title: Municipality of Rhineland
text: # Municipality of Rhineland
  
  The Municipality of Rhineland is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The RM had a population of 5,945 as of the 2016 Canada Census. The average age in the municipality is 31.
  
  ## History
  
  The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the Rural Municipality of Rhineland and the towns of Gretna and Plum Coulee. It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required municipalities with a population less than 1,000 to amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015. The Government of Manitoba initiated the amalgamations for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.
  
  ## Communities
  
  * Gretna
  * Neubergthal
  * Plum Coulee
  * Rosenfeld
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rhineland had a population of 5,819 living in 1,641 of its 1,748 total private dwellings, a change of -2.1% from its 2016 population of 5,945. With a land area of 958.48 $km^2$ (370.07 sq mi), it had a population density of $6.1/km^2$ (15.7/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  