Central Plains Region

Central Plains Region
Central Plains Region
Region of Manitoba
	Map of the Central Plains Region in Manitoba.
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Area
• Total	10,655.94 km2 (4,114.28 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	51,129
• Density	4.8/km2 (12/sq mi)

The Central Plains Region (French: Région des plaines centrales) is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba located in the south central part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, directly west of Winnipeg.^[2]

Its major urban centre is the City of Portage la Prairie. Together with the Pembina Valley Region to the south, the Central Plains Region composes the broader cultural region of Central Manitoba.^[2]^[3] Geographically, the region is considered to be a part of southern Manitoba, and is serviced by the Southern Regional Health Authority.

As of the 2016 census, the region had a population of 50,300 (compared to 48,289 in the 2001 census).^[4]^[5]^[6]

Major communities

Rural municipality	Unincorporated communities	Census division
Cartier	Elie (local urban district) St. Eustache Springstein (hamlet)	No. 10
Grey	Culross Elm Creek (local urban district) Fannystelle Haywood (local urban district) St. Claude (local urban district)	No. 9
Glenella-Lansdowne	Glenella Waldersee	No. 8
Lorne	Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes (local urban district)	No. 8 (partly in No. 4)
Macdonald	Brunkild Domain La Salle Oak Bluff Osborne Sanford Starbuck	No. 10
Norfolk Treherne	Rathwell Treherne	No. 8
North Norfolk	Arizona Austin (local urban district) Bagot MacGregor Sidney	No. 8
Portage la Prairie	Bloom Curtis Delta Beach Edwin Fortier Fulton High Bluff Layland Longburn Macdonald Newton Oakland Oakville (local urban district) Poplar Point Rignold St. Ambroise Southport	No. 9
St. François Xavier	Dacotah St. Francois Xavier White Horse Plains	No. 10
Victoria	Cypress River (local urban district) Holland (local urban district)	No. 8
WestLake – Gladstone	Gladstone (unincorporated urban community) Plumas (local urban district) Westbourne	No. 8

^ "North Central economic region statistics". Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Manitoba's Tourist Regions". MACAP. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
^ "In Your Community". Manitoba Parent Zone - Healthy Child Manitoba. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
^ Statistics Canada (2017-02-08). "Division No. 9, Census division [Census division], Manitoba and Manitoba [Province] | Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
^ Statistics Canada (2017-02-08). "Division No. 8, Census division [Census division], Manitoba and Manitoba [Province] | Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
^ Statistics Canada (2017-02-08). "Division No. 10, Census division [Census division], Manitoba and Manitoba [Province] | Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2021-08-03.