| Yellowhead | |
| Official Name: | Rural Municipality of Yellowhead |
| Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
| Coordinates: | 50.4847°N -100.4828°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Established Title: | Incorporated (amalgamated) |
| Established Date: | January 1, 2015 |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1841 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
The Rural Municipality of Yellowhead is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
See also: Municipality of Shoal Lake and Rural Municipality of Strathclair. The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the Municipality of Shoal Lake and the RM of Strathclair.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
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 from its 2016 population of 1,948. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]