Market map · Canada

Public, community & associations in Canada_

As of 4 November 2026, 45,983 public, community & associations companies are based in Canada: 2,553 with 51+ employees, 762 hiring right now, led by nonprofit civic associations and Québec.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
45,983
51+ employees
2,553 · 6%
Hiring now
762 · 368 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Nonprofit civic associations · 15,537
Top city
Québec · 1,401
Running cold outbound
4
45,983public, community & associations companies in Canada
2,553with 51+ employees
762hiring on their own career site today
368opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Public, community & associations in Canada, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Nonprofit civic associations
15,537 · 182
Charitable foundations
10,959 · 208
Churches congregations
8,255 · 43
Membership associations & unions
7,287 · 177
Amateur sports clubs
5,969 · 19
Public programmes & agencies
3,621 · 258
Research institutes & think tanks
3,110 · 26
Municipal government
812 · 13
Justice & public safety
216 · 3
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
17,593 · 8
2-10 employees
19,533 · 172
11-50 employees
6,304 · 178
51-200 employees
1,685 · 194
201-500 employees
492 · 109
501-1000 employees
184 · 48
1001-5000 employees
145 · 44
5001-10000 employees
20 · 6
10,001+ employees
27 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Québec
1,4013%
Toronto
1,1172%
Montréal
9642%
Ottawa
4111%
Victoria
3201%
Calgary
2331%
Ottawa (Lower Town / Sandy Hill / University of Ottawa)
1880%
Ottawa (Parliament Hill)
1750%
Downtown Toronto (University of Toronto / Harbord)
1690%
Vancouver
1690%
Downtown Toronto (Central Bay Street)
1590%
Calgary (Kensington / Westmont / Parkdale / University)
1390%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest public, community & associations companies in Canada

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

The Salvation ArmyInternational relief charities · Halifax South10,001+ employeesThe City of CalgaryMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Calgary (City Centre / Calgary Tower)10,001+ employeesCity of HamiltonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Bay5001-10000 employeesRegistered Veterinary Technologists and Technicians of Canada (RVTTC)Professional bodies · Saskatoon North Central5001-10000 employeesYMCA of Greater TorontoYouth welfare organisations · Central Toronto (Davisville North)5001-10000 employeesCanadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)Healthcare professional societies · Downtown Toronto (Kensington Market / Chinatown / Grange Park)5001-10000 employeesCity of MississaugaMunicipal authorities & general public bodies1001-5000 employeesTownship of LangleyMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Langley1001-5000 employeesCity of GuelphMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Guelph Northwest1001-5000 employeesRegional Municipality of Wood BuffaloMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Fort McMurray Outer Central1001-5000 employeesCity of KitchenerMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Kitchener Central1001-5000 employeesCity of OshawaMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Oshawa Southeast1001-5000 employeesCity of St. John'sMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · St. John's North Central1001-5000 employeesCity of SaskatoonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Saskatoon1001-5000 employeesStrathcona CountyMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Sherwood Park West1001-5000 employeesHalifax Regional MunicipalityMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Halifax Central1001-5000 employeesVille de Trois-RivièresMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Trois-Rivières East1001-5000 employeesCounty of LambtonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Wyoming1001-5000 employeesCity of BramptonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Brampton South1001-5000 employeesCity of Kawartha LakesMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Lindsay1001-5000 employees
45,983 public, community & associations companies in Canada; 762 of them hiring.

Filter by segment, size, city, technology or hiring, and open the decision makers with verified e-mails. Or get every company that starts hiring in this market, weekly.

Free plan: 1,000 records, no card. The first 20 are above; e-mails are verified at the mail server when you open them.

04 — What they run

The stack of public, community & associations in Canada

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

Cite this

Quote the sentence with the date and the link. The numbers change daily; the link always shows the current ones.

45,983 public, community & associations companies are based in Canada: 2,553 with 51 or more employees, 762 hiring right now (368 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by nonprofit civic associations and Québec. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/canada)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • 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.
FAQ

Public, community & associations in Canada: questions

How many public, community & associations companies are there in Canada?

45,983 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 2,553 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to public, community & associations?

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 public, community & associations companies in Canada are hiring?

762 have an open role on their own career site today and 368 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

Can I get this market as a list?

Yes: filter on public, community & associations and Canada, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

Companies and people

Get this market your way

The same data as a search, over MCP and the API, as bulk files, or pushed to you as it changes.

Every public, community & associations company in Canada,
with the person who decides

Filter on public, community & associations and Canada, and get 1,000 records free.

  1. 01Sign up, no card
  2. 02Connect Claude, ChatGPT or an API key
  3. 03Ask for your market, 1,000 records free