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 between April 1 and June 30 inclusive.
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, to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government, or to simply update their populations since the last
federal census.
Alberta had
359 municipalities between April 1 and June 30,
2012
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, up from 358 during the same three-month period in
2011
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. At least 58 of these municipalities () conducted a municipal census in 2012.
Alberta Municipal Affairs
Alberta Municipal Affairs is a ministry of the Executive Council of Alberta. Its major responsibilities include assisting municipalities in the provision of local government, administering the assessment of linear property in Alberta, administeri ...
recognized those conducted by 55 of these municipalities.
By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 8 of Alberta's
17 cities, 23 of
108 towns, 8 of
95 villages, 4 of
51 summer villages, 1 of
5 specialized municipalities, 3 of
64 municipal districts and all
8 Metis settlements.
[ In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the City of St. Albert, the Village of Beiseker 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 ...
(a specialized municipality).
Some municipalities achieved population milestones as a result of their 2011 censuses. Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
surpassed 1.1 million while the cities of Leduc and Fort Saskatchewan
Fort Saskatchewan is a city along the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. It is northeast of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It is part of the Edmonton census metropolitan area and one of 24 municipalities that constitute the Edmont ...
surpassed the 25,000 and the 20,000 marks respectively. Chestermere
Chestermere, originally named Chestermere Lake, is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta, within Rocky View County. It is largely a commuter town of Calgary and is a member municipality of the Calgary Region. The city, which surrounds Chest ...
, Alberta's fourth-largest town, surpassed 15,000 residents.
Municipal census results
The following summarizes the results of the numerous municipal censuses conducted in 2012.
Breakdowns
Urban and rural service areas
Strathcona County
Wood Buffalo
Hamlets
The following is a list of hamlet
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populations determined by 2012 municipal censuses conducted by 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 ...
and the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo excluding the urban service areas of Fort McMurray and Sherwood Park that are presented above.
Shadow population counts
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 2012. The following presents the results of this count for comparison with its concurrent municipal census results.
]
Notes
See also
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal district ...
*List of municipalities in Alberta
Alberta is the fourth-most populous province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of 2021 Census of Population and is the fourth-largest in land area at . Alberta's 344 municipalities cover of the province's land mass and are home to of i ...
References
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External links
Alberta Municipal Affairs: Municipal Census & Population Lists
Statistics Canada: Census Profile (2011 Census)
Local government in Alberta
Municipal censuses in Alberta
2012 censuses
2012 in Alberta