nova Scotia from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
At 23,829 hectares (238.29 square kilometres; 92.00 square miles), Halifax's urban area (defined as population centre by Statistics Canada) is less than five percent of the municipal land area. [60] The area surrounds Halifax Harbour and its main centres are Bedford , Dartmouth , and Halifax (and their respective environs).
Statistics Canada's 2021 Census article Table 5 Population by proximity to downtown, census metropolitan areas, 2016 to 2021 recorded 25,555 people who lived within Downtown Halifax. [ 4 ] From 2016 to 2021, the population increased by 5,288 people (an increase of over 26%) from the 2016 population of 20,267 people.
Most communities of the Halifax Regional Municipality are marked with Welcome to our Community signs . Halifax Regional Municipality has many different communities that vary from rural to urban . With a land area of 5,475.57 km 2 (2,114.13 sq mi), [ 1 ] there are more-than 200 communities-and-neighbourhoods within its boundaries.
In 1987, the Dartmouth riding was created, taking in nearly all of the former territory of Dartmouth—Halifax East. The electoral district of Dartmouth—Cole Harbour in 2004 was created from 86.8% of the population of the new riding came from Dartmouth, and 13.2% from Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore.
The population density was approximately 29 inhabitants per hectare (2,900/km 2; 7,500/sq mi). Two goals of the plan is to increase the residential units by 18,000 units by 2031. Additionally, the plan is to increase the population from 96,619 people in 2016 to 130,000 people by 2031.