Well, the answer to this thread is 807,153 as Hamilton's CMA 2020 population.
Hamilton-area population climbs to 812,000 as more leave big cities for 'smaller places'
5,375 new arrivals between 2020 and July 2021 takes city's population to 812,528, Statistics Canada says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...scan-1.6328426
Hamilton continues to be a city of choice for newcomers to Canada, as well as Canadians leaving bigger cities like Toronto, new data from Statistics Canada shows.
Earlier this month, the federal agency published new annual demographic estimates for subprovincial areas, with data up to July 2021.
According to the new data, 10,196 people took up residence in the Hamilton census metropolitan area — which includes Burlington and Grimsby — for the period 2018-2019 for a total population of 795,410. There were 11,743 new arrivals in 2019-2020 for a total population of 807,153. Between 2020 and July 2021, there have been 5,375 new arrivals with the area's population currently standing at 812,528.
Bruce Newbold, a professor of geography at McMaster University, said there are two big drivers of population growth in Hamilton.
"One is international migration, so people coming to Hamilton from outside of Canada, and Hamilton has long been a relatively important place for immigrant settlement," Newbold told CBC News.
"The other piece is that internal movement, and we've certainly, over the course of the pandemic, seen movement out of the big cities like Toronto and into smaller places like Hamilton."