[Big Sky]

I don't see a thread for this anywhere so far.

Does anyone when this year's numbers are being released? Aren't they usually out around mid June? Any guesses on the count?

[Deepstar]

Last year they came in around the end of June, beginning of July.

[freeweed]

1.5 million. We've been hiding a lot of people lately.

[mooky]

That must be with the homeless population. They heard about the plan to end homelessness and all moved here from across Canada looking for a home. :cool:

In all seriousness, we have to be getting close to 1.1 million I'd expect for this census.

1.5 million. We've been hiding a lot of people lately.

[Stephen Ave]

I've heard estimates of this years growth to be around 25-30k, so we should come in around 1,075ish for the city proper.

[wild wild west]

I've heard estimates of this years growth to be around 25-30k, so we should come in around 1,075ish for the city proper.


Yes, even though the economy is in the crapper right now, the demographics people are saying that net migration will be quite strong this year due to the fact that the job market in most other parts of Canada is even worse. That said, I'm going to be on the conservative side and go with 22,000.

[Calalb]

Last year's census was released July 21 so we will probably be hearing something some time this week? I'll guess around 1,070,000.

[Bigtime]

From CHQR's website:

Calgary continues to grow at a steady pace, according to the 2009 Civic Census.

The population grew by another 22,563, bringing the total number of people living in the city to 1,065,455.

Ten communities had population increases of more than one thousand between April 2008 and April 2009 - Auburn Bay, Bridlewood, Cranston, Evergreen, New Brighton, Panorama Hills, Saddleridge, Silverado, Taradale and Tuscany.

The increase is similar to the pace of growth from April 2007 to April 2008.
The census also shows Calgary's overall vacancy rate is more than 3 per cent, up from 2.2 per cent in April last year.

[sync]

looks like the burbs are expanding.

[Wooster]

Calgary's population rises to 1.06 million

By Chuck Chiang, Calgary HeraldJuly 22, 2009
Photograph by: Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald

CALGARY - Calgary's population grew to 1,065,455 as of April 2009 - an increase of 22,563 from April 2008, according to the latest Civic Census results released this morning.

That growth rate comes out to about two per cent - roughly the same figure as the last census, where the city's population grew by 22,950.

The report indicates that population in-migration into Calgary is steadying, with a net gain of 12,920. That's up 479 from the figure last year but well off the high of 25,557 that was reported three years ago. Prior to this year's gains, in-migration had fallen by 5,000 and 8,000 the previous two years.

Meanwhile, natural increase (difference between births and deaths) held steady as well, with this year's 9,643 figure echoing last year's 9,695.

According to the report, two communities - Sage Hill and Silverado - had growth rates higher than 100 per cent during that time. Sage Hill grew by 242.3 per cent, by far the biggest jump amongst Calgary neighbourhoods, while Silverado gained 100.3 per cent. Both are relatively new developments.

Ten communities grew by more than 1,000 people, a list that is again dominated by newer communities. Panorama Hills in the northwest led the list with a gain of 2,156, with Tuscany as the only other northwest neighbourhood on the list. Six of the communities with a net gain of more than 1,000 - including Auburn Bay, Cranston, Evergreen and New Brighton - were in the southern part of the city.

© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Calgary+grows+million/1816445/story.html

Pretty steady growth, especially considering what has happened in the past 12 months or so.

[Spring2008]

~23,000 growth this year is pretty good. Calgary's been consistently growing at over 20,000/year recently which seems to be a good sign.

I never seen the Metro stats yet, have to be getting really close to 1,200,000, which means Calgary may overtake Ottawa-gatineau to become the 4th largest metro in Canada.

[Deepstar]

Wasn't the natural increase around 11k for a while 2004-2007ish? I wonder if the decrease has anything to do with an economic downturn.

Good numbers considering all the stories of how bad things are.

Calgary's population rises to 1.06 million

By Chuck Chiang, Calgary HeraldJuly 22, 2009
Photograph by: Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald

CALGARY - Calgary's population grew to 1,065,455 as of April 2009 - an increase of 22,563 from April 2008, according to the latest Civic Census results released this morning.

That growth rate comes out to about two per cent - roughly the same figure as the last census, where the city's population grew by 22,950.

The report indicates that population in-migration into Calgary is steadying, with a net gain of 12,920. That's up 479 from the figure last year but well off the high of 25,557 that was reported three years ago. Prior to this year's gains, in-migration had fallen by 5,000 and 8,000 the previous two years.

