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Originally Posted by Drybrain
Is that what data shows, though? The fastest urban growth rates in the US are in places like Provo, Utah and Jacksonville, FlorIda and Raleigh, NC. New York and LA and Chicago are barely growing. In Europe, cities like Manchester and Brussels are the big gainers over your Londons and Berlins (not in raw numbers but by growth rate). Canada is really an outlier in that our big cities are also big growers, though even here, we see some smaller places outperforming.
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Here are the estimated 2015-2016
growth rates by CMA, sorted from fastest to slowest. The first number is the percentage change year-over-year and the last one is the population in thousands.
If the biggest cities were growing fastest, we'd expect this order to be the same as the order from biggest to smallest city (i.e. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver ...). But instead the top 5 spots are taken up by smaller Prairie cities.
3.17 Saskatoon (Sask.) 290.7
2.61 Regina (Sask.) 230.9
2.49 Calgary (Alta.) 1353.9
2.46 Edmonton (Alta.) 1282.2
2.16 Winnipeg (Man.) 770.5
1.96 Halifax (N.S.) 410.3
1.93 Toronto (Ont.) 5967.2
1.65 Vancouver (B.C.) 2444.3
1.63 Guelph (Ont.) 149.8
1.60 Ottawa-Gatineau (Ont.-Que.) 1303.1
1.59 Kelowna (B.C.) 188.0
1.49 St. John's (N.L.) 208.8
1.42 Moncton (N.B.) 144.6
1.41 Abbotsford-Mission (B.C.) 178.5
1.39 Oshawa (Ont.) 379.0
1.27 Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo (Ont.) 502.5
1.26 London (Ont.) 498.1
1.23 Barrie (Ont.) 198.1
1.20 Victoria (B.C.) 358.3
1.18 Kingston (Ont.) 167.0
1.16 Windsor (Ont.) 332.6
1.09 Montreal (Que.) 3980.8
1.08 Sherbrooke (Que.) 209.6
1.06 Hamilton (Ont.) 758.0
1.04 Brantford (Ont.) 141.9
0.74 Quebec (Que.) 790.5
0.73 St. Catharines-Niagara (Ont.) 405.2
0.64 Trois-Rivieres (Que.) 155.2
0.57 Peterborough (Ont.) 123.2
0.39 Saint John (N.B.) 127.8
0.0 Greater Sudbury (Ont.) 166.0
-0.18 Saguenay (Que.) 160.4
-0.24 Thunder Bay (Ont.) 125.2