Saskatoon Growth

[joelpiecowye]

Saskatoon is growing fast, how many years do you believe it will take for it to reach 300,000 people?

[vid]

13 years 9 months 8 days

[Mayor Quimby]

Is this like Price is Right, closest without going over ?

I guess....

14 years

[A4Regina]

im guessing it will reach 300,000 when Regina hits it's 230,000 mark. aka...15 years?

[vid]

Originally Posted by Mayor Quimby

Is this like Price is Right, closest without going over ?

I guess....

14 years

Fucker.

I change mine to 15 years plus a day.

[ReginaGuy]

Metro or city proper?

[patalb]

If you assume annual growth rate 2.5% and a CMA ~235000...then in 10 yrs
then 235000*1.025^10 = just over 300k

[ReginaGuy]

At the current growth rate, for the city proper, not until 2021

[bc2mb]

these threads are pointless..

[psych1]

Originally Posted by bc2mb

these threads are pointless..

Yes, and we can kep them going forever by talking about it.

[ReginaGuy]

Originally Posted by patalb

If you assume annual growth rate 2.5% and a CMA ~235000...then in 10 yrs
then 235000*1.025^10 = just over 300k

Originally Posted by ReginaGuy

At the current growth rate, for the city proper, not until 2021

Actually, we both made the same mistake. Saskatoon isn't growing at 2.8% per year, it's growing at 2.8% per 5 years, which is 0.56% per year.

So, at the current rate, Saskatoon would reach 300,000 in the year 2077

[patalb]

oh ya u're right....that doesnt look good.
Hopefully most of that 2.8% was growth from 2005 and 06 and the pop is going to increase at a much faster pace as economy in sask keeps gong strong.

[steveo]

Hi... long time lurker first time poster (this year)

Anyway i found this map here, it seems the city of believes saskatoon will have a population of 400,000 by the year 2055.



It also gives you a good idea where most of the suburban development will occur as well as where the new perimiter highway will be placed.

Source: http://www.saskatoon.ca/org/city_pla..._Saskatoon.pdf

[Echoes]

^Very cool
this site: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/rank...ITY&ptype=CITY pegs Saskatoon's current growth rate at 3.5%. I believe the growth rate that the census gave was a year old before it was released so the real boom in this past year or so isn't evident in those numbers.

[ReginaGuy]

Originally Posted by steveo

Hi... long time lurker first time poster (this year)

Anyway i found this map here, it seems the city of believes saskatoon will have a population of 400,000 by the year 2055.

I really don't see Saskatoon doubling in size in 48 years. That would mean a growth rate of almost 3% per year, which is faster than Calgary is growing

[psych1]

Originally Posted by Country

^Very cool
this site: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/rank...ITY&ptype=CITY pegs Saskatoon's current growth rate at 3.5%. I believe the growth rate that the census gave was a year old before it was released so the real boom in this past year or so isn't evident in those numbers.

the 3.5 refers to score, not percentage. It is actually a low score. From the website:

"The average population growth in Canada between 2001 and 2006 was approximately 6%. We determined that the ideal growth rate for a community would be higher than the national average, so we chose an ideal rate of just under 7.5% in total over the 2001 to 2006 time period. The closer a community's actual growth rate was to this ideal rate, the more points it got. Communities with a negative growth rate received zero points. Source: Statistics Canada"

[Echoes]

^whoops... good eye.

[Jonitecture]

i think Saskatoon will grow a lot faster than most of you think, i would say between 5 to 10 years

[Ruckus]

Originally Posted by Jonitecture

i think Saskatoon will grow a lot faster than most of you think, i would say between 5 to 10 years

The stars are aligning. I'll second your optimistic attitude and raise you a for a new governing party and expanded uranium and oil industries.