The Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba that incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the RMs of Wallace and Woodworth and the village of Elkhorn. It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015. The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wallace-Woodworth had a population of 2,748 living in 1,036 of its 1,144 total private dwellings, a change of -6.8% from its 2016 population of 2,948. With a land area of 1,977.43 km (763.49 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.4/km (3.6/sq mi) in 2021.
