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Old Posted Oct 21, 2021, 8:37 PM
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Originally Posted by nito View Post
The last year before Covid-19 must have been a big outlier relative to all previous years this century. Based on historic data that I compiled a while ago, between 2001-2018, Toronto expanded by 0.5mn, relative to 1.5mn for London. Melbourne is a slightly different conversation due the size of the area, but it grew by 1.6mn, which would still be above the equally broad GTHA area (1.5mn). I’m not sure about Dallas or NYC.
Your numbers for the City proper are roughly accurate.

The City of Toronto was just a hair under 2.5M in 2001, when the new census data is out, it will be expected to be ~3M or just a fraction higher.

However, its worth say, that the pace has quickened considerably in the last few years (pre-Covid) with annual growth in the 75,000 range.

Your GTA numbers would also be pretty close at ~1.5M

Of course, if measuring the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH), which is roughly the commuter-shed of Toronto, you get growth of between 2.5M-3M over the period 2001-2021. (we'll have to await the exact census numbers. But the GGH was listed as 7.5M in 2001 and was listed at 10.1M in 2019 by Hemson Consulting working for the Province of Ontario.

https://www.hemson.com/wp-content/up...rt-26Aug20.pdf

I won't comment on growth elsewhere, as I haven't studied those numbers.

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If you read growth as a percent of base population though, the GGH has grown roughly by 40% over 20 years

The City of Toronto by about 20% in the same time period. But something like 9% is in the last 5 years.
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