Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is roughly half way between Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec along the three major east-west transportation routes in Central Canada: the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Ontario Highway 401 (the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, which turns into Quebec Autoroute 20), and Canadian National Railways' Windsor to Québec City Corridor. Kingston also lies at the south end of the Rideau Canal, originally built to connect Lake Ontario with the Ottawa River in order to provide a safe transportation route far from the American border. Kingston's airport, Norman Rogers Airport (CYGK), has regularly-scheduled air service to Toronto.

Demographics

According to the mid-2001 census, the population estimates there were 146,838 people residing in Kingston, located in the province of Ontario, of whom 49.1 per cent were male and 50.9 per cent were female. Children under five accounted for approximately 5.1 per cent of the resident population of Kingston. This compares with 5.8 per cent in Ontario, and almost 5.6 per cent for Canada overall.

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In mid-2001, 14.1 per cent of the resident population in Kingston were of retirement age (65 and over for males and females) compared with 13.2 per cent in Canada, therefore, the average age is 38.1 years of age comparing to 37.6 years of age for all of Canada.

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In the five years between 1996 and 2001, the population of Kingston grew by 1.6 per cent, compared with an increase of 6.1 per cent for Ontario as a whole. Population density of Kingston averaged 77.0 people per square kilometre, compared with an average of 12.6, for Ontario altogether.

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At the time of the census in May 2001, the resident population of the Kingston city authority had 146,838 people, compared with a resident population in the province of Ontario of 11,410,050 people.

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Racial make-up

• White: 133,715 or 95.7% (chiefly British, Irish, French, and Italian)
• Asian: 1,405 or 1.0% (chiefly Indian, and Sri Lankan)
• Chinese: 1,400 or 1.0%
• mixed race: 1,030 or 0.7% (chiefly those of Black and White origins)
• Black: 655 or 0.4% (almost exclusively Jamaican)
• (based on single responses)

Religious make-up

• Protestant: 43.6%
• Roman Catholic: 33.1%
• Other Christian: 1.6%
• No religion: 18.0%