Sorry to revive a dead thread, but the wisdom and reflection of time makes the observations we made back in 2010-11 interesting looking at it today.
According to Stats Canada the metro population of Halifax as of July 2016 is 425,900.
Now I'm guessing that's how many live in the HRM, how many live in and around the urban core is a completely different mystery.
Halifax saw a year of record growth between 2015-16 with an increased of 8,200, that's 1.925% increase in growth, and over double what we had in the 2014-15 year. And they're predicting another strong potentially record breaking year of growth for the 2016-17 year and another strong one following that.
For the sake of simplicity let's just say we get an additional 8,000 citizens for the remaining four years that would be reflected in the census.
That would put Halifax at 454,900 to start off the second decade in the 21st century.
And in my opinion that's a conservative estimate, it's very possible that Halifax will see more growth then that.
So it seems that Halifaxboyns's predictions seem to be right in line for the year 2026 with hovering around 500,000
Sources:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tabl...emo05a-eng.htm
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...ic-growth.html