2014 Civic Census

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

If I had to take a guess, I would say 1,195,000

I guess I was pretty lucky with my guess.

At any rate 37K last year and 38K this year is pretty damn good. Over 1000 new residents for the Beltline, and the best part is that it's just the tip of the iceberg of what's coming down the pipe.

[horrorshow]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

That is wild. Thanks!

Wow, the split between suburban and urban development is promising!

woohoo

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by Wooster

There was an accidental under count of 7000 last year. So last year was the second strongest growth year behind this year.

I believe this one has a slightly different definition of 'new communities' that dates back to some recently completed ones (still experiencing natural increase)

You can see a pretty big shift in the past few years toward redevelopment and increased population growth in established areas:

Impressive re-development numbers - strong and steady over last three years. Still not enough overall units, it seems, based on the reduced number of vacancies. This creates fertile ground for major new developments in the city.

Not sure what happened in 2010. Interesting to note that a portion of the strong numbers since were back filling the increased vacancies. Summing things for the 13 years covered, re-development added a net of 30,000, whereas outside of the inner city more then 10X that number.

[Spring2008]

This city's changing like crazy. Major props for many visionaries within the planning and various other city departments, the citizens, and the private sector. Inner-city development, design, walkability, transit, public realm etc. really taking off.

[Spring2008]

Calgary hits 1.195 million in latest census
Calgary, AB, Canada / News Talk 770 (CHQR)
Brenda Neufeld
July 22, 2014 11:02 am

Calgary’s population is edging closer to the 1.2 million mark. The latest census figures show there was an increase of over 38 thousand people in the last year, the largest ever yearly increase. It puts our population at 1.195 million, an increase of 3.3 percent.

Saddleridge had the biggest population growth in the last year, with an increase of over 23 hundred people.
Auburn Bay, Cranston, Skyview Ranch, Evanston, Panorama Hills, Aspen Woods and the Beltline all saw growth of more than 1, 000 residents. Some communities saw a decrease but those were neighbourhoods impacted by last year’s flood and the city is hoping those people return.

As for net migration, 28 thousand more people moved to Calgary than moved away from the city. The birth rate was higher than the death rate, by 10, 491.

In a transportation survey, the car is still king in Calgary with nearly 70 per cent of people saying that is how they get to work with 18 per cent using transit.

The number of housing units, both existing and under construction continued to rise, but the number of vacant dwelling continues to fall, with the overall vacancy rate at just 2 percent.

http://www.newstalk770.com/2014/07/22/35644/

[Chadillaccc]

33% of this years growth works out to nearly 13 000 people moving into the inner city

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by Spring2008

http://www.newstalk770.com/2014/07/22/35644/

Thanks for posting that. Will be interesting to see the biggest losers.

Looks like the Beltline was #8 of the 8 communities listed having the growth of 1,000 or more, barely squeaking in by 91 people. Panorama continues to expand it's lead as the most populous area, again having greater growth than the Beltline. Much of Panorama's increased numbers over the last few years has been multi-unit housing, with some duplexes also. I believe Panorama is also among if not thee oldest of the seven non-inner city areas on the list. It should have one more year of solid growth and then tail off.

Saddleridge (2,373)
Auburn Bay (2,242)
Cranston (1,858)
Skyview Ranch (1,759)
Evanston (1,704)
Panorama Hills (1,384)
Aspen Woods (1,095)
Beltline (1,091)

I don't see the spreadsheets yet. That will be interesting, so as to understand types of housing units in each area, and seeing where we continue to lose population.

[lubicon]

3.3% is the only number that truly means anything if you want to compare year to year growth. Absolute numbers are meaningless really. In my books where 1.8% is normal and anything over 2.5% is great, this is amazing. The City and Province really need to get their shit together on transit and transportation or population growth will completely outstrip the capacity of our system to move around and we will never catch up. The time to talk and study is over, there has been enough of that. It's time to move forward with some concrete plans.

[DizzyEdge]

"The latest numbers, which span April 2013 to April 2014"

So basically we've hit 1.2 million already.

[Rusty van Reddick]

18% using transit is incredibly high by North American standards.

[DizzyEdge]

For those interested, our population is what Vancouver area was in the early 1980s, and Toronto was in the early 1950s

[Chadillaccc]

Metro or Municipal?

Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

"The latest numbers, which span April 2013 to April 2014"

So basically we've hit 1.2 million already.

