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Originally Posted by RWin

Anecdotal nonsense would be my guess.

My own anecdotal nonsense is that most people are not leaving.

Well perhaps not all of Alberta but the Calgary numbers are not so good.

2016 Calgary census by the numbers:

1,235,171 — Calgary’s population as of April 2016;

4,256 — The number of new residents compared to 2015;

6,527 — The number of people who left the city compared to 2015;

10,783 — The natural increase (births over deaths);

499,222 — The total number of dwelling units in the city, a 1.32 per cent increase from 2015;

20,843 — The number of vacant dwelling units in Calgary, up 8,317 from 2015;

9,508 — The number of dwellings under construction;

69.78 — Percentage of owner-occupied homes;

2,040 — The population growth in the southeast community of Mahogany, the community that saw the most growth in 2016;

6,322 — The number of new residents in southeast Calgary’s Ward 12, which saw the most growth in 2016;

2,114 — The number of residents who left east Calgary’s Ward 10, which saw the biggest population loss in 2016.