Facts & Stats
The numbers show that the City of Markham is thriving! We are Canada's high-tech capital and its 16th-largest municipality. We are the largest of nine communities in York Region. We have a population of over 353,000 and a land area of 212 square kilometres. Of the 10,400 companies in Markham, there are more than 400 Canadian head offices located here. Those head offices include:
- IBM
- Aviva Insurance
- AMD
- Bank of China
- GE Digital Energy
- Honeywell
- Huawei Technologies
- Lenovo
- Johnson & Johnson
- Toshiba
- Honda
- Hyundai
There are also more than 1,000 technology and life sciences companies in Markham. These sectors employ 37,000 people, which is more than one-fifth of the total workforce of 167,500.
Learn more in the PDFs below:
- Top 100 Employers in Markham, by Number of Employees. (Updated: March 2018) [PDF]
- Economic/Demographic Profile (Updated: May 2018) [PDF]
- Markham Census Profile 2016 (2016 statistics from Statistics Canada Website)
- Markham Census Profile 2011 (2011 statistics from Statistics Canada Website)
- Markham National Household Survey Profile 2011 (2011 statistics from Statistics Canada Website)
- Markham City-Wide Demographics Quick Facts 2016 (2016 statistics from Statistics Canada Website) (Updated June 2018) [PDF]
- Quick Facts Supplementary Graphs (added March 2014) [PDF]
- Understanding the Quick Facts (added March 2014) [PDF]
- Ward Profiles for 2016 — population, Education, Employment and Language Statistics by Ward from the 2016 National Household Survey and Census Data