Population Growth is impressive!
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The Regional Municipality is out with the numbers from the census conducted in June of 2008. The total population of the region was 103, 334 last summer, up by 17.3 percent from the 2007 census. The 2008 numbers capture population trends in the communities of Fort McMurray, Anzac, Conklin, Draper, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Fitzgerald, Fort McKay, Gregoire Lake Estates, Janvier, Mariana Lake, and Saprae Creek.
The data collected in June of last year also shows that the urban service area of Fort McMurray reaced 72, 363, which is a 10.6 percent growth of the 2007 number of 65,400.
Data for Wood Buffalo's 2008 census was collected and analyzed through a partnership between the municipality's Planning and Development Department, and the Population Research Lab at the University of Alberta.
Municipal Affairs does not require local governments to conduct an annual census, but because of the rapid growth in Wood Buffalo, the municipality has chosen to do a census every year since 2004.