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Old Posted Sep 7, 2021, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by zahav View Post
Is there a difference between the Halifax CMA and the HRM? HRM boundaries are huge, and cover way more than what I think of as Halifax. Are the boundaries the same? East Hants seems a stretch to add into the CMA, but StatsCan has its methods, so they must have enough data on it to lump it in.
Basically this is caused by NS having some large districts that are considered as units for the purposes of the CMA. They are in or they are out. With East Hants most of the population living in the southern part which is about a 35 minute drive to downtown and 15-20 from some other employment areas. It is a bedroom community for the city. People sometimes claim this means the Halifax CMA has a hugely inflated population but this is not the case because most of the added land is sparsely populated. It has a large impact on total land area but not population. And sometimes the large districts cut the other way.

You can see what's going on here:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogr...of_Nova_Scotia

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