The Municipal District of Taber is a
municipal district
A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly-defined territory and its population. It can refer to a city, a town, a village, a small grouping of them, or a rural area.
Brazil
In Brazil, municipal districts are, in genera ...
(MD) in southern
Alberta
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, Canada. It is located in
Census Division 2.
Geography
Communities and localities
The following
urban municipalities are surrounded by the MD of Taber.
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Cities
*none
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Towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Taber (location of
municipal office)
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Vauxhall
Vauxhall ( ) is a district in South West London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. Vauxhall was part of Surrey until 1889 when the County of London was created. Named after a medieval manor, "Fox Hall", it became well known for ...
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Villages
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Barnwell
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Summer villages
*none
The following
hamlets are located within the MD of Taber.
[
; Hamlets
* Enchant
* Grassy Lake
* Hays
* Johnson's Addition
* Purple Springs
The following localities are located within the MD of Taber.]Antonio
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*Armelgra
*Barney
* Cranford
*Elcan
* Fincastle
*Grantham
Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...
* Retlaw
*Scope
;Other places
* Askow
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the MD of Taber had a population of 7,447 living in 1,971 of its 2,119 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 7,098. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the
2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Taber had a population of 7,098 living in 1,857 of its 2,081 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 6,851. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
The population of the MD of Taber according to its
2016 municipal census is 7,173,
a change from its
2013 municipal census population of 7,116.
By its five hamlets, the 2016 municipal census population breaks down into 259 residents in Enchant, 815 in Grassy Lake, 163 in Hays, 130 in Johnson's Addition and 44 in Purple Springs, resulting in a remaining rural area population of 5,762.
See also
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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 ...
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List of municipal districts in Alberta
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc. ...
References
External links
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