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

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

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 343 municipalities. Of these, at least three municipalities are conducting a municipal census in 2022, including the City of Cold Lake, the Town of

High Level High Level is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located at the intersection of the Mackenzie Highway (Highway 35) and Highway 58, approximately north of Edmonton and south of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. High Level is located w ...

, and

Strathcona County Strathcona County is a specialized municipality in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region within Alberta, Canada between Edmonton and Elk Island National Park. It forms part of Census Division No. 11. Strathcona County is both urban and rural in n ...

Municipal census results

The following summarizes the results of the three municipal censuses conducted in 2022.

Breakdowns

Urban and rural service areas

Hamlets

The following is a list of

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populations determined by the 2022 municipal census conducted by Strathcona County, excluding the Sherwood Park urban service area that is presented above.

Notes

References

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External links

Alberta Municipal AffairsStatistics Canada

Statistics Canada: Census Program
Local government in Alberta Municipal censuses in Alberta 2022 censuses 2022 in Alberta