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This is a list of francophone communities in Ontario. Municipalities with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Ontario are listed.

The provincial average of Ontarians whose mother tongue is French is 3.3%, with a total of 463,120 people in Ontario who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021. The majority of Franco-Ontarians in Ontario live in eastern and northeastern Ontario. While most communities in these areas have sizeable French minorities, several municipalities have francophone majorities.

Most such places are designated as French language service areas under the provincial French Language Services Act, meaning that Government of Ontario services must be available in French.

Municipality	Type	County, district, or regional municipality	Total population^[1]	Percentage of population whose mother tongue is French^[1]
Alfred and Plantagenet	Township	Prescott and Russell	9,949	71%
Armstrong	Township	Timiskaming	1,199	52%
Beckwith	Township	Lanark	9,021	5%
Black River-Matheson	Township	Cochrane	2,572	23%
Blind River	Town	Algoma	3,422	14%
Bonfield	Township	Nipissing	2,146	20%
Callander	Municipality	Parry Sound	3,964	9%
Carleton Place	Town	Lanark	12,517	5%
Casselman	Village	Prescott and Russell	3,960	71%
Central Manitoulin	Municipality	Manitoulin	2,235	4%
Champlain	Township	Prescott and Russell	8,665	59%
Clarence-Rockland	City	Prescott and Russell	26,505	57%
Chapleau	Township	Sudbury	1,942	33%
Chisholm	Township	Nipissing	1,312	10%
Cochrane	Town	Cochrane	5,390	33%
Cornwall	City	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	47,845	19%
Deep River	Town	Renfrew	4,175	5%
East Ferris	Municipality	Nipissing	4,946	19%
East Hawkesbury	Township	Prescott and Russell	3,418	58%
Elliot Lake	City	Algoma	11,372	12%
Englehart	Town	Timiskaming	1,442	7%
Espanola	Town	Sudbury	5,185	12%
French River	Municipality	Sudbury	2,828	39%
Greater Sudbury	City	Single-tier municipality	166,004	23%
Greenstone	Municipality	Thunder Bay	4,309	21%
Hawkesbury	Town	Prescott and Russell	10,194	72%
Hearst	Town	Cochrane	4,794	84%
Huron Shores	Municipality	Algoma	1,860	5%
Ignace	Township	Kenora	1,206	7%
Iroquois Falls	Town	Cochrane	4,418	33%
Kapuskasing	Town	Cochrane	8,057	63%
Kirkland Lake	Town	Timiskaming	7,750	12%
Lakeshore	Town	Essex	40,410	5%
Laurentian Hills	Town	Renfrew	2,885	6%
Laurentian Valley	Township	Renfrew	9,450	5%
Manitouwadge	Township	Thunder Bay	1,974	12%
Marathon	Town	Thunder Bay	3,138	9%
Markstay-Warren	Municipality	Sudbury	2,708	30%
Mattawa	Town	Nipissing	1,881	25%
Merrickville–Wolford	Village	Leeds and Grenville	3,135	6%
Moonbeam	Township	Cochrane	1,157	71%
Nipissing	Indian reserve	Nipissing	1,640	14%
North Bay	City	Nipissing	52,662	11%
North Dundas	Township	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	11,304	8%
North Glengarry	Township	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	10,144	35%
North Grenville	Municipality	Leeds and Grenville	17,964	6%
North Stormont	Township	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	7,400	26%
Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands	Town	Manitoulin	2,641	5%
Ottawa	City	Single-tier municipality	1,017,449	13%
Pembroke	City	Renfrew	14,364	6%
Penetanguishene	Town	Simcoe	10,077	8%
Petawawa	Town	Renfrew	18,160	10%
Russell	Township	Prescott and Russell	19,598	38%
Sables-Spanish Rivers	Township	Sudbury	3,237	9%
St. Charles	Municipality	Sudbury	1,357	41%
Smooth Rock Falls	Town	Cochrane	1,200	58%
South Glengarry	Township	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	13,330	25%
South Stormont	Township	Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	13,570	14%
Temiskaming Shores	City	Timiskaming	9,634	28%
Terrace Bay	Township	Thunder Bay	1,528	4%
The Nation	Municipality	Prescott and Russell	13,350	63%
Timmins	City	Cochrane	41,145	33%
Tiny	Township	Simcoe	12,966	7%
Wawa	Municipality	Algoma	2,705	17%
Welland	City	Niagara	55,750	7%
West Nipissing	Municipality	Nipissing	14,583	56%

A number of small municipalities also have high francophone populations. These include the francophone-majority municipalities of Dubreuilville (79%), Fauquier-Strickland (68%), Mattice-Val Côté (82%), Opasatika (63%), and Val Rita-Harty (71%).

Small francophone-minority municipalities include Baldwin (11%), Billings (10%), Brethour (10%), Calvin (10%), Casey (42%), Chamberlain (6%), Chapleau Cree Fox Lake (8%), Charlton and Dack (5%), Cobalt (13%), Coleman (25%), Dokis (10%), Dorion (5%), Evanturel (9%), Gauthier (17%), Harley (28%), Harris (30%), Head, Clara and Maria (6%), Hornepayne (10%), Hilliard (21%), Hudson (18%), James (19%), Jocelyn (7%), Kerns (11%), Larder Lake (19%), Latchford (11%), Matachewan (17%), Matachewan (15%), Mattagami (5%), Mattawan (26%), McGarry (38%), Nairn and Hyman (9%), Temagami (13%), The North Shore (15%), Papineau-Cameron (22%), Spanish (18%), Thornloe (28%), and White River (13%).