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View Poll Results: In 2021, the CMA population for Winnipeg will be:
less than 825,000 5 6.58%
825,000-849,999 16 21.05%
850,000-874,999 31 40.79%
over 875,000 24 31.58%
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what did you guys think about the post in the Canada Stats thread that Kitchener-Waterloo would reach 1M before Winnipeg?

I read that and was just like

Seems really far fetched;

Kitchener-Waterloo - (2013)502k - (2016)517k = +15k
Winnipeg - (2013)770k - (2016)811k = +41k

Not only is Winnipeg 364k bigger already, in the last 4 years we have out gained them by 26k.

Not sure how they can reach 1m before Winnipeg if they aren't even out-gaining us.
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Stats Canada is reporting today that we basically cracked over 800,000 people for the metro area, at an estimated 811,874 people come July 1st. Now up to 7th, behind the Ottawa-Gatineau area.

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It's encouraging to see Winnipeg's CMA growth rate above the national average at 6.6% from 2011-2016. Not surprising to see the Western prairie cites with the highest growth rates. I was a bit surprised to see Montreal, Halifax and Hamilton with growth rates below the national average. With its proximity to the GTA, I wonder why Hamilton isn't growing faster?

It still can't shake the feeling that it's taking forever for Winnipeg to hit the magical 800K mark. Seems like we've been in the mid 700K range for ages.
Hamilton (nicknamed Steeltown) is full of declining and obsolete industries. If it were not for the Burlington area, which many of its residents commute to the GTA, was not included in the Hamilton CMA, the area may have experienced negative growth.
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Seems really far fetched;

Kitchener-Waterloo - (2013)502k - (2016)517k = +15k
Winnipeg - (2013)770k - (2016)811k = +41k

Not only is Winnipeg 364k bigger already, in the last 4 years we have out gained them by 26k.

Not sure how they can reach 1m before Winnipeg if they aren't even out-gaining us.

I read that thread a couple of months ago. My assumption is people in Southern Ontario are delusional, or cannot point to Winnipeg on a map.
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2017, 3:26 PM
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Just for fun I compiled a list of my estimates for Winnipeg and other communities over 5,000. Please note my estimates are for the 2021 census results, not "official estimates" for that year.

Manitoba 1,350,239 (low) 1,356,929 (med.) 1,363,647 (high)
Winnipeg CMA 826,332 (low) 830,423 (med.) 834,530 (high)

CoW 744,895 (low) 748,586 (med.) 752,292 (high)
Brandon 51,351 (low) 51,861 (med.) 52,376 (high)
Steinbach 17,996 (low) 18,350 (med.) 18,709 (high)
Winkler 14,455 (low) 14,596 (med.) 14,738 (high)
Thompson 14,023 (low) 14,233 (med.) 14,447 (high)
PlaP 13,504 (low) 13,639 (med.) 13,776 (high)
Selkirk 10,695 (low) 10,802 (med.) 10,909 (high)
Morden 9,570 (low) 9,854 (med.) 10,146 (high)
Dauphin 8,627 (low) 8,670 (med.) 8,713 (high)
Niverville 5,608 (low) 5,744 (med.) 5,883 (high)
Oakbank 5,209 (low) 5,601 (med.) 6,017 (high)
Stonewall 5,180 (low) 5,309 (med.) 5,440 (high)
Neepawa 4,965 (low) 5,214 (med.) 5,474 (high)
The Pas 5,054 (low) 5,157 (med.) 5,262 (high)
Flin Flon 4,807 (low) 4,881 (med.) 4,955 (high) *included because population is currently above 5,000
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^ Population estimates are more accurate in terms of actual population

Winnipeg CMA should be somewhere around 860k by the time July 1 estimates are released for 2021 (in early 2022), if we go with the current trends. It might be slightly higher or lower depending on what the growth rate ends up being. Its going at a healthy, good clip right now.
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Yes, I know they are more accurate. I wish they were more often quoted in other sources such as Wikipedia where many people will get basic information about a city or town. Winnipeg's CMA estimate of 811,000 is significantly higher than the census result of 778,000, yet its the census result that will be used in most sources for the next five years. As for smaller communities its likely that the census result won't be much lower than its actual population.
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Just for fun I compiled a list of my estimates for Winnipeg and other communities over 5,000. Please note my estimates are for the 2021 census results, not "official estimates" for that year.

