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Its those row/semi numbers that are most impressive to me. We got a really good thing going on housing diversity on the low-end of the density scale.
100% agree. I like the diversity of our housing starts, it's pretty well balanced, and I wouldn't be surprised if the number of rowhome units increases by more than 50% or even doubles over 2025.
And that number is without the respective populations of Okotoks, High River, Diamond Valley, Foothills County and Strathmore. Add those in- it's probably close to 1.85M...Calgary CMA grew by a little over 100,000 between 2023 and 2024 to a population of 1,778,881 (from 1,678,702)
Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, 2021 boundaries
Annual population estimates as of July 1st, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, single year of age, five-year age group and gender, based on the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021.www150.statcan.gc.ca
The Daily — Canada's population estimates: Subprovincial areas, 2024
On July 1, 2024, the total population of Canada's 41 census metropolitan areas reached 30,893,239 people.www150.statcan.gc.ca
I think @whatchyyc or @ByeByeBaby had a cool graphic on this a while back? If I recall, the answer is not likely for a while.
Thanks for the explanation! Maybe in a few decades then... we'll see
There's still plenty of SFH going up in places like Markham, Vaughan, Milton and Halton Hills that are still part of the CMA.
I estimate 81,000 if you add up Foothills County and the 3 the municipalities within of Okotoks, High River and Diamond Valley. Strathmore should be around 15,000 right now, but TBH I think it's a little far to be included in our urban area (although if we were a US city, it almost certainly would be). Most US CMA's are at least 5,000 sq miles, often closer to 10,000 and for context the Calgary CMA covers about 1900 sq miles I believe. It's not farfetched to state that Calgary is bigger than many of the 2 million + US metros if those places used a more reasonable definition of their metropolitan area. The flip side of that, is even if Calgary's CMA was 10,000 sq mi, we'd maybe hit 2 million, because the population density of AB outside the 2 big cities is so low.
Should be sooner than that. Okotoks and Foothills are growing and much faster rates than local employment is growing.
We can't really do city comparisons to the US, they have much smaller "cities" for property tax and municipal funding reasons. For example, Boston is at 600k because they don't count Cambridge even though it's two subway stops from downtown Boston.
US cities are all over the map, even moreso than Canada, when it comes to municipal boundaries. Cities like Jacksonville, Indianapolis and Nashville consolidated their entire counties into their municipality decades ago, giving them relatively large populations of nearly a million but very low population densities (much lower than Calgary). Cities like Boston, Washington DC, Miami or Atlanta are at the other end of that scale with small municipal populations at the core of very large urban areas. Some of these cities have only 10% of their metro population within the city limits.
