[Halifax Hillbilly]

One huge thing that makes it difficult to compare Halifax's population and growth rate to other Canadian cities is the inability to get an idea of what the metropolitan population of HRM is. Statscan uses the political entity of HRM as the census metropolitan area, which is obviously problematic since it's hard to consider the rural, eastern portions as part of metro.

I suppose one could put together the census tracts that would make up a more realistic metropolitan Halifax from Statscan info, but I assume that would be a lot of work and I'm not even sure that info would be available online for free.

Does anyone have a reliable number for urban/suburban numbers for Halifax?