Alberta Population Growth

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Oh okay. So eventually they will be included in Red Deer.

Originally Posted by MalcolmTucker

^ If there are commuter patterns, which who knows. The industrial parks are pretty spread around surrounding municipalities.

Eventually those areas will join Red Deer, but it might be a while.

Same for Okotoks/High river to Calgary. Those commuter rules are what is keeping Okotoks, Etc... from joining Calgary's CMA. One would expect that the population of Foothills MD area will be part of Calgary CMA eventually, but it might not happen as soon as people expect. There are a lot of people in those areas that work in their own area rather than Calgary. I don't have the numbers handy, but if you look at Statscan community profiles, you can see that a high number of people in Okotoks work in High River for example...enough to keep the commute numbers to Calgary under 50%

[Chadillaccc]

I imagine it could happen by census 2021, but only if the numbers are above 50% by the next census. If not, it won't be until 2026 or later.

[chris]

How do the growth rates for Grande Prairie look??

[DizzyEdge]

I'm curious how Airdrie's population will continue to grow. Since 2006 it has grown an average of 8% every year, from ~28k in 2006 to ~54k this year. At that rate it would hit 100k in 8 years and be the 3rd largest city in alberta in about 10. It's already on course to surpass Grande Prairie, Medicine Hat and St. Albert in the next year or two. Will be interesting to see if that growth will scale up.

[Konstantinos]

Hello everyone and congratulations for your forum... This is Konstantinos from Athens, Greece... I am preparing to get in Canada with the IEC program, in 2015.

I have a 5-year-diploma (300 ECTS) of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Greece, (fresh graduated - 2014), 26 years old and I am wondering how is the situation in Alberta. As Electrical and Computer Engineer, will I be able to find work, even though I am in entry level without experience? Or will it be difficult at all? Maybe there is a chance for survival problem?

My scientific interests are the following: Control Systems, Programmable Logic Controllers, Robotics, Power Electronics and Electric Machines, but I also have a good knowledge of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering...

According APEGA, in the begin I will be in "Engineer in Training" level.

Maybe there is a better province - city?

Thank you in advance.

[kora]

Year on year population growth in Alberta continues to exceed 100,000

Oct 1 2014: 4,145,992
Oct 1 2013: 4,039,182

Stats Canada
Quarterly Demographic Estimates
July to September 2014
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...3/t002-eng.htm

[DizzyEdge]

564k less than BC in 2013
512k less than BC in 2014

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by zahav

Hey everyone, I wasn't sure what thread to post this in, but it is certainly somewhat related to business in this city/province.

Statistics Canada release their quarterly population figures, and BC's growth was phenomenal. Here's a high levell snapshot from the release:

The population of British Columbia was estimated at 4,657,900 on October 1, 2014, an increase of 26,600 (+0.6%) since July 1, 2014 and the largest quarterly growth since the third quarter of 1995. The population growth was mainly attributable to net international migration (+18,800) which was the highest for any quarter since 1971. Net interprovincial migration (+4,200) and natural increase (+3,700) also contributed to the province’s population growth.

This is big news, the highest growth in the province in 20 years! Not only that, but the highest international migration since records began, and very high interprovincial migration (usually only Alberta leads Canada in this area, but for the 3rd quarter BC did amazing and actually had a net GAIN with Alberta, meaning we attracted more people from there than we lost!). Overall our growth rate was 0.58, and Alberta's was 0.59, while Canada overall was 0.38. This means we were almost the fastest growing province in the country again, not since the mid-90s was this the case.

Let me know if there's another thread more applicable, but i thought this was worth mentioning! Full report here:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...014003-eng.pdf

Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

564k less than BC in 2013
512k less than BC in 2014

Those stats you gave remind me of a post I just saw in the Vancouver section.

[kora]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Those stats you gave remind me of a post I just saw in the Vancouver section.

Well, Alberta is dominating in immigrants. I think their lead is from temporary migrants, especially students. BC is a popular foreign student destination.

When we just look at immigrants for Q3 2014:
Alberta: 10,289
BC: 7,985
Manitoba's numbers are remarkable: 4,236

Stats Canada
Quarterly estimates of demographic components, national perspective — Immigrants
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...3/t025-eng.htm

[RWin]

We've come a long way since 1940. Calgary was smaller then than Lethbridge is now. Raymond was bigger than Red Deer. And the population of the province was less than current population of Edmonton.

http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta....lation1940.pdf

[Chadillaccc]

BC grew faster than us in the final quarter of 2014. We grew by 25 000, they grew by 27 000. Their biggest quarterly growth since 1995, pretty impressive!

http://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/statistic...y_Pop_Prov.pdf

[Bcasey25raptor]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

BC grew faster than us in the final quarter of 2014. We grew by 25 000, they grew by 27 000. Their biggest quarterly growth since 1995, pretty impressive!

http://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/statistic...y_Pop_Prov.pdf

BC is back.

Hahaha. Personally I don't know why. All my anecdotes show many people are still leaving. Maybe part of that growth is British columbians coming home.

[240glt]

Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

BC is back.

Hahaha. Personally I don't know why. All my anecdotes show many people are still leaving. Maybe part of that growth is British columbians coming home.

Young people are still leaving as the mediocre economy provides less opportunity, but I know lots of 35+ year old people who now more employable who are moving back

We'll be heading back in 11 years. That's the plan anyways

[Chadillaccc]

Not exactly related to population growth but a pretty good indication of what's happening in the major metro areas of the province. Calgary should still see pretty substantial population growth this year if these numbers are any indication. Growth from July 1 straight through January.

[kora]

Quarterly Demographic Estimates
October to December 2014
Statistics Canada

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...014004-eng.htm


Immigration to Alberta continuing to set records. 9180 immigrants in the quarter to Alberta, compared with 7697 for BC.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...4/t025-eng.pdf


Still strong net interprovincial migration numbers of 4178, again leading all provinces for now.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-002-...4/t032-eng.pdf

[ssiguy]

The figures for the entire country are pretty bad. Every single province grew slower in the 4th quarter of 2014 than they did in the 4th quarter of 2013.

Also and probably more telling is that Canada had a NEGATIVE net international migration rate..........more people left the country than came. That hasn't happened in at least 35 years as that is as far back as the chart goes.

Manitoba's population grew faster than Ontario or BC!

[Chadillaccc]

Some pretty wild numbers, I question their validity, but still great seeing Alberta growing strong. Obviously the next quarterly numbers will be much less exciting for us though which is too bad.

14 000 people in 3 months is pretty sweet. Looking forward to seeing the municipal census numbers this summer.

[Chadillaccc]

Also of note, Alberta is now less than 500 000 behind BC in population.

[Bcasey25raptor]

My Mother in Calgary told me rents have dropped due to a decrease in demand.

If this is true, Could Calgary's population boom period have ended?

[DizzyEdge]

http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/Red_D...306985931.html

Red Deer has reached 100,000 people.

By Staff Writer - Red Deer Advocate
Published: June 11, 2015 9:34 AM
Updated: June 11, 2015 1:00 PM
Red Deer has reached 100,000 people.

The results of this spring’s census were released this morning by the City of Red Deer.

Mayor Tara Veer and other city council members and staff were on hand for the announcement at City Hall Park.

“Our final count from this year’s municipal census has Red Deer at a population of 100,807. This is a transformative, defining, game-changing moment for our city,” said Veer.

more: http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/Red_D...306985931.html