Huron East | |
Official Name: | Municipality of Huron East |
Settlement Type: | Municipality (lower-tier) |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Huron |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1830s |
Established Title2: | Formed |
Established Date2: | 2001 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Bernie MacLellan |
Leader Title1: | Deputy Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Alvin McLellan |
Leader Title2: | Federal riding |
Leader Name2: | Huron—Bruce |
Leader Title3: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name3: | Huron—Bruce |
Area Land Km2: | 669.26 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 9512 |
Population Density Km2: | 13.8 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | N0K, N0G |
Area Code: | 519 and 226 |
The Municipality of Huron East is a Canadian municipality located in Huron County, Ontario. It was formed in 2001 as an amalgamation of the former Grey, McKillop and Tuckersmith townships with the town of Seaforth and village of Brussels, due to an Ontario-wide local government restructuring imposed by the government of that time. The municipality is structured as five wards based on the former townships, town and village.
In January of 2022, then eighteen-year-old Justin Morrison became the youngest person in the history of Huron East to become a municipal councilor[2]
Besides the town of Seaforth and the village of Brussels, the municipality of Huron East comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including:
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Huron East had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 669.15km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]