Calgary now Canada's fourth largest metropolitan area

[mersar]

Originally Posted by SubwayRev

Something I found interesting looking at these numbers was with High River and Black Diamond. According to this site, almost twice as many people commute from Calgary to High River and Black Diamond as go the other way.

Calgary - High River - 1,500
Calgary - Black Diamond - 475

High River - Calgary - 890
Black Diamond - Calgary - 210

High River I can see, theres a huge employment node at the Cargill plant there (2000+ employees) and a lot of the employees live in Calgary from what I've heard.

[MrBigStuff]

With all the smaller centers around Calgary, I haven't seen Chestermere mentioned in this thread. I went through there a few months ago on the way to Strathmore, and it's population is more than Strathmore's. It comes in at over 12,000. Any more recent data on this???

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by MrBigStuff

With all the smaller centers around Calgary, I haven't seen Chestermere mentioned in this thread. I went through there a few months ago on the way to Strathmore, and it's population is more than Strathmores. It comes in at over 12,000. Any more recent data on this???

check altapop. Chestermere is now around 15,000.

Airdrie is now just a hair under 40,000.

http://www.altapop.ca/

[MrBigStuff]

Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

check altapop. Chestermere is now around 15,000.

Airdrie is now just a hair under 40,000.

http://www.altapop.ca/

I had a look in there - but could not locate info on the population for Cochrane, AB. Was it in this year's census count??

[Jay in Cowtown]

Originally Posted by MrBigStuff

I had a look in there - but could not locate info on the population for Cochrane, AB. Was it in this year's census count??

25 000 through word of mouth, but that is probably way off.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by MrBigStuff

I had a look in there - but could not locate info on the population for Cochrane, AB. Was it in this year's census count??

Not every city does a civic census every year.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by Jay in Cowtown

25 000 through word of mouth, but that is probably way off.

No more than 18000 is my guess. No way its gone up 10k in 3 years with essentially no growth in development.

Edit: 2009 census for Cochrane was 15,424.

[Jay in Cowtown]

Originally Posted by mersar

No more than 18000 is my guess. No way its gone up 10k in 3 years with essentially no growth in development.

Edit: 2009 census for Cochrane was 15,424.

Huh, I guess they were way off... I'd thought around 18'000 as well.

[MrBigStuff]

Originally Posted by mersar

No more than 18000 is my guess. No way its gone up 10k in 3 years with essentially no growth in development.

Edit: 2009 census for Cochrane was 15,424.

I got numbers for the centers right around Calgary and those came up to 104,871 - but I used the 2009 census for Cochrane in that total. It' is really quite amazing when you add up the populations of the outlying places right close to the city and get such incredible numbers - that throws the immediate trade area population up to just under 1.2 million.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by MrBigStuff

I got numbers for the centers right around Calgary and those came up to 104,871 - but I used the 2009 census for Cochrane in that total. It' is really quite amazing when you add up the populations of the outlying places right close to the city and get such incredible numbers - that throws the immediate trade area population up to just under 1.2 million.

And that probably didn't include the 30,000 people who live in Rockyview or the 8,000 in Wheatland

[MrBigStuff]

Originally Posted by mersar

And that probably didn't include the 30,000 people who live in Rockyview or the 8,000 in Wheatland

Oops - never even thought of them - sorry folks!!!
Very good point.
That gives us an even bigger punch.