About Durham
This riding at the eastern edge of the Greater Toronto Area takes in Uxbridge and Scugog townships and the regional municipality of Clarington. The riding includes the communities of Uxbridge, Port Perry, Orono, Bowmanville and Courtice.
The Indian reserve of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island is part of the riding, which extends from Lake Ontario in the south to Lake Scugog in the north, north of the ridings of Ajax-Pickering and Whitby-Oshawa.
Manufacturing is the major employer, with a small portion of the labour force engaged in the production of dairy products and the farming of soybeans and corn.
The average household income is $78,234 and the unemployment rate is 4.9 per cent.
Clarington-Scugog-Uxbridge riding was created in 2004 from 84 per cent of Durham riding and 16 per cent of Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge riding. Part of the city of Oshawa moved into the Whitby-Oshawa riding and the western boundary moved west to the York-Durham line. The riding of Durham was established in 1903 and in 1966 merged with parts of Oshawa and Ontario ridings to become Durham-Northumberland. It became Durham again in 1986.
Population: 107,435