Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct
municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive.
Municipalities choose to conduct their own
census
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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
357 municipalities between April 1 and June 30,
2014
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, down from 358 as at June 30, 2013, which marked the closure of the 2014 legislated municipal census period. At least 39 of these municipalities () conducted a municipal census in 2014.
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 37 of these municipalities.
By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 13 of Alberta's
17 cities, 18 of
108 towns, 3 of
93 villages, 1 of
51 summer villages and 2 of
64 municipal districts.
[ In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the Town of Drayton Valley and the ]Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124
The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124 is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district (MD) in north-central Alberta, Canada. Its List of municipal districts in Alberta#Office locations, municipal office is located ...
.[
Some municipalities achieved population milestones as a result of their 2014 censuses. Airdrie and Cochrane grew beyond the 50,000 and 20,000 marks respectively, while both Beaumont and Cold Lake exceeded 15,000. The towns of ]Morinville
Morinville is a town in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. It is approximately north of Edmonton along Alberta Highway 2, Highway 2.
History
Morinville was settled by Jean-Baptiste Morin, a priest and missionary of the Mi ...
, St. Paul and Raymond
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surpassed 9,000, 6,000 and 4,000 residents respectively, while the Municipal District (MD) of Lesser Slave River No. 124 exceeded 3,000.
Municipal census results
The following summarizes the results of the numerous municipal censuses conducted in 2014.
Breakdowns
Hamlets
The following is a list of hamlet
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s that had populations determined by the 2014 municipal census conducted by their administering municipal districts.
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 Town of Banff and the MD of Bonnyville No. 87 conducted shadow population counts in 2014. The following presents the results of these counts for comparison with its concurrent municipal census results.
]
Notes
See also
*2013 Alberta municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Alberta, Canada on Monday, October 21, 2013 in Canada, 2013. Mayors (Reeve (Canada), reeves), councillors (Alderman, aldermen), and trustees were elected to office in 16 of the List of cities in Alberta, 17 citie ...
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of Local government in Canada, local governments – urban municipalities (including List of cities in Alberta, cities, List of towns in Alberta, towns, List of villages in Alberta, vil ...
*List of municipalities in Alberta
Alberta is the Population of Canada by province and territory, fourth-most populous provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Census of Population and is the List of Canadian ...
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
2014 censuses
2014 in Alberta