Rural Municipality of Yellowhead

The Rural Municipality of Yellowhead is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

History
The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the Municipality of Shoal Lake and the RM of Strathclair. 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

 * Elphinstone
 * Oakburn
 * Shoal Lake
 * Strathclair

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Yellowhead had a population of 1,841 living in 871 of its 1,227 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 1,948. With a land area of 1093.17 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.