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As of 4 November 2026, 22,741 construction & building engineering companies are based in Canada; 320 are hiring right now and Toronto has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 22,741
- Hiring now
- 320 · 61 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- General building contractors · 10,865
- Top city
- Toronto · 630
- Parent market
- Property & construction · 112,770
Construction & building engineering in Canada, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| General building contractors | 10,865 | 48% |
| Custom home builders | 3,469 | 15% |
| Excavation & earthmoving contractors | 2,043 | 9% |
| Civil infrastructure contractors | 1,981 | 9% |
| Concrete & formwork contractors | 1,780 | 8% |
| Multi trade renovation | 1,721 | 8% |
| Masonry contractors | 717 | 3% |
| Demolition contractors | 419 | 2% |
| Other construction & building engineering | 344 | 2% |
| Prefabricated house manufacturers | 287 | 1% |
| Timber frame house builders | 249 | 1% |
| Swimming pool builders | 248 | 1% |
| Groundworks contractors | 207 | 1% |
| Hard landscaping & paving | 204 | 1% |
| Other specialist building services contractors | 183 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2,187 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 17,332 · 85 |
| 11-50 employees | 2,420 · 88 |
| 51-200 employees | 640 · 104 |
| 201-500 employees | 125 · 27 |
| 501-1000 employees | 22 · 8 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 13 · 6 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 2 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto | 630 | 3% |
| Québec | 526 | 2% |
| Montréal | 435 | 2% |
| Calgary | 317 | 1% |
| Ottawa | 288 | 1% |
| Edmonton | 184 | 1% |
| Vancouver | 174 | 1% |
| Victoria | 165 | 1% |
| Vaughan | 160 | 1% |
| London | 148 | 1% |
| Concord | 138 | 1% |
| Laval | 136 | 1% |
The biggest construction & building engineering companies in Canada
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The stack of construction & building engineering in Canada
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22,741 construction & building engineering companies are based in Canada; 320 are hiring right now and Toronto has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/canada/construction_and_building_engineering)
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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.
Construction & building engineering in Canada: questions
How many construction & building engineering companies are there in Canada?
22,741 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Property & construction → Construction & building engineering → leaf niches such as general building contractors, custom home builders, excavation & earthmoving contractors. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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