Manufacturing sales, by industry for 15 Selected Census Metropolitan Areas — AI AnalysisCanadian manufacturing sales across 15 Census Metropolitan Areas nearly doubled over 17 years, rising 91.4% from $19.3 billion in January 2009 to $37.0 billion in January 2026, peaking at $46.0 billion in March 2023. The dataset — spanning 181,722 records across 31 NAICS industries — reveals a highlKey Findings

Total manufacturing sales across 15 CMAs grew 91.4% from $19.3 billion (January 2009) to $37.0 billion (January 2026), with an all-time peak of $46.0 billion recorded in March 2023.

The distribution is strongly right-skewed: the mean sales value of $326,605K is nearly 8x the median of $41,518K, with 75% of all records falling below $204,965K.

Windsor, Ontario recorded the dataset's single most extreme outlier — April 2020 manufacturing sales of $353 million (z=-3.65) — driven by COVID-19 auto plant shutdowns, contributing to an industry-wide 11% sales decline in 2020 versus 2019.

Québec City posted unusually high sales in June 2022, reaching $2.51 billion (z=3.09), one of four CMAs — alongside Regina, Winnipeg, and Ottawa-Gatineau — that recorded significant positive outliers between 2022 and 2025.

Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing [3365] is the most volatile industry in the dataset, with a coefficient of variation of 3.75 — far exceeding all other NAICS sectors analyzed.

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