2024 Alberta municipal censuses
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Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses.[1] Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision, inform an electoral boundary review, or to simply update their populations since the last federal census.[2][3]
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Distribution of Alberta's 260 urban municipalities |
Alberta began the year of 2024 with 342 municipalities.[4] Of these, 24 notified Alberta Municipal Affairs of their intentions to conduct a municipal census in 2024.[5] Censuses were ultimately conducted by five cities, ten towns, two villages, two specialized municipalities, three municipal districts, and one improvement district.
Municipal census results
The following summarizes the results of those 23 municipal censuses conducted in 2024.
| 2024 municipal census summary[6] | 2021 federal census comparison[7][8] | Previous municipal census comparison[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipality | Status | Census date |
2024 pop. |
2021 pop. |
Absolute growth |
Absolute change |
Annual growth rate |
Prev. pop. |
Prev. census year |
Absolute growth |
Annual growth rate |
| Airdrie | City | April 1, 2024 | 85,805 | 74,100 | 11,705 | 15.8% | 5.0% | 80,649 | 2023 | 5,156 | 6.4% |
| Alix | Village | May 7, 2024 | 781 | 774 | 7 | 0.9% | 0.3% | 775 | 1998 | 6 | 0.0% |
| Blackfalds | Town | May 6, 2024 | 11,415 | 10,470 | 945 | 9% | 2.9% | 11,015[17] | 2021 | 400 | 1.2% |
| Bonnyville | Town | May 1, 2024 | 6,675 | 6,404 | 271 | 4.2% | 1.4% | 6,422 | 2017 | 253 | 0.1% |
| Carmangay | Village | June 19, 2024 | 308 | 269 | 39 | 14.5% | 4.6% | 250 | 2017 | 58 | 3.0% |
| Carstairs | Town | April 15, 2024 | 5,313 | 4,898 | 415 | 8.5% | 2.7% | 2,501 | 2005 | 2,812 | 4.0% |
| Chestermere | City | May 1, 2024 | 28,129 | 22,163 | 5,966 | 26.9% | 8.3% | 20,732 | 2018 | 7,397 | 5.2% |
| Cochrane | Town | April 2, 2024 | 37,011 | 32,199 | 4,812 | 14.9% | 4.8% | 29,277 | 2019 | 7,734 | 4.8% |
| Crossfield | Town | May 1, 2024 | 4,211 | 3,599 | 612 | 17% | 5.4% | 3,371 | 2018 | 834 | 4.5% |
| Falher | Town | April 15, 2024 | 1,039 | 1,001 | 38 | 30.8% | 1.2% | 1,172 | 1990 | −133 | −0.4% |
| Flagstaff County | Municipal district | May 1, 2024 | 3,660 | 3,694 | −34 | −0.9% | −0.3% | 4,507 | 1984 | −847 | −0.5% |
| Fort Saskatchewan | City | April 1, 2024 | 29,857 | 27,088 | 2,769 | 10.2% | 3.3% | 28,624 | 2023 | 1,233 | 4.3% |
| Fox Creek | Town | May 10, 2024 | 2,015 | 1,792 | 223 | 12.4% | 4.0% | 1,789[18] | 2019 | 226 | 2.4% |
| Grande Prairie | City | May 1, 2024 | 70,385 | 64,141 | 6,244 | 9.7% | 3.1% | 69,088 | 2018 | 1,297 | 0.3% |
| County of Grande Prairie No. 1 | Municipal district | April 3, 2024 | 26,701 | 24,623 | 2,078 | 8.4% | 2.7% | 17,989 | 2006 | 8,712 | 2.2% |
| Improvement District No. 4 (Waterton) | Improvement district | May 15, 2024 | 166 | 132 | 34 | 25.8% | 7.9% | 108 | 2018 | 58 | 7.4% |
| MD of Lesser Slave River No. 124 | Municipal district | April 28, 2024 | 2,809 | 2,861 | −52 | −1.8% | −0.6% | 2,811 | 2019 | −2 | 0.0% |
| Mackenzie County | Specialized municipality | May 13, 2024 | 14,380 | 12,804 | 1,576 | 12.3% | 3.9% | 12,512 | 2018 | 1,868 | 2.3% |
| Mundare | Town | May 1, 2024 | 858 | 792 | 66 | 8.3% | 2.7% | 823 | 2009 | 35 | 0.3% |
| Oyen | Town | June 15, 2024 | 970 | 917 | 53 | 5.8% | 1.9% | 1,022 | 2017 | −52 | −0.7% |
| Penhold | Town | 3,854[19] | 3,484 | 370 | 10.6% | 3.4% | 3,563 | 2019 | 291 | 1.6% | |
| St. Albert | City | May 6, 2024 | 72,316 | 68,232 | 4,084 | 6% | 2.0% | 66,082 | 2018 | 6,234 | 1.5% |
| Strathcona County | Specialized municipality | May 1, 2024 | 103,829[20] | 99,225 | 4,604 | 4.6% | 1.5% | 100,362 | 2022 | 3,467 | 1.7% |
| Sylvan Lake | Town | April 15, 2024 | 16,275 | 15,995 | 280 | 1.8% | 0.6% | 13,015 | 2013 | 3,260 | 2.1% |
Breakdowns
Urban and rural service areas
| 2024 municipal census summary[20] | 2022 municipal census comparison[20] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 2024 population |
Previous population |
Absolute growth |
Annual growth rate |
| Sherwood Park urban service area[a] | 75,575 | 73,000 | 2,575 | 1.7% |
| Rural service area[b] | 28,253 | 27,362 | 891 | 1.6% |
| Total Strathcona County | 103,829 | 100,362 | 3,467 | 1.7% |
Hamlets
The following is a list of hamlet populations determined by the 2024 municipal census conducted by Strathcona County, excluding the Sherwood Park urban service area that is presented above.
Shadow population
Alberta Municipal Affairs defines shadow population as "temporary residents of a municipality who are employed by an industrial or commercial establishment in the municipality for a minimum of 30 days within a municipal census year."[2] Three municipalities conducted a shadow population count in 2024. The following presents the results of these count for comparison with their concurrent municipal census results.
| Municipality | Status | Municipal census population[26] |
Shadow population[26] |
Combined population[26] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement District No. 4 (Waterton) | Improvement district | 166 | 384 | 550 |
| Fox Creek | Town | 2,015 | 413 | 2,428 |
| Oyen | Town | 970 | 195 | 1,165 |
See also
Notes
- The Sherwood Park urban service area is deemed equivalent to a city.[21]
- Strathcona County's rural service area is deemed equivalent to a municipal district.[21]