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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/popu...5-0d93f4bb9f45
The Ministry of Finance has updated population projections to 2051. The Census Division that aligns with Hamilton is now projected to have more than 903,000 people.
The city has been in a tizzy thinking about where to put the 820,000 from the older forecast. So what's another 83,000?
IF this comes to pass, the CMA will have well over a million people, even if Burlington doesn't grow very much, though Halton is projected to grow to nearly a million people itself (probably mostly in Milton, and Oakville still has land to develop; Burlington will largely need to rely on intensification and an acceptance of it)
Note: MOF's 2023 estimate for the city is above 615,000... and we all know projections have been wrong in the past, but still, I think we can expect a big wave of growth given the trends in the region. Waterloo is forecast to be 1.077 million, Middlesex (London) 883,000. There's going to be a need for a lot of infrastructure improvement in Ontario's southwest, particularly in transportation and water/sewers.
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I find the provincial census divisions confusing --- Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa are all represented as city populations, while Waterloo is region, and Middlesex is county.
Out of those selected census divisions, they have:
- Ottawa growing by 60% from 2023 to 2051 (1.11 million to 1.79 million)
- Waterloo growing by 60% (675k to 1.08 million)
- Middlesex growing by 57% (564k to 883k)
- Hamilton growing by 47% (615k to 903k)
- Toronto growing by 35% (3.11 million to 4.19 million)
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