City of Oshawa Community Profile
The City of Oshawa is located 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto and is the largest municipality within Durham Region (by population). With historic roots in manufacturing, Oshawa’s economy has rapidly diversified into a hub for healthcare and education. As a dynamic urban city, Oshawa is host to 30,000 students at campuses across Ontario Tech University, Durham College, Trent University Durham GTA, and the Queen’s University Lakeridge Health MD Family Medicine Program. Oshawa offers 1.2 million workers within a 45-minute commute and is the location of Northwood Business Park—a new 500 acre parcel of employment land with rapid development approval timelines. The city offers world-class research assets, an executive airport, deep sea port, rail spur access and two new GO Train stations underway to accommodate the growth of $1.5 billion in record-breaking building permits for 2022 and 2023.
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Largest Industries Driving Employment
Priority Clusters for Development:
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Nuclear Energy Generation
- Health and Biosciences
- Information Technology
- Multimodal Transportation
Emerging Growth Sectors for Development:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- eSports
- Electric Vehicle and Automotive Technologies
Major Employers:
- Aosom Canada Inc.
- Canada Revenue Agency
- Cleeve Technology
- Concentrix
- Durham College
- EHC Global
- General Motors
- GEODIS
- Lactalis Canada Inc.
- Lakeridge Health Oshawa
- Mackie Moving Systems
- Martin Brower
- Ministry of Finance
- Ontario Tech University
- Ontario Power Generation
- Trent University Durham GTA
Transportation:
- Port of Oshawa (HOPA)
- Oshawa Executive Airport
- CN/CP Rail
- GO Transit
- Highway 401
- Highway 407
- Durham Region Transit
- VIA Rail
Recent or Upcoming Investments of Note:
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG) establishes new corporate headquarters in the City of Oshawa—consolidating corporate offices from across Ontario to their new centre of operations at 1908 Colonel Sam Drive in Oshawa—bringing more than 2,000 highly skilled corporate staff
- The new Lakeshore East GO Train extension will bring two new station stops to Oshawa with an estimated economic value of $1.1 billion in transit-oriented, walkable urban development, and is estimated to generate 21,000 permanent new jobs
- Lactalis Canada Inc. selects City of Oshawa for their largest global distribution facility with new distribution centre in Oshawa’s Northwood Business Park
- Martin Brower selects City of Oshawa for newest distribution facility in Northwood Business Park, joining 70 global hubs in 18 countries handling logistics and supply chain operations for 25,000 McDonald’s restaurants
