Sultan is an unincorporated community in the
Unorganized North Part of
Sudbury District
The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District.
The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) ...
in
northeastern Ontario
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, Canada.
The local economy is based primarily on hunting and related
tourism
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. In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay of the economy. Children from Sultan attend school in
Chapleau, away.
The primary access to Sultan by car is by
Highway 667 and
Sultan Industrial Road, an unpaved logging road connecting to
Highway 144.
Via Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating ...
's
Sudbury–White River train goes through Sultan, providing an alternate transportation route to
White River and
Sudbury, although the
Sultan railway station is a flag stop and consists of only a stop sign.
Sultan was formerly administered by a
local services board A local services board (LSB) is an organization in the Canadian province of Ontario that is contracted by the Government of Ontario to provide municipal-level services in a community that is not part of an incorporated municipality.
Most local ser ...
, which was dissolved in 2008. The community, which holds the status of
designated place
A designated place (DPL) is a type of community or settlement identified by Statistics Canada that does not meet the criteria used to define municipalities or population centres. DPLs are delineated every 5 years for the Canadian census as the ...
in
Statistics Canada census data, had a reported population of 49 in the
Canada 2011 Census.
[Statistics Canada. 2012. Sultan, Ontario (Code 350033) and Ontario (Code 35) (table). Census Profile. 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-XWE. Ottawa. Released October 24, 2012. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E
(accessed April 22, 2013).]
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Sultan had a population of 45 living in 26 of its 53 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 64. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
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Communities in Sudbury District
Designated places in Ontario
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