Manitoba 1,350,239 (low) 1,356,929 (med.) 1,363,647 (high)
Winnipeg CMA 826,332 (low) 830,423 (med.) 834,530 (high)

CoW 744,895 (low) 748,586 (med.) 752,292 (high)
Brandon 51,351 (low) 51,861 (med.) 52,376 (high)
Steinbach 17,996 (low) 18,350 (med.) 18,709 (high)
Winkler 14,455 (low) 14,596 (med.) 14,738 (high)
Thompson 14,023 (low) 14,233 (med.) 14,447 (high)
PlaP 13,504 (low) 13,639 (med.) 13,776 (high)
Selkirk 10,695 (low) 10,802 (med.) 10,909 (high)
Morden 9,570 (low) 9,854 (med.) 10,146 (high)
Dauphin 8,627 (low) 8,670 (med.) 8,713 (high)
Niverville 5,608 (low) 5,744 (med.) 5,883 (high)
Oakbank 5,209 (low) 5,601 (med.) 6,017 (high)
Stonewall 5,180 (low) 5,309 (med.) 5,440 (high)
Neepawa 4,965 (low) 5,214 (med.) 5,474 (high)
The Pas 5,054 (low) 5,157 (med.) 5,262 (high)
Flin Flon 4,807 (low) 4,881 (med.) 4,955 (high) *included because population is currently above 5,000
I know it's all projected estimates (and you doing it for fun anyway), but frankly, I can't see Thompson cracking 14,000 again, based on the economic outlook of that city. The nickel smelting plant and one of the mines will be closed by 2021, and there will be at least 4,000 jobs gone, possibly more.
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I know it's all projected estimates (and you doing it for fun anyway), but frankly, I can't see Thompson cracking 14,000 again, based on the economic outlook of that city. The nickel smelting plant and one of the mines will be closed by 2021, and there will be at least 4,000 jobs gone, possibly more.
I think Stantec conducted some sort of population report for Thompson a few years back, and I think their higher estimates were around the 17,000 mark by 2036. I believe these were based on upgrades to its Wastewater plant, which doesn't sound like something that could sustain growth. It seems useless trying to estimate the population projections in any northern community, sometimes they shrink dramatically between censuses and other times they post a healthy growth.

Do you think climate change will have positive (or negative) growth effects on some of these northern communities in the next few decades?
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I think Stantec conducted some sort of population report for Thompson a few years back, and I think their higher estimates were around the 17,000 mark by 2036. I believe these were based on upgrades to its Wastewater plant, which doesn't sound like something that could sustain growth. It seems useless trying to estimate the population projections in any northern community, sometimes they shrink dramatically between censuses and other times they post a healthy growth.

Do you think climate change will have positive (or negative) growth effects on some of these northern communities in the next few decades?
Very unlikely. Not unless we decide to open up our national borders and just hand over free land to everybody who can buy a plane ticket to Canada.
Otherwise, there's a reason that people are where they are. Outside of mining and logging, there's very little reason to live up there. Can't farm and there aren't enough people to make a go of pretty much any other industry anyway.
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Very unlikely. Not unless we decide to open up our national borders and just hand over free land to everybody who can buy a plane ticket to Canada.
Otherwise, there's a reason that people are where they are. Outside of mining and logging, there's very little reason to live up there. Can't farm and there aren't enough people to make a go of pretty much any other industry anyway.
I guess I was thinking of a more apocalyptic scenario where the entire prairie region succumbs to desertification. Realistically, the only place that could be threatened by this in the near future are the immediate areas surrounding the Alberta/Saskatchewan badlands.
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I guess I was thinking of a more apocalyptic scenario where the entire prairie region succumbs to desertification. Realistically, the only place that could be threatened by this in the near future are the immediate areas surrounding the Alberta/Saskatchewan badlands.
Well, people wouldn't leave to go north in that case. They'd head to the cities. There's no way to live up there unless you want to live truly as one with nature. In that case, there's only so many people that that sort of lifestyle can support.
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If you look at the data on the Stats Can website, which dates back to 1962, we've had net negative interprovincial migration every year except 82,83 and 84. As a percentage of population, the trendline (just eyeballing the data) appears to be going down (that is, this number is generally a smaller and smaller percentage of our overall population).

