The RM was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of South Cypress and the Village of Glenboro.[1] 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, Glenboro-South Cypress had a population of 1,123 living in 440 of its 484 total private dwellings, a change of -27.5% from its 2016 population of 1,550. With a land area of 1,071.64 km2 (413.76 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.0/km2 (2.7/sq mi) in 2021.[2]
