2025 Alberta municipal censuses
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 Distribution of Alberta's 260 urban municipalities |
Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses.[1] Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as to better inform municipal service planning and provision, inform an electoral boundary review, or to simply update their populations since the last federal census.[2][3]
Alberta began the year of 2025 with 340 municipalities.[4] Of these, eight conducted a municipal census in 2025 including four cities, one specialized municipality, two municipal districts, and one village.[5]
Municipal census results
The following summarizes the results of those 2025 municipal censuses published to date.
| 2025 municipal census summary[5] | 2021 federal census comparison[6][7] | Previous municipal census comparison[8][9][10][11] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipality | Status | Census date |
2025 pop. |
2021 pop. |
Absolute growth |
Absolute change |
Annual growth rate |
Prev. pop. |
Prev. census year |
Absolute growth |
Annual growth rate |
| Airdrie | City | April 1, 2025 | 90,044 | 74,100 | 15,944 | 21.5% | 5.0% | 85,805 | 2024 | 4,239 | 4.9% |
| Camrose | City | April 14, 2025 | 19,984 | 18,772 | 1,212 | 6.5% | 1.6% | 18,044 | 2016 | 1,940 | 1.1% |
| Chestermere | City | May 1, 2025 | 32,255 | 22,163 | 10,092 | 45.5% | 9.8% | 28,129 | 2024 | 4,126 | 14.7% |
| Delia | Village | March 20, 2025 | 219 | 152 | 67 | 44.1% | 9.6% | 198 | 1992 | 21 | 0.3% |
| Northern Sunrise County | Municipal district | May 1, 2025 | 1,753 | 1,711 | 42 | 2.5% | 0.6% | 1,933 | 2013 | −180 | −0.8% |
| Wetaskiwin | City | May 1, 2025 | 13,409 | 12,594 | 815 | 6.5% | 1.6% | 12,621 | 2014 | 788 | 0.6% |
| RM of Wood Buffalo | Specialized municipality | April 1, 2025 | 78,979 | 72,326 | 6,653 | 9.2% | 2.2% | 75,555 | 2021 | 3,424 | 1.1% |
| Woodlands County | Municipal district | May 1, 2025 | 5,254 | 4,558 | 696 | 15.3% | 3.6% | 4,612 | 2014 | 642 | 1.2% |
See also
References
- ↑ "Municipal Government Act: Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000 Chapter M-26 (Office Consolidation)" (PDF). Alberta Queen's Printer. June 21, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- ↑ Municipal Census Manual: Requirements and Guidelines for Conducting a Municipal Census (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. January 2019. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4601-4308-7. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- ↑ "County of Grande Prairie 2024 Municipal Census FAQs: Why did the County conduct a municipal census in 2024?". County of Grande Prairie No. 1. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
- ↑ "2025 Municipal Codes" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. April 4, 2025. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
- 1 2 "2025 Municipal Affairs Population List" (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. ISBN 978-1-4601-6457-0. Retrieved March 7, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Alberta". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Population and dwelling count amendments, 2021 Census". Statistics Canada. December 1, 2023.
- ↑ "Official Population List 1996" (PDF) (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. October 1, 1996. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ↑ 2016 Municipal Affairs Population List (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. ISBN 978-1-4601-3127-5. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
- ↑ 2019 Municipal Affairs Population List (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. December 2019. ISBN 978-1-4601-4623-1. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- ↑ 2024 Municipal Affairs Population List (PDF). Alberta Municipal Affairs. February 6, 2025. ISBN 978-1-4601-6200-2. Retrieved February 16, 2025.