Census indicates Calgary just shy of 1.1 million citizens
Posted Jul 27, 2011 12:47 pm.
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Calgary’s population has grown by 19,400 in the past year, an increase of nearly two per cent since April 2010.
Many more people moved to Calgary compared to those who left the city, meaning net migration was more than 95-hundred people. In the previous cencus, the city actually experienced negative net migration.
A self-confessed statistics nerd, Mayor Naheed Nenshi says good data leads to better decisions, adding he’s encouraged to see net migration up by nearly two per cent.
“We’re experiencing strong population growth in the city,” said Nenshi. “We are ready for that, I think in ways that we may not have been in the mid-2000’s. And we’re starting to see real changes in the pattern of growth and development in the city. And those will continue as public policy changes.”
Most of the growth comes in newer suburbs, but the Mayor says he’s encouraged by an increase in migration to the inner city. The Beltline is now the city’s second largest community.
“Sustainability is not just about the environment,” added Nenshi. “It’s also about social life. People’s commute times, being able to spend time with your family, by not being stuck in traffic. But it’s also about financial, because sprawl is financially unsustainable. We can never build enough firehalls or libraries to keep up with it. So making that shift and making better use of the facilities we have is very, very good news.”
Panorama Hills in the northend has unseated Tuscany as Calgary’s largest community with nearly 20,000 residents.
Calgary’s total population is only about 10,000 shy of 1.1 million.
