Halifax Population & Growth

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Originally Posted by Drybrain

Forgive me if this has been dealt with before, but I've noticed something weird in StatCan population numbers for HRM.

Sometimes I see a 2011 census population of about 390,000 cited, and other times I see 409,000.

It's not an enormous difference either way, but that latter table has the population at 398,000 in 2009--two years before the most recent census, and 8,000 persons higher than the 390,000 figure (which, for what it's worth, is the population according to Wikipedia.)

Does anyone know why there are two counts that differ by 20,000 people? And which one is correct?

This is the most recent population estimate, the other number was the census count which apparently a lot of Haligonians did not complete the census.

July 1st 2012 population estimate Halifax: 413,710


http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a03?lang=eng&pattern=051-0046..051-0054&p2=31[/QUOTE]

I would estimate Halifax to be about 418,000 today.