1961 Canadian census

1961 Canadian census
← 1956 June 16, 1961 (1961-06-16) 1966 →
General information
Country	Canada
Authority	Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Results
Total population	18,238,247 ( 13.4%)
Most populous ​province/territory	Ontario (6,236,092)
Least populous ​province/territory	Yukon (14,628)

The 1961 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was June 16, 1961. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 18,238,247. This was a 13.4% increase over the 1956 census of 16,080,791.^[1]

The previous census was the 1956 census and the following census was the 1966 census. This was the first census since 1901 in which all then-admitted provinces recorded a population of at least 100,000, and the last in which Saskatchewan had a larger population than neighbouring Manitoba.