CALGARY REGION

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 population actually lives within the City of Calgary (proper) whose population reached 1,000,000 on July 25, 2006.

Contents

Calgary's census metropolitan area

Calgary Regional Partnership

Municipalities of Greater Calgary

Footnotes

See also

External links

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 Beisker. 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 2006, Statistics Canada estimated the population of the CMA to be 1,107,200. The land area of this region is
===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.

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.

Municipalities of Greater Calgary

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	2006
Town of Black Diamond		★	1,900	2006
Town of Canmore		★	12,039	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

Footnotes

★ Does not include non-permanent population of 1,025

★ Does not include non-permanent population of 3,790

See also

★ Calgary

★ Calgary-Edmonton Corridor

★ Census Metropolitan Area

External links

★ Statistics Canada

★ Official Website of the Calgary Regional Partnership

★ Official Website Calgary Economic Development

★ Rocky View Municipal District - the largest municipality in the Calgary Region