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| Census metropolitan areas | Car - As drivers | Car - As passengers | Total - Car users | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | |
| percentage | |||||||||
| Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1996 to 2006. | |||||||||
| Total | 71.0 | 71.2 | 69.4 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 78.1 | 77.8 | 76.8 |
| St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador) | 76.5 | 77.3 | 74.4 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 13.8 | 89.2 | 89.5 | 88.2 |
| Halifax (Nova Scotia) | 66.8 | 68.0 | 65.1 | 10.5 | 9.6 | 10.6 | 77.3 | 77.6 | 75.8 |
| Moncton (New Brunswick) | 77.4 | 77.9 | 74.7 | 10.8 | 10.3 | 12.4 | 88.2 | 88.2 | 87.1 |
| Saint John (New Brunswick) | 75.4 | 76.5 | 75.1 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 11.2 | 86.7 | 87.0 | 86.3 |
| Saguenay (Quebec) | 83.3 | 85.1 | 85.1 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 89.8 | 90.0 | 90.4 |
| Québec (Quebec) | 76.3 | 76.0 | 74.9 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 82.1 | 81.2 | 80.3 |
| Sherbrooke (Quebec) | 80.1 | 79.9 | 80.3 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 85.9 | 85.6 | 86.1 |
| Trois-Rivières (Quebec) | 84.1 | 84.3 | 84.8 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 88.8 | 88.9 | 89.4 |
| Montréal (Quebec) | 66.7 | 65.8 | 65.4 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 72.2 | 70.6 | 70.4 |
| Ottawa - Gatineau (Ontario / Quebec) | 64.2 | 64.7 | 62.7 | 8.7 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 73.0 | 72.1 | 70.7 |
| Ottawa - Gatineau (Quebec part) | 72.7 | 70.7 | 69.5 | 10.1 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 82.7 | 79.5 | 78.5 |
| Ottawa - Gatineau (Ontario part) | 61.5 | 62.7 | 60.4 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 69.8 | 69.6 | 68.0 |
| Kingston (Ontario) | 73.9 | 74.2 | 73.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 9.3 | 82.2 | 82.4 | 82.4 |
| Peterborough (Ontario) | 78.7 | 79.3 | 76.4 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 9.9 | 87.5 | 87.6 | 86.3 |
| Oshawa (Ontario) | 81.2 | 80.2 | 79.0 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 89.3 | 88.0 | 87.6 |
| Toronto (Ontario) | 65.3 | 65.2 | 63.6 | 6.7 | 6.3 | 7.5 | 71.9 | 71.4 | 71.1 |
| Hamilton (Ontario) | 78.1 | 78.2 | 76.1 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 8.5 | 85.4 | 85.3 | 84.6 |
| St. Catharines - Niagara (Ontario) | 83.0 | 83.8 | 81.0 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 90.8 | 91.1 | 89.9 |
| Kitchener (Ontario) | 79.8 | 81.3 | 78.3 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 88.6 | 89.3 | 87.7 |
| Brantford (Ontario) | 82.5 | 82.6 | 80.2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 90.7 | 90.8 | 89.7 |
| Guelph (Ontario) | 75.8 | 77.9 | 76.0 | 9.1 | 7.0 | 8.5 | 84.9 | 84.8 | 84.5 |
| London (Ontario) | 77.5 | 78.0 | 75.5 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 9.1 | 85.4 | 85.8 | 84.6 |
| Windsor (Ontario) | 82.6 | 83.8 | 83.1 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 89.7 | 90.3 | 90.6 |
| Barrie (Ontario) | 81.5 | 83.0 | 81.2 | 9.2 | 8.4 | 9.4 | 90.6 | 91.4 | 90.6 |
| Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury (Ontario) | 77.8 | 78.2 | 77.4 | 9.3 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 87.1 | 87.0 | 86.9 |
| Thunder Bay (Ontario) | 81.1 | 82.5 | 79.8 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 88.9 | 89.5 | 88.4 |
| Winnipeg (Manitoba) | 68.2 | 70.2 | 69.8 | 9.0 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 77.3 | 78.6 | 78.7 |
| Regina (Saskatchewan) | 79.2 | 80.3 | 79.6 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 87.2 | 88.2 | 87.7 |
| Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) | 77.8 | 79.7 | 78.7 | 7.3 | 6.6 | 7.5 | 85.0 | 86.2 | 86.1 |
| Calgary (Alberta) | 72.8 | 71.8 | 69.1 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 7.5 | 80.1 | 78.6 | 76.6 |
| Edmonton (Alberta) | 76.9 | 77.7 | 75.0 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 83.8 | 84.3 | 82.8 |
| Kelowna (British Columbia) | 83.6 | 83.3 | 81.4 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 7.7 | 90.3 | 89.2 | 89.1 |
| Abbotsford (British Columbia) | 84.5 | 84.4 | 83.2 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 10.0 | 93.2 | 93.1 | 93.2 |
| Vancouver (British Columbia) | 70.6 | 72.2 | 67.3 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 77.2 | 79.2 | 74.4 |
| Victoria (British Columbia) | 67.1 | 67.5 | 64.9 | 6.8 | 6.0 | 6.8 | 74.0 | 73.5 | 71.7 |
