The other interesting subplot of the population boom is the impact on aging. It’s taken as a given that Nova Scotia has an aging population but that really hasn’t been true for almost half a decade. Last year the median age in Nova Scotia was 44.2 which is down from 45.1 in 2018. It's the youngest Nova Scotia has been since 2013. For Halifax, the median age is 39, which is down from 40.5 in 2015 and it’s the youngest the city has been since 2008.
The real fly in the ointment is when you look outside of Halifax. Last year, pretty miraculously, median ages’ dropped or stalled in basically every census division in Nova Scotia but the underlying age curves in most counties are still pretty bad. Here is the age chart for Halifax and the rest of Nova Scotia:
https://imgur.com/2RtDlw3
The counties in a ring around Halifax will probably be able manage pretty well with spillover growth from the city but the western and eastern parts of the province are still in tough even if they stop actively shrinking over the next few years.
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