Calgary Region

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This article is about the metropolitan area surrounding and including the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. For other places called, see Calgary (disambiguation).

The Calgary Region is the metropolitan area based around Calgary, Alberta. The borders of this area are defined differently for each of the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and the Calgary Region. The area is a major transportation hub for southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, eastern British Columbia, and parts of the northern United States. It is served by the Calgary International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in the country (by passenger movements).

Unlike many major urbanized areas, Calgary developed as a "unicity" having incorporated most of its suburbs into the city proper. In the past, when the city limits reached the borders of neighbouring municipalities, they were simply annexed into the population of Calgary. Therefore, the vast majority of the region's 1.2 million residents actually lives within the City of Calgary (proper) whose civic population itself has well surpassed the 1,000,000 mark.

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[edit] Calgary's census metropolitan area

The Census Metropolitan Area is the definition Statistics Canada uses to determine the demographics of greater Calgary (this is the same for other large Canadian cities). The CMA's boundary takes in the City of Calgary along with the Municipal District of Rocky View and all the municipalities enclosed within the MD of Rocky View—these include the City of Airdrie, the Town of Cochrane, the Town of Chestermere and the village of Beiseker. Rocky View also includes a number of unincorporated hamlets such as Springbank and Bragg Creek. The Calgary CMA is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the country and the largest in Alberta. In 2007, Statistics Canada estimated the population of the CMA to be 1,139,100. The land area of this region is 5,083 square kilometres (1,962.6 sq mi)

[edit] Alberta Census Division No. 6

Statistics Canada also uses an additional area centred on Calgary, Census Division 6, for regionalized statistical purposes. It is somewhat larger than the CMA, extending further south to include the Municipal District of Foothills and the municipalities that MD encloses (most notably Okotoks) and further north to include Mountain View County.

[edit] Calgary Regional Partnership

The Calgary Region (economic region) is essentially represented by the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). The CRP is a cooperative of economically associated municipalities in the area. Since the CRP is an organization and not an area per se, not all of the municipalities within the sphere of what is effectively greater Calgary are members. Unlike the CMA, the Calgary Economic Region had an estimated population of 1,167,700 at August of 2006. The Calgary Regional Partnership includes the Municipal District of Rocky View, the City of Airdrie, the Town of Cochrane, the Town of Chestermere, Town of Okotoks, the Town of High River, and the Municipal District of Foothills. It also includes the Town of Canmore, and the Municipal District of Bighorn to the west and the Town of Strathmore to the east. The towns of Crossfield and Banff are recent additions to the CRP. Many of the communities of the CRP are also part of the Calgary Health Region. The population of the CRP is predicted to reach 1.2 million in 2008 and 1.3 million by 2013.

[edit] Municipalities of Calgary Region

Municipality CMA CRP Population Year
Cities
City of Airdrie * * 31,512 2007
City of Calgary * * 1,019,942 2007
Towns
Town of Banff * 6,700[1] 2006
Town of Black Diamond * 1,900 2006
Town of Canmore * 12,039[2] 2006
Town of Chestermere * * 11,262 2007
Town of Cochrane * * 13,760 2006
Town of Crossfield * * 2,648 2006
Town of High River * 10,716 2006
Town of Irricana * 1,243 2006
Town of Okotoks * 17,145 2006
Town of Strathmore * 10,225 2006
Town of Turner Valley * 1,908 2006
Villages
Village of Beiseker * 804 2006
Rural districts
Municipal District of Bighorn * 1,264 2006
Municipal District of Foothills * 19,736 2006
Municipal District of Rocky View * * 34,171 2006
First Nations reserves
Tsuu T'ina Nation * * 1,982 2006

[edit] Footnotes

  • ^ Does not include non-permanent population of 1,025
  • ^ Does not include non-permanent population of 3,790

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