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Edmonton's Population

occidentalcapital said:
Wow results today very interesting: Ottawa CMA is bigger than Calgary! Ottawa has overtaken both Calgary and Edmonton in this round of results.

Edmonton's core/downtown population stagnant at 55k for 4 years but still bigger than Calgary or Ottawa.

City of Edmonton itself breaches the 1 million mark with population of 1,010,899.

Edmonton CMA at 1, 418,118 (July 1, 2021). Growing 7.3% between censuses which was noted to be faster than Calgary (6.4%). Matches Vancouver's growth rate of 7.3%. Also exceeds Winnipeg (6.6%), Toronto (4.6%), Montreal (4.6%) but exceeded by Ottawa (8.5%), Halifax (9.1%).

Surprise winner is Ottawa on multiple categories.

Edmonton has performed very well overall.

In Alberta, Edmonton is the second-fastest growing CMA, first place is Canmore which grew at 14.3% (from 13,992 to 15,990). Edmonton's growth rate exceeded all other Alberta communities. Edmonton grew faster than Calgary (6.4%), Red Deer (0.4%), Wood Buffalo (0.7%), Grande Prairie (1.5%), Lethbridge (5.5%), Medicine Hat (-0.2%) and all others.
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It's refreshing to see our CMA growing at nearly a full percentage point more than Calgary.

When we look at Census Subdivisions (municipal level), the difference is even larger. The City of Edmonton has grown 8.3% whereas the City of Calgary has only grown 5.5%.
 
occidentalcapital said:
Wow results today very interesting: Ottawa CMA is bigger than Calgary! Ottawa has overtaken both Calgary and Edmonton in this round of results.
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The Ottawa CMA increased quite a bit more proportionally to the Edmonton and Calgary CMAs since the towns of Arnprior and Carleton Place were added to the Ottawa CMA for the 2021 Census (total additional population of ~.22,000).
 
I'm curious to know the total land area comparison of that downtown Edmonton map used by Stats Canada in comparison to some of the other downtown's.
I agree, it seems that data is skewed and less relevant.
 
occidentalcapital said:
Don't focus too much on the downtown figure, Stats Canada uses a really wide map for Edmonton's Downtown that likely skews things: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91f0015m/2021001/m-c/m-c-edmonton-eng.pdf

This is a really positive result for the City in terms of growth.

The miracle on the North Saskatchewan !
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Very neat to see the map they use. That is a huge area and certainly reflects on a lot more than our downtown as we would usually picture it in usual discussions.
 
Looks like the City of Edmonton boundary still doesn't include the new annexation lands south of 41 Avenue SW:

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I found this interesting tool. If you zoom in on Edmonton (or any other municipality), you can see the population, dwelling count, and population density for each subdivision within Edmonton. You can also change the year (2006, 2011, 2016, 2021) to give you an accurate picture of how a given area has changed over time!
 
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