Calgary Metropolitan Region

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Calgary Metropolitan Region
Downtown Calgary 2020-4.jpg
Calgary Metropolitan Region Board Members.svg
Member municipalities of the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board
Calgary Metropolitan Region Locator.svg
Location of the region in Alberta
Coordinates: 51°0′N114°0′W / 51.000°N 114.000°W / 51.000; -114.000
Country Canada
Province Alberta
Area
 (2016) [1]
   CMA 5,107.55 km2 (1,972.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2016) [1]
   CMA
1,392,609
   CMA density272.5/km2 (706/sq mi)
GDP
   CMA CA$103 billion (2020) [2]
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
Area code(s) 403, 587, 825, 368

The Calgary Metropolitan Region (CMR), also commonly referred to as the Calgary Region, is a conglomeration of municipalities centred on Calgary, the largest city in Alberta.

Contents

With the Government of Alberta's establishment of the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB) in 2017, the CMR's boundaries were legislated to include the City of Calgary, Foothills County to the south, Rocky View County to the west, north, and east, and a western portion of Wheatland County further to the east. [3] Also within these boundaries are the cities of Airdrie and Chestermere, seven towns: Cochrane, Crossfield, Diamond Valley, High River, Irricana, Okotoks, and Strathmore, two villages: Beiseker and Longview, and two First Nations communities: Tsuu T'ina 145 and Eden Valley 216. Not all of these, however, are administrative members of the CMRB.

The Calgary census metropolitan area (CMA) as delineated by Statistics Canada is smaller than the CMR. The Calgary CMA includes Calgary, Rocky View County, Airdrie, Beiseker, Chestermere, Cochrane, Crossfield, Irricana, and Tsuu T'ina 145.

The Calgary Metropolitan Region is a major transportation hub for southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, eastern British Columbia, and parts of the northern United States. It is home to the Calgary International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in Canada in terms of total aircraft movements. [4]

Calgary CMA

The Calgary CMA, as defined by Statistics Canada, includes the following nine municipalities: [5] [6] [7]

In the 2011 Census, the Calgary CMA had a population of 1,214,839 living in 464,001 of its 488,451 total dwellings, a 12.6% change from its 2006 population of 1,079,310, making it the largest CMA in Alberta and the fourth largest in Canada. With a land area of 5,107.55 km2 (1,972.04 sq mi), it had a population density of 237.9 people per square kilometre in 2011. [8]

Also in terms of area, the Calgary CMA makes up approximately 40% of Statistics Canada's Division No. 6 in Alberta. [9] [10] The balance of Division No. 6 includes the census consolidated subdivisions of the MD of Foothills No. 31 to the south and Mountain View County to the north. [11]

Foothills County and the municipalities within are often considered as part of Calgary's metropolitan area due to, among other things, the MDs shared boundary with the City of Calgary and the bedroom community nature of towns like Okotoks, High River, and Diamond Valley

Demographics

Ethnicity

Panethnic groups in Metro Calgary (2001−2021)
Panethnic group2021 [12] [13] 2016 [14] 2011 [15] 2006 [16] 2001 [17]
Pop. %Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%Pop.%
European [lower-alpha 1] 849,560869,555828,330805,825756,500
South Asian 153,200122,90084,87057,70036,855
Southeast Asian [lower-alpha 2] 117,44593,90071,24541,32028,940
East Asian [lower-alpha 3] 112,825106,24089,34577,88559,585
African 75,64554,19032,98521,06013,665
Indigenous 48,62541,64533,37026,57521,915
Middle Eastern [lower-alpha 4] 48,18039,13025,76517,67011,390
Latin American 34,39027,71020,59513,4108,605
Other/Multiracial [lower-alpha 5] 26,26519,38512,6208,8405,865
Total responses1,465,1801,374,6501,199,1251,070,295943,310
Total population1,481,8061,392,6091,214,8391,079,310951,395
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses

Language

The question on knowledge of languages allows for multiple responses. The following figures are from the 2021 Canadian Census, and lists languages that were selected by at least 1,000 respondents.

Knowledge of languages in Metro Calgary
Language 2021 [18]
Pop. %
English 1,430,255
French 98,320
Oromo 2,115
Somali 2,430
Amharic 8,450
Arabic 34,975
Hebrew 2,065
Tigrigna 7,655
Khmer
(Cambodian)
1,255
Vietnamese 19,290
Bisaya,
n.o.s.
1,115
Cebuano 3,530
Hiligaynon 1,365
Ilocano 6,560
Indonesian 1,250
Pampangan
(Kapampangan,
Pampango)
1,145
Tagalog 70,230
Kannada 1,085
Malayalam 3,850
Tamil 4,425
Telugu 2,425
Albanian 1,865
Bulgarian 1,015
Czech 2,130
Polish 9,110
Russian 15,020
Serbo-Croatian 6,600
Slovak 1,440
Ukrainian 4,620
German 16,305
Afrikaans 2,070
Dutch 4,540
Danish 1,075
Greek 2,335
Bengali 6,140
Gujarati 11,115
Hindi 44,965
Kacchi 2,320
Marathi 2,290
Nepali 2,925
Punjabi 68,240
Sinhala 1,380
Urdu 31,625
Kurdish 1,420
Dari 4,760
Iranian
Persian
6,960
Italian 9,510
Portuguese 6,780
Romanian 5,875
Spanish 58,975
Japanese 5,155
Korean 12,225
Akan
(Twi)
1,395
Igbo 3,030
Swahili 3,405
Yoruba 6,335
Mandarin 46,240
Min Nan
(Chaochow, Teochow,
Fukien, Taiwanese)
2,380
Cantonese 42,805
Thai 1,300
Turkish 2,600
Hungarian 3,665
Total
responses
1,465,175
Total
population
1,481,806

