Census Division No. 9 (Portage la Prairie) is a census division located within the Central Plains Region of the province of Manitoba, Canada. Unlike in some other provinces, census divisions do not reflect the organization of local government in Manitoba. These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 9 had a population of 24,339 living in 9,260 of its 10,119 total private dwellings, a change of -0.2% from its 2016 population of 24,391. With a land area of 3,009.17 km2 (1,161.85 sq mi), it had a population density of 8.1/km2 (20.9/sq mi) in 2021.[2]