Yep!

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Thanks for posting that. Will be interesting to see the biggest losers.

Looks like the Beltline was #8 of the 8 communities listed having the growth of 1,000 or more, barely squeaking in by 91 people. Panorama continues to expand it's lead as the most populous area, again having greater growth than the Beltline. Much of Panorama's increased numbers over the last few years has been multi-unit housing, with some duplexes also. I believe Panorama is also among if not thee oldest of the seven non-inner city areas on the list. It should have one more year of solid growth and then tail off.

Saddleridge (2,373)
Auburn Bay (2,242)
Cranston (1,858)
Skyview Ranch (1,759)
Evanston (1,704)
Panorama Hills (1,384)
Aspen Woods (1,095)
Beltline (1,091)

I don't see the spreadsheets yet. That will be interesting, so as to understand types of housing units in each area, and seeing where we continue to lose population.

Full details:
http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Doc...nal%202014%20Census%20Results%20book.pdf

Panorama people to dwellings ratio: 3.12
Beltline people to dwellings ratio: 1.4

Between 2014 and 2010, the Beltline has added 610 units. This seems low to me, but explains in part why the population to dwellings ratio is not lower.

Panorama remains largest population of any area in the city, and the first to break 25,000 people. Beltline remains #3, but very close to #2.

28.5% of units in the Beltline are occupied by their owners. The Beltline also continues to hold the largest cash of unoccupied units, at almost 2,000. There are an additional 1,003 units under construction (as at the time the census was undertaken). This number is *by far* the largest in the city.

Interestingly, 32.6%, almost 1/3, of ALL dwellings in Panorama Hills are NOT single-family. This blows me away, but is a very good sign as the the make-up of modern suburbs as compared to 60's & 70's inner-city burbs.

[googspecial]

Originally Posted by suburbia

Full details:
http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Doc...nal%202014%20Census%20Results%20book.pdf

Looks like this is the first time in many years that there are more women than men in the city as well! (Pg 36)

[Spring2008]

Eau-Claire, Commerical Core, Beltline, Bridgeland, West Hillhurst, South Calgary in the 6-10% growth range, most other inner city areas in the 1-5% range. Chinatown's 10%+.

[Boris2k7]

Graphics time...

[onanewday]

Originally Posted by DizzyEdge

For those interested, our population is what Vancouver area was in the early 1980s, and Toronto was in the early 1950s

I have been thinking in these terms. Where is Calgary at in size compared to other cities. And Vancouver really started to take-off after the mid 80's to what is today. The years ahead could be very interesting here.

[Chadillaccc]

According to the municipal census, 29.61% of Calgarians now use alternative transportation to get to work. This figure includes public transportation, carpooling, bicycle, and walking.


Also, wards 7 and 8 make up around 50% of all bicycle commuters, over 60% of walkers, around 50% of motorcyclers, and have the two largest transit-using populations.

[Surrealplaces]

We've been over this many times, but here's a refresher...... The Beltline is an already developed neighbourhood, while Panorama is not, therefore the comparison is meaningless.......once Panorama, or any of the other newly u/c suburbs finish developing their land, they will be at peak and will only go down in population, whereas the Beltline will not.
Notice how places like Tuscany, Chaparral, or Hidden Valley - once upon the leaders of growth - are no longer on the list? Tuscany at one time had more people than the Beltline and where is it now? The same place Panorama will be in 5-10 years.

Originally Posted by suburbia

Thanks for posting that. Will be interesting to see the biggest losers.

Looks like the Beltline was #8 of the 8 communities listed having the growth of 1,000 or more, barely squeaking in by 91 people. Panorama continues to expand it's lead as the most populous area, again having greater growth than the Beltline. Much of Panorama's increased numbers over the last few years has been multi-unit housing, with some duplexes also. I believe Panorama is also among if not thee oldest of the seven non-inner city areas on the list. It should have one more year of solid growth and then tail off.

Saddleridge (2,373)
Auburn Bay (2,242)
Cranston (1,858)
Skyview Ranch (1,759)
Evanston (1,704)
Panorama Hills (1,384)
Aspen Woods (1,095)
Beltline (1,091)

I don't see the spreadsheets yet. That will be interesting, so as to understand types of housing units in each area, and seeing where we continue to lose population.

[Spring2008]

So much for the recent talks about the surrounding metro cities taking up all the growth while the city proper awaits a destiny of stagnation.