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Willowbrook, Saskatchewan

human settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ8022400 ↗
Source-derived summary

Willowbrook is a special service area in the Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244, Saskatchewan, Canada, that was incorporated as a village prior to July 31, 2008. The community is located 30 km north of the city of Melville at the intersection of Highway 47 and Highway 52.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Willowbrook had a population of 30 living in 15 of its 17 total private dwellings, a change of −18.9% from its 2016 population of 37. With a land area of 0.46 km2 (0.18 sq mi), it had a population density of 65.2/km2 (168.9/sq mi) in 2021.

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The public source identifies “Willowbrook, Saskatchewan” as human settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Willowbrook, Saskatchewan and human.

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This entry incorporates text from “Willowbrook, Saskatchewan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.