Subdivisions of Winnipeg

As of 2002, the city is subdivided into five community committees, composed of city wards, each represented by a member of City Council. There are 15 wards, further subdivided into 230 neighbourhoods.[1]

The city published a final report on new ward boundaries in December 2017, to be made effective September 2018.[2] The most significant changes are the elimination of the St. Charles ward and the creation of a new Waverley West ward.

• Assiniboia
  • Charleswood–Tuxedo–Whyte Ridge (Charleswood–Tuxedo before March 1, 2015[3])
  • St. Charles
  • St. James–Brooklands–Weston (St. James–Brooklands before March 1, 2015;[4] St. James before April 1, 2003[5])
• East Kildonan–Transcona
  • Elmwood–East Kildonan
  • North Kildonan
  • Transcona
• City Centre
  • Daniel McIntyre
  • Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry (Fort Rouge before April 1, 2003[6])
  • River Heights–Fort Garry
• Lord Selkirk–West Kildonan
  • Mynarski
  • Old Kildonan
  • Point Douglas
• Riel
  • St. Boniface
  • St. Norbert
  • St. Vital

For the purpose of health and community services, the city is subdivided into 12 community areas (sometimes called community characterization areas, CCAs), broken down into 23 neighbourhood clusters (formerly Neighbourhood Resource Networks), in turn subdivided into the same 230 neighbourhoods which make up the city wards. Statistics Canada also reports census information subdivided this way for the purposes of city planning.[7]

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority also includes two relatively densely populated rural municipalities, outside of Winnipeg, for health planning. They include the R.M. of East St. Paul in River East, and West St. Paul in Seven Oaks.[8]

There is also a separate set of 72 community centre areas, defining the catchment areas of community centres.[9]

Community areas and neighbourhood clusters:

• Assiniboine South
  • Assiniboine South
• Downtown
  • Downtown East
  • Downtown West
• Fort Garry
  • Fort Garry North
  • Fort Garry South
• Inkster
  • Inkster East
  • Inkster West
• Point Douglas
  • Point Douglas North
  • Point Douglas South
• River East
  • River East East
  • River East South
  • River East West
• River Heights
  • River Heights East
  • River Heights West
• St. Boniface
  • St. Boniface East
  • St. Boniface West
• St. James–Assiniboia
  • St. James-Assiniboia East
  • St. James-Assiniboia West
• St. Vital
  • St. Vital North
  • St. Vital South
• Seven Oaks
  • Seven Oaks East
  • Seven Oaks West
• Transcona

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.

Winnipeg is divided into school divisions, further subdivided into wards represented by several school trustees.[10]

• Louis Riel School Division
• Pembina Trails School Division
• River East Transcona School Division
• Seven Oaks School Division
• St. James–Assiniboia School Division
• Winnipeg School Division

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.

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:

• Charleswood (rural municipality)
• East Kildonan (city)
• Fort Garry (R.M.)
• Headingley (R.M., seceded from Unicity in 1993)
• North Kildonan (R.M.)
• Old Kildonan (R.M.)
• St. Boniface (city)
• St. James–Assiniboia (city)
• St. Vital (city)
• Transcona (city)
• Tuxedo (town)
• West Kildonan (city)
• Winnipeg (city)

• Winnipeg Neighbourhood Area Characterization Boundaries (map)
• 2009 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission Final Report