Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa

The Municipality of Oakland – Wawanesa is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

History
The RM was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of Oakland and the Village of Wawanesa. 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.

Communities

 * Nesbitt
 * Wawanesa

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Oakland-Wawanesa had a population of 1,758 living in 625 of its 670 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 1,690. With a land area of 578.82 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.