Land for sale in the Winnipeg area, Manitoba

About the Winnipeg area

The area

This page groups Manitoba listings closest to Winnipeg, the provincial capital, which had about 749,600 people in 2021. The largest surrounding rural municipality is Springfield (about 16,100 in 2021), run from Oakbank. Taché (about 11,900) is run from Dufresne and includes the local urban districts of Lorette and Landmark. Macdonald (about 8,100) borders the city's southwest edge and takes in Oak Bluff, La Salle, Domain, Brunkild, Sanford, Starbuck and Osborne. Ritchot (about 7,500) has its office in St. Adolphe. East St. Paul (about 9,700), West St. Paul (about 6,700), Headingley (about 4,300), Cartier (about 3,300, run from Elie) and Rosser (about 1,300) complete the ring.

History

The City of Winnipeg recognizes Treaty 1 territory, the lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininew and Dakota peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. The Forks, where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, was a gathering place for thousands of years before Scottish farm families of the Red River Settlement began arriving in 1812. Winnipeg became a city in 1873, grew quickly once the Canadian Pacific Railway reached it in 1886, and merged with its neighbouring municipalities in 1972.

Services and access

Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg runs the province's busiest emergency department. The Perimeter Highway (PTH 100 to the south, PTH 101 to the north) rings the city and carries Trans-Canada Highway 1 traffic around it. Macdonald is reached by PTH 2 and 3 and PR 330. Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, one of the 26 airports in the National Airports System, handles scheduled flights and is a cargo hub for central and northern Canada.

Land and climate

In Macdonald, the La Salle River, a Red River tributary, has riverside properties. The Red River Valley Designated Flood Area runs from the US border north to the Red River Floodway works, with its east and west edges set by the 1997 flood. The Lower Red River Designated Flood Area runs from the city's north boundary to where Netley Creek joins the Red.

Before you buy

Macdonald and Ritchot form the Macdonald-Ritchot Planning District; Ritchot's planning office in St. Adolphe issues its building permits under its own zoning by-law. East and West St. Paul belong to the Red River Planning District, which enforces their zoning and issues building permits. Cartier and St. François Xavier form the White Horse Plains Planning District, which sets their joint development plan and decides zoning amendments, variances and conditional uses. Springfield and Taché run their own planning departments, which issue building and development permits. Any new permanent structure in a designated flood area needs a provincial permit that sets its flood protection level, based on at least a 200-year flood; Ritchot sends applicants to the province for those elevations.

Sources

• Statistics Canada, 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (table 98-10-0002)
• City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg's history
• RM of Macdonald, geography
• Municipality of Ritchot, building permits
• RM of Springfield, planning department
• RM of Taché, planning
• RM of Cartier, White Horse Plains Planning District
• Red River Planning District, about
• Province of Manitoba, Designated Flood Areas
• Province of Manitoba, PTH 101 functional design study summary
• Province of Manitoba, new beds at Health Sciences Centre (2024)
• Government of Canada, Winnipeg airport cargo investment

Written by AcreScout from the sources listed; facts checked October 1, 2026. Rules change: confirm anything that matters with the municipality.