Subdivisions of Winnipeg#Community areas and neighbourhood clusters

{{See also|Winnipeg City Council#Wards}}

{{As of|2021}}, the City of Winnipeg is subdivided into 15 electoral wards, each represented by an individual member of City Council. The 15 city wards are further subdivided into 230 neighbourhoods.{{Cite web|last=City Clerk|title=Committees of Council - City Council|url=https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/council/committees.stm|access-date=2021-06-15|website=City of Winnipeg|language=en-ca}}{{Cite web|last=Winnipeg Council|title=Electoral Wards|url=https://winnipeg.ca/council/wards/#/2018|access-date=2021-06-15|website=City of Winnipeg|language=English}}

Under the City of Winnipeg Charter, the boundaries and the name of each ward of Winnipeg are to be established at least every 10 years by a report prepared by the Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission (WWBC). In December 2017, the WWBC published its final report on new ward boundaries for the city, to be made effective September 2018. The Commission made its recommendations in consideration of the changes in distribution of the city's population as per the 2016 census. The most significant changes were the elimination of the St. Charles ward and the creation of a new Waverley West ward.Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission. 2017 December. "[http://www.winnipeg.ca/clerks/WardsBoundaries/pdfs/2017_WBC_Final_Report.pdf 2017 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission: Balancing for Future Growth]" (Final Report). City of Winnipeg.{{Cite web|last=Winnipeg|first=City of|title=The 2017 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission - City Clerk's Department - City of Winnipeg|url=https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/WardsBoundaries/default.stm|access-date=2021-06-15|website=winnipeg.ca|language=en-ca}}

The 15 wards are categorized into one of five community committees, which deal with local community issues. This includes:{{Cite web | title=Committees of Council {{!}} City of Winnipeg | url=https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/pdfs/CommunityCommitteeMembers.pdf | access-date=2024-12-15 | website=winnipeg.ca}}

• Assiniboia Community Committee
• Charleswood–Tuxedo–Whyte Ridge (Charleswood–Tuxedo before 1 March 2015){{Cite web|url=http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/docext/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=6411|title = City Clerk's eGovernment}}
• Waverley West
• St. James–Brooklands–Weston (St. James–Brooklands before 1 March 2015; St. James before 1 April 2003){{Cite web|url=http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/docext/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=1578|title = City Clerk's eGovernment}}
• East Kildonan–Transcona Community Committee
• Elmwood–East Kildonan
• North Kildonan
• Transcona
• City Centre
• Daniel McIntyre
• Fort Rouge–East Fort Garry (Fort Rouge before April 1, 2003){{Cite web|url=http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/docext/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=1579|title = City Clerk's eGovernment}}
• River Heights–Fort Garry
• Lord Selkirk–West Kildonan Community Committee
• Mynarski
• Old Kildonan
• Point Douglas
• Riel
• St. Boniface
• St. Norbert–Seine River
• St. Vital

{{Main|List of neighbourhoods in Winnipeg}}

The City of Winnipeg has been subdivided into two levels of areas, or relative segments, developed by the Community Data Program of the national Canadian Community Economic Development Network, in partnership with the federal and provincial governments and local community organizations."[http://mchp-appserv.cpe.umanitoba.ca/viewConcept.php?conceptID=1313 Concept: Neighbourhood Clusters (NC)]." Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. 2008 December 19.

Community areas are the broader, less detailed level of areas, which allow for geographical analysis and comparisons, i.e. census data, as used by Statistics Canada."[http://mchp-appserv.cpe.umanitoba.ca/viewConcept.php?conceptID=1261 Concept: Community Centre Areas (CCAs)]." Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. 2012 July 31. As of the 2016 census, Winnipeg is composed of 12 community areas.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Community Area Profiles - 2016 Census|url=https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Community%20Area/default.asp|access-date=2021-06-15|website=City of Winnipeg|language=English}} There is also a separate set of 72 community centre areas, defining the catchment areas of community centres.

Community areas are composed of the second level of areas, neighbourhood clusters (formerly "Neighbourhood Resource Networks" or NRN), which are used for planning and policy purposes by Manitoba Health and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA). As of the 2016 census, there are 23 neighbourhood clusters, composing the Winnipeg census division.{{Cite web|url=https://winnipeg.ca/census/2016/Clusters/default.asp|title = Neighbourhood Cluster Profiles - 2016 Census - Census - City of Winnipeg}}

The neighbourhood clusters are in turn subdivided into the same 230 neighbourhoods that make up the city wards of Winnipeg.{{Cite web|url=http://www.winnipeg.ca/census/2006/Clusters/|title = Neighbourhood Cluster Profiles - 2006 Census - Census - City of Winnipeg}} Many of these clusters, community areas, and neighbourhoods share names and locations with the wards; however, ward boundaries and neighbourhood boundaries do not always perfectly align with one another (For example, the St. James-Assiniboia community area extends further west but lesser east than the St. James ward).

For health planning, the WRHA also includes two relatively densely-populated rural municipalities that are located outside of Winnipeg: the RM of East St. Paul is included in River East, and West St. Paul in Seven Oaks.

The Inner City was defined for planning purposes in the 1980s by the three-government Core Area Initiative.

Within the Inner City, the Downtown Winnipeg Zoning By-Law defines an area for regulation of downtown development, significantly smaller than the Downtown community area.

The Exchange District is a National Historic Site of Canada.

{{See also|List of school districts in Manitoba}}

Winnipeg is divided into school divisions, further subdivided into wards represented by several school trustees.{{Cite web |url=http://www.winnipeg.ca/Clerks/docs/elections/2006election/E06WardMaps.stm |title=City of Winnipeg - UD : 2006 Election Candidate Ward Maps |access-date=2011-01-26 |archive-date=2011-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130052502/http://winnipeg.ca/Clerks/docs/elections/2006election/E06WardMaps.stm |url-status=dead }}

• Louis Riel School Division
• Pembina Trails School Division
• River East Transcona School Division
• Seven Oaks School Division
• St. James–Assiniboia School Division
• Winnipeg School Division

The city is contained in the Winnipeg census metropolitan area (CMA), including several other municipalities, and the smaller Winnipeg census division, which also includes the town of Headingley. The city itself is designated subdivision 11 040, further broken down into census tracts and, in turn, into dissemination areas.

Today's Winnipeg is the product of the City of Winnipeg Act of 1972, which incorporated a number of cities, towns, and rural municipalities into a single larger city (previously administered under the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, since 1960) into an amalgamated unicity. Residents still refer to these historical communities:

• Charleswood (rural municipality)
• East Kildonan (city)
• Fort Garry (R.M.)
• Headingley (R.M., seceded from Unicity in 1993)
• North Kildonan (R.M.)
• Old Kildonan (R.M.)
• St. Boniface (city)
• St. James–Assiniboia (city)
• St. Vital (city)
• Transcona (city)
• Tuxedo (town)
• West Kildonan (city)
• Winnipeg (city)

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• [http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/pdf_files/Area_Char.PDF Winnipeg Neighbourhood Area Characterization Boundaries] (map)
• [http://www.winnipeg.ca/clerks/pdfs/boundaries/2009WBCFinal%20Report2009-12-09.pdf 2009 Winnipeg Wards Boundaries Commission Final Report]

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