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Edmonton's Population

Once “Her Worshipfullness” Smith gets shown the door in 2 months….we’ll get a ton of nice presents from Notley……..
 
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The migrants in number for Alberta is even more impressive because we are ahead of three bigger provinces.

However interestingly, this time it is not so much a booming economy that is attracting people here, as in the past - our unemployment rate now is around the national average.

It is refugees from high housing costs fleeing the the GTA and the lower mainland.
 
Plan ahead or that affordable housing advantage will evaporate real quick without schools, hospitals, rec centers, etc...
 
That is an average of 2,157 people per day or 787,361 per year. I don’t think that is realistic.
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^^^^ If you're referring to the net-plus influx of immigrants from other Provinces to Alberta, then I think the number is just over 125 people per day, which in turn is just north of 45,625 people per year (extrapolated) or about 20,000 to 25,000 people or so assigned to Edmonton -- entirely realistic. Add the birth-rate over death-rate numbers to that and the number increases by about 4,000. Under current non-boom status, then, Edmonton's population could expect to grow by about 25,000 to 30,000 annually. Edmonton's current Metro population is 1,544,000 (Macrotrends data) and estimates for increase are just over 2% annually or 30,800 -- roughly concurring with the previous math. At 30,000 annually for the next 10 years compounded by 2% annually (allowing for the percentage differential), Edmonton's metro population in 2033 should top 2 million people, adding something over 400,000 population in that time period. Again, all of the numbers sourced differently are roughly confirming the math. Now if Edmonton experiences a boom (hydrogen economy for example) and the population increases by 3+% annually then lookout Calgary (4th Place) and Vancouver (3rd Place) in the metro-population categorization of Canadian Cities. Vancouver's metro population has essentially flat-lined at around 2.4 million; Calgary's Growth rate is just shy of Edmontons.
 
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^^^^ If you're referring to the net-plus influx of immigrants from other Provinces to Alberta, then I think the number is just over 125 people per day, which in turn is just north of 45,625 people per year (extrapolated) or about 20,000 to 25,000 people or so assigned to Edmonton -- entirely realistic. Add the birth-rate over death-rate numbers to that and the number increases by about 4,000. Under current non-boom status, then, Edmonton's population could expect to grow by about 25,000 to 30,000 annually. Edmonton's current Metro population is 1,544,000 (Macrotrends data) and estimates for increase are just over 2% annually or 30,800 -- roughly concurring with the previous math. At 30,000 annually for the next 10 years compounded by 2% annually (allowing for the percentage differential), Edmonton's metro population in 2033 should top 2 million people, adding something over 400,000 population in that time period. Again, all of the numbers sourced differently are roughly confirming the math. Now if Edmonton experiences a boom (hydrogen economy for example) and the population increases by 3+% annually then lookout Calgary (4th Place) and Vancouver (3rd Place) in the metro-population categorization of Canadian Cities. Vancouver's metro population has essentially flat-lined at around 2.4 million; Calgary's Growth rate is just shy of Edmontons.
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Metro Vancouver is still growing. It's actually now at 2.8 million according to most recent estimates and was at 2.6 million in the last census (which had notoriously low growth numbers for most cities). So... not flat-lined at 2.4 million, which was its 2016 Census population. Between 2016 and 2021, it grew at 7.3% and added the equivalent of Red Deer and Lethbridge combined, or more people than in PEI. By comparison, the Edmonton CMA grew also at 7.3% between 2016 and 2021.
 
Predictions for Edmonton's population on July 1, 2023?

Last year StatsCan said the population was 1,516,719 on July 1, 2022.

We know we have grown by something like 3% this year.

So I'm thinking 1,560,000

By mid 2024 we are easily above 1.6 million. Huge milestone. Closer to 2 million than to 1 million.
 
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