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Originally Posted by Drybrain
I'm curious as to how much of "Hakifax" is rural population (certainly there are parts of HRM that are not significant parts of the city's commuter shed, but functionally independent towns or villages).
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This page gives us a pretty good hint:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia
Statscan has tables showing employment by industry, but I don't have time to find them right now. The Wiki page suggests that about 3,600 people in HRM work in primary industries like fishing, farming, and forestry. 230,000 or so people are employed in HRM, so primary industries make up less than 2% of employment.
This doesn't jive at all with the idea that the Halifax metro area is inflated and actually 1/4 or more rural. In reality, most of the "rural" parts are just low-density suburbs, economically speaking. Places like Fall Rivers aren't really rural.
This economic angle is really what matters from a provincial perspective and an economic development perspective.
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