Calgary Population Growth. - Page 3

Surrealplaces · #41 Posted **Mar 30, 2015, 6:32 PM**

2015 Census will be starting up soon. This year will have an online option, which I'm hoping will help speed up results. There will still be door to door action, but if enough people do it online, it should reduce the amount of doors that need to be knocked on. Maybe going forward we can get the results quicker?

Chadillaccc · #42 Posted **Mar 31, 2015, 6:49 AM**

That would be nice.

Well, considering what we know now about the employment data and what banks are saying about our (still high according to them) population growth, what are your guys' revised estimates for the result this year? Mine was already fairly optimistic at 25 - 30 000, so I'll keep it at a firm 28 000.

Deepstar · #43 Posted **Mar 31, 2015, 6:20 PM**

I'm going to go with 25K this year, which would still be pretty damn good. I wouldn't be surprised if we grew by 30K

Tosin007 · #44 Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 9:37 PM**

Tosin Calgary Population Estimates for April 1st, 2015

Municipal Population: 1,234,044
Calgary CMA: 1,438,141
Calgary Region: 1,518,141

Chadillaccc · #45 Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 6:35 AM**

Surrealplaces · #46 Posted **Apr 7, 2015, 5:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tosin007

Tosin Calgary Population Estimates for April 1st, 2015

Municipal Population: 1,234,044
Calgary CMA: 1,438,141
Calgary Region: 1,518,141

Looks about right!

Has anyone done their census online? I can't find the letter from the city with my code.

Boris2k7 · #47 Posted **Apr 7, 2015, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Looks about right!

Has anyone done their census online? I can't find the letter from the city with my code.

Did ours over the weekend. Took about a minute total. Got the letter two or three weeks ago.

mersar · #48 Posted **Apr 7, 2015, 7:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Looks about right!

Has anyone done their census online? I can't find the letter from the city with my code.

We haven't gotten ours either as of today.

simster3 · #49 Posted **Apr 7, 2015, 7:35 PM**

I did ours last week. Very easy. I hope there is a really good participation rate for this. Is there another way to get your code, like by calling 311?

lubicon · #50 Posted **Apr 7, 2015, 9:58 PM**

Did mine last week as well. Way too easy, all forms of government should look to doing it this way.

Fuzz · #51 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 1:16 AM**

Thanks for the reminder, found mine buried under detritus on the mail table.

Tosin007 · #52 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 3:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Looks about right!

Has anyone done their census online? I can't find the letter from the city with my code.

Thanks & no not yet :/

Chadillaccc · #53 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 3:36 AM**

Thanks for the reminder! Doing it now

Chadillaccc · #54 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 4:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tosin007

Tosin Calgary Population Estimates for April 1st, 2015

Municipal Population: 1,234,044
Calgary CMA: 1,438,141
Calgary Region: 1,518,141

That would be a growth of only 32 000 for the metro area since the last official federal estimate. That would be disappointing, but I guess not entirely unexpected.

Our employment numbers and migration are all still looking excellent so hopefully the real numbers from Statcan are a bit better. Here's an article about the differences between Alberta and Calgary as far as the economic woes/boom go...

Alberta loses 14,000 jobs in February but Calgary gains 2,100

Story: http://calgaryherald.com/business/local-...s-in-february-as-unemployment-rate-rises

kora · #55 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 3:47 PM**

City of Calgary is predicting a municipal growth of 33,700 for 2014-2015 to a population of 1,228,900

Calgary and Region Economic Outlook, 2015-2020, Spring 2015 (see page 24)
City of Calgary, CFOs Department
http://www.calgary.ca/CA/fs/Documents/Co...-Region-Economic-Outlook-2015-Spring.pdf

Spring2008 · #56 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 5:33 PM**

Seems a bit aggressive forecasting 30,000 per year city proper growth for the next few years through the downturn? At this rate we're not that far off the 1.5M city proper milestone.

The Calgary Economic Region is now at 1.57M after what looks to be multiple years of 50,000+ growth per year. Pretty impressive.

Surrealplaces · #57 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by mersar

We haven't gotten ours either as of today.

Maybe they are just late with some households. I thought I was the only one.

Surrealplaces · #58 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 5:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

Seems a bit aggressive forecasting 30,000 per year city proper growth for the next few years through the downturn? At this rate we're not that far off the 1.5M city proper milestone.

The Calgary Economic Region is now at 1.57M after what looks to be multiple years of 50,000+ growth per year. Pretty impressive.

It does seem kind of aggressive, but 33k this year is about right. I would say closer to 20-25K the next couple of years for the city proper.

Surrealplaces · #59 Posted **Apr 8, 2015, 6:37 PM**

Okay...so I called the city (Phone: (403) 476-4100- Option 3) seeing as I hadn't seen a code in the mail, and they just gave me one over the phone. Took 2 seconds to do.....nice and easy.

Chadillaccc · #60 Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 3:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

It does seem kind of aggressive, but 33k this year is about right. I would say closer to 20-25K the next couple of years for the city proper.

Not bad at all. 33 000 would put us over 1 230 000 in the city. With the slowdown, we'll probably only be at about 1 350 000 by 2020.