Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses. Municipalities choose to conduct their own

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es for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision or to simply update their populations since the last federal census. Alberta began the year of

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with 345 municipalities, which decreased to 343 with the dissolutions of Improvement District No. 349 on May 1 and the Village of

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on July 1. Of these, the only two municipalities to conduct a municipal census in 2021 were the Town of

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and the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo.

Municipal census results

The following summarizes the results of the two municipal censuses conducted in 2021.

Breakdowns

Urban and rural service areas

Hamlets

The following is a list of

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populations determined by the 2021 municipal census conducted by the RM of Wood Buffalo, excluding the Fort McMurray 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." The RM of Wood Buffalo conducted a shadow population count in 2021. The following presents the results of this count for comparison with its concurrent municipal census results.

Notes

References

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External links

Alberta Municipal AffairsStatistics Canada

Statistics Canada: Census Program
Local government in Alberta Municipal censuses in Alberta 2021 censuses 2021 in Alberta