Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot: Find out if your community is remote

To participate in the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, your community must meet all the eligibility criteria. This includes meeting population criteria.

One of the ways your community can meet the population criteria is by:

• having a population of up to 200,000 people and
• being considered remote from other larger cities

For this pilot, we’re using Statistics Canada’s Index of Remoteness to help us define which communities are considered remote. The Index of Remoteness is an experimental research product determined by distance from another city that offers public services and by population size.

We’ll consider communities remote if their remoteness index is equal to, or greater than 0.25.

Find your community’s remoteness index

The Index of Remoteness lists all communities with populations between 1,000 and 200,000 people, according to the 2016 census. We didn’t include communities from Quebec and Atlantic Canada, as these provinces aren’t included in the pilot.

Find your community’s remoteness index in the table below. If the index meets our definition of remote, your community may be eligible to participate in the pilot.

Send us an email if you need help or have any questions about the index.