Dārayavauš
Active Member
Oh okay. What’s the population of the area around Marda Loop? 10,000?
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It depends on the boundaries of Marda Loop being that it's not an actual neighborhood. Generally it consists of Altadore, South Calgary, Garrison Woods and part of Richmond (east of Crowchild) and as of 2021 it was a little over 18K. Some also refer to areas west of Crowchild (Richmond and Garrison Green) as well, which would put it at around 22K
In this map below from https://www.visitmardaloop.com/ they use this area as the Marda Loop Market area.
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darwink
Senior Member
Wish had remembered where that free GIS tool was, but alas. Lets eyeball and do some math.
The communities of Richmond, Garrison Woods, Altadore, and South Calgary, which generously could be called Marda Loop add up to:
Richmond 5,250
Altadore 7,290
Garrison Woods 2,860
South Calgary 4,540
19,940. For comparison, the entire beltline is 25,880.
If we do this instead:
we end up with roughly:
9276
with east of crowchild only being 6,729
and thats if you can get a service to the middle of marda loop.
if you explore a bit on the census, around 40% of that catchment can work from home, which degrades transit demand, and around 20% of the population took transit to work in 2016 (more walked or biked than took transit), pre-work from home.
The communities of Richmond, Garrison Woods, Altadore, and South Calgary, which generously could be called Marda Loop add up to:
Richmond 5,250
Altadore 7,290
Garrison Woods 2,860
South Calgary 4,540
19,940. For comparison, the entire beltline is 25,880.
If we do this instead:
we end up with roughly:
9276
with east of crowchild only being 6,729
and thats if you can get a service to the middle of marda loop.
if you explore a bit on the census, around 40% of that catchment can work from home, which degrades transit demand, and around 20% of the population took transit to work in 2016 (more walked or biked than took transit), pre-work from home.
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ByeByeBaby
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I looked at this some time ago; I can't remember if this is 2016 or 2021 Census data tbh. Anyways, here's the population within 400m actual walk distance and within 400-800m walk distance of various main streets in Calgary; Marda Loop is ~11K or so within 800m. The one note I'd have is that about half of Kensington's 400-800m population are residents of West Downtown who might not normally be thought of as Kensington residents. Marda Loop is more comparable to other pre-80s suburban high streets (16th Ave, 17th Ave West, International Ave) than it is to the classic inner city strips.
