| Official Name: | Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie |
| Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Established Title: | Incorporated |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Land Km2: | 1961.97 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 6975 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code Type: | Area codes |
| Area Code: | 204 and 431 |
Portage la Prairie is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It surrounds the city of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba's fifth-largest city. Also within the borders of the municipality are the Dakota Plains First Nation and most of the Long Plain First Nation Indian reserves.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Portage la Prairie had a population of 6,888 living in 2,167 of its 2,456 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 6,975. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
| 2021[3] | 2016[4] | 2011[5] | 2006[6] | 2001[7] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 4,255 | 4,410 | 4,405 | 5,780 | 6,005 | ||||||
| Indigenous | 1,045 | 1,165 | 840 | 1,000 | 730 | ||||||
| African | 40 | 50 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| East Asian | 25 | 40 | 65 | 20 | 35 | ||||||
| Southeast Asian | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||
| South Asian | 20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Middle Eastern | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Latin American | 0 | 10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Other/multiracial | 0 | 10 | 35 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Total responses | 5,420 | 5,685 | 5,380 | 6,795 | 6,790 | ||||||
| Total population | 6,888 | 6,975 | 6,525 | 6,793 | 6,791 | ||||||