Canadian Arctic

Canadian Arctic: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.

zone · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07

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Arctic Canada at a glance

Rolled up from the 19 regions inside Arctic Canada on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.

Population117,895

census, summed from provinces/states

Places inside16

2 with a full /local page

Businesses on file2,358

business register, all places inside

Companies headquartered7

in the company directory

Who represents them2

places with a /politics page

Property & employers0 · 0

/property and /employers records

Who leads the provinces and territories inside

From each one's researched profile.

Northwest Territories — R.J. Simpson Premier ↗
Yukon — Currie Dixon Premier of Yukon, Yukon Party ↗
Nunavut — John Main Premier (chosen by MLAs under consensus government; no political parties) ↗

Census

Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population — summed from the province/state summaries; income, rent and rates are population-weighted means of their medians, not national medians.

Median household income$115,693

Median rent$1,067/mo

Immigrants9.2%

Renters52.7%

Aged 65+10%

Unemployment11.4%

Low income9.5%

Speak a non-official language at home18%

Non-official languages spoken most often at home

Inuktitut15,115 · 12.8%
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)1,030 · 0.9%
Tlicho (Dogrib)720 · 0.6%
Punjabi (Panjabi)445 · 0.4%
Yue (Cantonese)130 · 0.1%
Deh Gah Ghotie Zhatie (South Slavey)115 · 0.1%
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)115 · 0.1%
Vietnamese105 · 0.1%
German90 · 0.1%
Inuinnaqtun80 · 0.1%
Satuotine Yati (North Slavey)70 · 0.1%
Inuvialuktun25 · 0%

Provinces and territories

One row per census summary, largest first.

Name	Population	Median household income	Median rent	Immigrants	Unemployment	Businesses on file
Northwest Territories	40,960	$129,076	$1,382	10.4%	9.3%	949
Yukon	40,090	$103,484	$1,248	13.6%	7%	1,407
Nunavut	36,845	$114,101	$519	3.1%	18.4%	1

Largest places in Arctic Canada

By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.

1.Yellowknife, Northwest Territories full20,340
2.Red Lake, Ontario4,094
3.Kuujjuaq2,668
4.Puvirnituq (Povungnituk), Québec2,129
5.Dawson City, YT1,577
6.Kuujjuarapik1,000
7.Quaqtaq453

Inside Arctic Canada

12 regions have Arctic Canada as their parent.

Companies based in Arctic Canada

7 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Arctic Canada. Search them by name or industry.

areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Canadian Arctic are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.