People in other cities, towns and rural areas (the non-CMAs) also moved—about 12,000 each year to Calgary and a whopping 16,000 to Edmonton. These bars are in orange.
Calgary enjoyed a net gain over both other regions. In other words, about 1,000 more people moved south from Edmonton than moved from Calgary north. Close to 2,000 more people also came to Calgary from rural Alberta than the other way around.
The largest flow of intra-provincial migration each year has been between Edmonton and rural Alberta. With 27,000 people moving between Edmonton and non-CMA towns and cities, Edmonton came out on top with a net gain of approximately 6,000 per year.
source: ATB