Ontario is a village in the

Cayo District Cayo is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, Belmopan. It is the most extensive, second-most populous and third-most densely populated of the six districts of Belize. The district's capital is the town of S ...

of central interior

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. The village is in an agricultural region with the most frequent crops being citrus and banana. It is one of 192 municipalities administered at the village level in the country for census taking purposes.

Demographics

The village had a population of 775 in 2010. This represents roughly 1.2 % of the district's total population. This was a 25% increase from 621 people recorded in the 2000 census. In terms of ethnicity, 47.1% were

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, 40.8% Creole, 5.8% Mixed, 3.2% East Indian, 0.9%

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, 0.4% Mopan Maya, 0.4%

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, 0.3%

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, 0.3% Lebanese, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% Ketchi Maya and 0.4% others. Population & Housing Census 201

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References

Populated places in Cayo District {{Belize-geo-stub