Meanwhile, natural increase (difference between births and deaths) held steady as well, with this year's 9,643 figure echoing last year's 9,695.

According to the report, two communities - Sage Hill and Silverado - had growth rates higher than 100 per cent during that time. Sage Hill grew by 242.3 per cent, by far the biggest jump amongst Calgary neighbourhoods, while Silverado gained 100.3 per cent. Both are relatively new developments.

Ten communities grew by more than 1,000 people, a list that is again dominated by newer communities. Panorama Hills in the northwest led the list with a gain of 2,156, with Tuscany as the only other northwest neighbourhood on the list. Six of the communities with a net gain of more than 1,000 - including Auburn Bay, Cranston, Evergreen and New Brighton - were in the southern part of the city.

© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Calgary+grows+million/1816445/story.html

Pretty steady growth, especially considering what has happened in the past 12 months or so.

[Deepstar]

~23,000 growth this year is pretty good. Calgary's been consistently growing at over 20,000/year recently which seems to be a good sign.

I never seen the Metro stats yet, have to be getting really close to 1,200,000, which means Calgary may overtake Ottawa-gatineau to become the 4th largest metro in Canada.

We probably already have. I saw somewhere, where the estimate for Calgary was over 1.2M. IIRC, we were only about 20k behind Ottawa. Don't forget, these numbers are from April.

It won't matter anyway, once Foothills MD (65k) is added, Calgary will be well ahead of Ottawa-Gatineau.

[Cowtown_Tim]

This is from the Canada section. showing Statscan estimates for 2008. Maybe there are estimates for 2009, not sure, but going by this, Calgary could well be the fourth largest metro as we speak.

With the exception of BC CMA 2008 values, here's the update for 2006 through 2008, all with 2006 Census boundaries. (BC numbers should be available shortly.)

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg196/spillphoto/CMAs2006-20082006Censusboundaries.jpg

[lubicon]

]~23,000 growth this year is pretty good[/B]. Calgary's been consistently growing at over 20,000/year recently which seems to be a good sign.

I never seen the Metro stats yet, have to be getting really close to 1,200,000, which means Calgary may overtake Ottawa-gatineau to become the 4th largest metro in Canada.

It's very good. That's a growth rate of 2.2% which is higher than the (I think) historical average of 1.8%.

As the population grows, the absolute numbers should grow larger every year even if the growth rate remains constant.

[Wooster]

http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cityclerks/popcomparisonbycomm.pdf

Neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

I'm always interested to see how the Beltline grew. This year by 523. A moderate year with a few projects reaching occupancy in the past 12 months. Next year will see Nuera, Keynote, Colours, Union Square a few others finish. It would be nice to see at least 1000 a year (like 2006-2007) so that the population would double in the next 20 years.

Hillhurst amazingly grew by 741 or almost 14% - what could explain that???

Overall Centre City (Beltline, East Village, Chinatown, Eau Claire, West End, Commercial Core)
2008: 33574
2009: 33799

A paltry 225 person growth in one year. Time to step it up. Calgary needs at least 80,000 people to get the core we want.

[Spring2008]

Wtf I was checking Wikipedia for Calgary's population in 2009, it showed up finally today at around 1,065,000 for the city proper. Now I think some troll went and adjusted the population all the way back to the 2006 numbers.

Anybody know how to edit the items in the boxes for cities, like population, density, land area etc to get them back to 2009 levels????

[Spring2008]

http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/cityclerks/popcomparisonbycomm.pdf

Overall Centre City (Beltline, East Village, Chinatown, Eau Claire, West End, Commercial Core)
2008: 33574
2009: 33799

A paltry 225 person growth in one year. Time to step it up. Calgary needs at least 80,000 people to get the core we want.


Yeah that's really not much, hopefully by next year the population increases will start to become more noticeable????

[Spring2008]

nm I fixed the wikipedia stats, I feel pretty damn smart now:cool:

[freeweed]

So what happened to all those stories over the past 12 months about people fleeing Calgary in droves because it's "too expensive" and there are "no good jobs"?

10,000 new people. In an oil slump. In a recession. Colour me impressed.

22,000 people is what, 7,000 new housing units roughly? (Don't know Calgary's density in that sense, 3 sounds about right). So 5,000 new houses and 2,000 new condo/townhouse units or so every year? That's a frigton of growth. :tup: