List of francophone communities in Ontario

This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed.

The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. The majority of Franco-Ontarians in Ontario live in eastern and northeastern Ontario. While most communities in these areas have sizeable French minorities, several municipalities have francophone majorities.

Most such places are designated as French language service areas under the provincial French Language Services Act, meaning that Government of Ontario services must be available in French.

Municipality Type County, district, or regional municipality Total population[1] Percentage of population whose mother tongue is French[1]
Alfred and Plantagenet Township Prescott and Russell 9,949 71%
Armstrong Township Timiskaming 1,199 52%
Beckwith Township Lanark 9,021 5%
Black River-Matheson Township Cochrane 2,572 23%
Blind River Town Algoma 3,422 14%
Bonfield Township Nipissing 2,146 20%
Callander Municipality Parry Sound 3,964 9%
Carleton Place Town Lanark 12,517 5%
Casselman Village Prescott and Russell 3,960 71%
Central Manitoulin Municipality Manitoulin 2,235 4%
Champlain Township Prescott and Russell 8,665 59%
Clarence-Rockland City Prescott and Russell 26,505 57%
Chapleau Township Sudbury 1,942 33%
Chisholm Township Nipissing 1,312 10%
Cochrane Town Cochrane 5,390 33%
Cornwall City Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 47,845 19%
Deep River Town Renfrew 4,175 5%
East Ferris Municipality Nipissing 4,946 19%
East Hawkesbury Township Prescott and Russell 3,418 58%
Elliot Lake City Algoma 11,372 12%
Englehart Town Timiskaming 1,442 7%
Espanola Town Sudbury 5,185 12%
French River Municipality Sudbury 2,828 39%
Greater Sudbury City Single-tier municipality 166,004 23%
Greenstone Municipality Thunder Bay 4,309 21%
Hawkesbury Town Prescott and Russell 10,194 72%
Hearst Town Cochrane 4,794 84%
Huron Shores Municipality Algoma 1,860 5%
Ignace Township Kenora 1,206 7%
Iroquois Falls Town Cochrane 4,418 33%
Kapuskasing Town Cochrane 8,057 63%
Kirkland Lake Town Timiskaming 7,750 12%
Lakeshore Town Essex 40,410 5%
Laurentian Hills Town Renfrew 2,885 6%
Laurentian Valley Township Renfrew 9,450 5%
Manitouwadge Township Thunder Bay 1,974 12%
Marathon Town Thunder Bay 3,138 9%
Markstay-Warren Municipality Sudbury 2,708 30%
Mattawa Town Nipissing 1,881 25%
Merrickville–Wolford Village Leeds and Grenville 3,135 6%
Moonbeam Township Cochrane 1,157 71%
Nipissing Indian reserve Nipissing 1,640 14%
North Bay City Nipissing 52,662 11%
North Dundas Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 11,304 8%
North Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 10,144 35%
North Grenville Municipality Leeds and Grenville 17,964 6%
North Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 7,400 26%
Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands Town Manitoulin 2,641 5%
Ottawa City Single-tier municipality 1,017,449 13%
Pembroke City Renfrew 14,364 6%
Penetanguishene Town Simcoe 10,077 8%
Petawawa Town Renfrew 18,160 10%
Russell Township Prescott and Russell 19,598 38%
Sables-Spanish Rivers Township Sudbury 3,237 9%
St. Charles Municipality Sudbury 1,357 41%
Smooth Rock Falls Town Cochrane 1,200 58%
South Glengarry Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,330 25%
South Stormont Township Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry 13,570 14%
Temiskaming Shores City Timiskaming 9,634 28%
Terrace Bay Township Thunder Bay 1,528 4%
The Nation Municipality Prescott and Russell 13,350 63%
Timmins City Cochrane 41,145 33%
Tiny Township Simcoe 12,966 7%
Wawa Municipality Algoma 2,705 17%
Welland City Niagara 55,750 7%
West Nipissing Municipality Nipissing 14,583 56%

A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. These include the francophone-majority municipalities of Dubreuilville (79%), Fauquier-Strickland (68%), Mattice-Val Côté (82%), Opasatika (63%), and Val Rita-Harty (71%).

Small francophone-minority municipalities include Baldwin (11%), Billings (10%), Brethour (10%), Calvin (10%), Casey (42%), Chamberlain (6%), Chapleau Cree Fox Lake (8%), Charlton and Dack (5%), Cobalt (13%), Coleman (25%), Dokis (10%), Dorion (5%), Evanturel (9%), Gauthier (17%), Harley (28%), Harris (30%), Head, Clara and Maria (6%), Hornepayne (10%), Hilliard (21%), Hudson (18%), James (19%), Jocelyn (7%), Kerns (11%), Larder Lake (19%), Latchford (11%), Matachewan (17%), Matachewan (15%), Mattagami (5%), Mattawan (26%), McGarry (38%), Nairn and Hyman (9%), Temagami (13%), The North Shore (15%), Papineau-Cameron (22%), Spanish (18%), Thornloe (28%), and White River (13%).

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  1. ^ a b "2021 Census Profile". 29 March 2023.