Calgary census results 1,019,942

[ssiguy]

The Beltline doesn't include areas like Eau Claire, Chinatown, the new WestEnd does it? What about their pop growth?

[mersar]

Chinatown 1,308 1,361 -53 -3.89 %
Eau Claire 1,645 1,717 -72 -4.19 %
Downtown West End 2,635 2,681 -46 -1.72 %

[Kilgore Trout]

Originally Posted by Beltliner

Chestermere itself is expanding westward to become an official Edge City

Minor quibble: an edge city is a suburb that becomes a major centre of commerce and industry in addition to having a large residential population. Calgary doesn't even have any major office districts outside of the downtown area so there's nothing that even remotely resembles an edge city. Chestermere is just an ordinary suburb.

A good Canadian example of a true edge city would be Richmond, BC. It is at once a residential suburb, Vancouver's second-largest centre of employment, a major transportation hub and a retail mecca.

[Bad Grizzly]

Originally Posted by mersar

Chinatown 1,308 1,361 -53 -3.89 %
Eau Claire 1,645 1,717 -72 -4.19 %
Downtown West End 2,635 2,681 -46 -1.72 %

It's strange that the downtown west end would population. Tarjan pointe just opened last year, wasn't it a couple of hundred units?

[mersar]

I'm thinking there may be some boundary shifting to account for, which may explain why the Symons Valley area lost 96% of its population (over 2500 people). And why there are 4 or 5 other areas that lost their entire populations (usually only a couple dozen people at most per area though).