In other words, some people leave, but it's no big deal. We're a smaller province and can't provide the same opportunities or variety of opportunities that larger provinces can offer. These days, people tend to leave small places for larger places because of the opportunities larger places provide. This is not a Manitoba phenomenon, it is universal in the Western world. It is simply a function of living in a smaller place.
For the last 40 years our interprovincial migration patterns have largely been influenced by the economic conditions of BC and Alberta, and especially Alberta in the 21st century. Coincidentally, the years we have positive interprovincial migration (82-84), and relatively little negative migration all happen to coincide with economic downturns in Alberta.

In 2008, the Alberta economy went in the dumper. The interprovincial negaive migration out of Manitoba dropped to 2,000 in 2009 and 2010. At the end of 2014, the economic downturn in Alberta reared it's ugly head again. I would be willing to bet that the 2016 numbers will be around 2,000 again. Alberta really felt the full effects of the recession last year.

Having said that, I can see Winnipeg gaining an average of 12,500 people in the next 5 years.
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The city just released their new revised 5-year population forecast for Winnipeg this month. CMA population of 883,100 and city population of 797,900 in 2021.

http://winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf
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The city just released their new revised 5-year population forecast for Winnipeg this month. CMA population of 883,100 and city population of 797,900 in 2021.

http://winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf
Nice - Thanks for posting this

I must say it's pretty cool just looking back circa 2011 when the NHL returned to Winnipeg.

The city population now (2017) is comparable to the CMA population then.

Very solid growth curve for the Peg, heres hoping it continues
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^ It feels like we're creeping up on a million faster than I would have expected.
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I just wish the city would try to sustain the stronger we've experienced the last few years. It seems like they're anticipating a two year growth spurt of 16,000 annual growth and then back to the norm of 13,000. Why not realize, "we are growing faster than expected, let's try to sustain this growth" instead of "this growth is just a temporary."
Yes, we should be happy that the city is growing twice as fast as a decade ago, but why can't the city still try to accelerate it? It seems that there is a bit of a lack of vision, plus stronger growth could really force the city to modernize it's infrastructure in places its lacking. Like making the Perimeter a real freeway.
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The city just released their new revised 5-year population forecast for Winnipeg this month. CMA population of 883,100 and city population of 797,900 in 2021.

http://winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf
Now that is really cool, and it shouldn't be too far off come next census.

As for why the city can't seem to accelerate and embrace the growth that we have now, I feel that it's because they're not used to seeing this rate of growth in at least a generation. I wasn't around when Winnipeg was booming like crazy. All I knew growing up was that Winnipeg wasn't doing too well until the turn of the new millenium, and everything was starting to go on the up and up since.

I guess the term "we have a long way to go" may be true in most cases for our city, but I have a feeling that we are halfway there, and maybe, just maybe, we may have already came a long way.
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I wonder, should the city and CMA continue to slightly exceed growth expectations over the next ~5 years, will the city revise its projection of a population of 1 million by 2035?

Assuming the city does reach 883,100 by 2021, and growth doesn't slow down substantially after that, the CMA could reach by 1 million by 2030. In fact, annual CMA growth would have to slow to ~9,000 annually after 2021 in order for the city to reach 1 million in 2035 as projected last year.
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I just wish the city would try to sustain the stronger we've experienced the last few years. It seems like they're anticipating a two year growth spurt of 16,000 annual growth and then back to the norm of 13,000. Why not realize, "we are growing faster than expected, let's try to sustain this growth" instead of "this growth is just a temporary."
Yes, we should be happy that the city is growing twice as fast as a decade ago, but why can't the city still try to accelerate it? It seems that there is a bit of a lack of vision, plus stronger growth could really force the city to modernize it's infrastructure in places its lacking. Like making the Perimeter a real freeway.
I guess I'm confused about how the city could really accelerate growth. The best government can do in my opinion is to set good conditions for growth and hope for the best. It's like farming in that sense - the crops will grow at the rate they grow - all the farmer can do is make sure they have the best conditions possible within his control.

Having lived in declining cities that have tried the 'vision' thing with debatable results, I'm kind of skeptical about government 'vision' on growth. The role of the city IMO is to provide appropriate infrastructure at a reasonable costs to keep the city fertile for growth. We don't need 'pie in the sky' wild eyed idealists with utopian visions - I'll settle for pragmatists.

As for why the city might be hedging its bets - the predictions of population from the early 1970s era were off by a fair margin - the 1980s and 1990s hit Winnipeg like a sack of bricks. It is better to have a conservative projection of population growth and be pleasantly surprised by having expectations exceeded as opposed to optimistic growth projections and miss them.
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