Calgary Metropolitan Region Board

The Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB) was legislated through the enactment of the CMRB Regulation in 2017, and will be officially established on its effective date of January 1, 2018. [3] Municipalities that will be participating as members of the CMRB include the cities of Airdrie, Calgary, and Chestermere, the towns of Cochrane, Okotoks, High River and Strathmore, the MD of Foothills No. 31, Rocky View County, and Wheatland County. [19]

Calgary Regional Partnership

Founded in 1999, [20] the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) is a cooperative between 15 urban municipalities in the greater Calgary area that deals with regional growth and planning issues. [21] The CRP's motto is Thinking regionally... acting locally... [21]

Membership

The CRP's current membership includes three cities (Airdrie, Calgary, and Chestermere), eight towns (Banff, Canmore, Cochrane, Diamond Valley, Irricana, Nanton, Okotoks, and Strathmore, and one townsite (Redwood Meadows). [21] [22] Of these thirteen municipalities, four of the ten towns (Banff, Canmore, Nanton, and Strathmore) are outside, but in proximity to, the Calgary Region's boundaries as defined in this article. Of the remaining six towns, two of them (Diamond Valley, and Okotoks) are outside the Calgary CMA boundaries as defined by Statistics Canada.

Past members

Membership in the CRP once consisted of the four municipal districts and two additional towns. These included the MD of Bighorn No. 8, the MD of Foothills No. 31, Rocky View County, Wheatland County and the towns of Crossfield and High River. The MD of Bighorn No. 8 pulled out of the CRP in March 2009 due to the lack of opportunity for infrastructure connectivity to the balance of the Calgary Region. [23] In June 2009, the latter three opposed the Calgary Metropolitan Plan that was being considered for approval by the CRP's member municipalities. [24] [25] All three subsequently withdrew from the CRP in September 2009. [25] [26] [27] Crossfield and High River withdrew from the CRP in December 2011 and April 2013 respectively citing concerns that the CRP was becoming another layer of government. [28] [22]

In an attempt to bring the MD of Foothills No. 31 and Rocky View County back to the CRP, Alberta's Minister of Municipal Affairs, Doug Griffiths, requested that the two municipal districts and the CRP engage in mediation. [29] All parties agreed to participate and the mediation process has since concluded with a report delivered to Minister Griffiths for review and decision. [30]

List of municipalities

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Calgary
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Okotoks

The following list provides the overlapping memberships or enumerations of municipalities in the greater Calgary area that are part of some, or all, of the designations: Calgary Metropolitan Region (CMR); Calgary census metropolitan area (CMA); or the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP).

MunicipalityMunicipal
status  [31]
Calgary
CMA  [32]
CMR
member
CRP
member  [21] [22]
Population

(2021)

Population
(2016)  [33]
Population
(2011)  [34]
Population
(2006)  [35]
Airdrie CityYYY74,41061,58142,56428,927
Banff TownY8,3057,851
Beiseker VillageY828819785804
Calgary CityYYY1,306,7841,239,2201,096,833988,193
Canmore City15,99013,99212,22812,039
Chestermere CityYYY21,42519,88714,8249,564
Cochrane TownYYY34,46725,85317,58013,760
Crossfield TownY(Formally a member)3,5992,9832,8532,648
Diamond Valley TownY5,341
Eden Valley 216 First Nations reserve644596587370
Foothills County Municipal districtY(Formally a member)23,19922,76621,25819,736
High River CityY(Formally a member)14,32413,58412,92010,716
Irricana TownYY1,1791,2161,1621,243
Langdon HamletY5,4975,3054,2112,595
Longview Village297307307300
Nanton TownY2,167
Okotoks TownYY30,40528,88124,51117,145
Redwood Meadows Town1,053
Rocky View County Municipal districtYY(Formally a member)41,02839,40736,46134,171
Wheatland County Municipal district(Formally a member)(Formally a member)9,2998,7888,5518,343
MD of Bighorn No. 8 Municipal district(Formally a member)1,598
Strathmore Town(Formally a member)Y14,33913,75612,30510,225
Tsuu T'ina Nation 145 First Nations reserveY2,7101,6431,777
Total Calgary CMA1,487,3031,397,9141,219,0501,081,905
Total Calgary Metropolitan Region1,589,7751,482,8871,295,4781,144,205

See also

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