Populations Declines

New data is confirming what most already believe - fewer people are calling the Rainy River district home than they did five years ago.

Statistics Canada says the district population in 2009 was just under 22-thousand - a 9 per cent decline from 2008 and a net loss of about 700 people since 2003.

Other area's of northwestern Ontario also saw declines with the population in the Kenora district going down nearly 14-hundred people while the Thunder Bay district experience a decrease of 5-thousand over the past five years.