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As of 4 November 2026, 18,559 automotive companies are based in Canada: 676 with 51+ employees, 157 hiring right now, led by vehicle repair & detailing and Québec.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies, confident classification
- 18,559
- 51+ employees
- 676 · 4%
- Hiring now
- 157 · 39 new in 30 d
- Largest segment
- Vehicle repair & detailing · 10,862
- Top city
- Québec · 554
- Running cold outbound
- 1
Automotive in Canada, by segment
Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Vehicle repair & detailing | 10,862 · 72 |
| Vehicle & parts retail | 7,840 · 85 |
| Vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing | 681 · 15 |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 4,132 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 12,544 · 60 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,207 · 33 |
| 51-200 employees | 549 · 40 |
| 201-500 employees | 69 · 13 |
| 501-1000 employees | 24 · 3 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 24 · 6 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 4 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 6 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Québec | 554 | 3% |
| Toronto | 344 | 2% |
| Montréal | 250 | 1% |
| Ottawa | 189 | 1% |
| Calgary | 187 | 1% |
| Laval | 115 | 1% |
| Mississauga (Matheson / East Rathwood) | 112 | 1% |
| Langley | 108 | 1% |
| Calgary (Bridgeland / Greenview / Zoo / YYC) | 102 | 1% |
| Edmonton (South Bonnie Doon / East University) | 94 | 1% |
| Barrie South | 89 | 0% |
| Brampton East | 85 | 0% |
The biggest automotive companies in Canada
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The stack of automotive in Canada
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18,559 automotive companies are based in Canada: 676 with 51 or more employees, 157 hiring right now (39 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by vehicle repair & detailing and Québec. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/automotive/canada)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
- StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
Automotive in Canada: questions
How many automotive companies are there in Canada?
18,559 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 676 of them have 51 or more employees.
How do you know a company belongs to automotive?
We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.
Which automotive companies in Canada are hiring?
157 have an open role on their own career site today and 39 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.
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