Calgary Metropolitan Region

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The Calgary Metropolitan Region (CMR), also known as Greater Calgary or Metro Calgary is a conglomeration of municipalities centred on Calgary, the largest city in Alberta.

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.<ref name=CMRBregulation>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Calgary CMA

Template:Update section The Calgary CMA, as defined by Statistics Canada, includes the following nine municipalities:<ref name="CMAgeography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CMAgeography2011">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CMAgeography2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• three cities (Airdrie, Calgary and Chestermere);
• one municipal district (Rocky View County, which includes Langdon – the CMA's largest hamlet);
• three towns (Cochrane, Crossfield, and Irricana);
• one village (Beiseker); and
• one First Nations reserve (Tsuu T'ina Nation, which includes the Townsite of Redwood Meadows).

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 Template:Convert, it had a population density of 237.9 people per square kilometre in 2011.<ref name=2011censusCMAs>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Also in terms of area, the Calgary CMA makes up approximately 40% of Statistics Canada's Division No. 6 in Alberta.<ref name=CMAs2006>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=CDs2006>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=Div6geography>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

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Ethnicity

Panethnic groups in Metro Calgary (2001−2021)

Panethnic group	2021<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2016<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2011<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2006<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2001<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	[[Population|Template:Abbr]]	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr
EuropeanTemplate:Efn	849,560	Template:Percentage	869,555	Template:Percentage	828,330	Template:Percentage	805,825	Template:Percentage	756,500	Template:Percentage
South Asian	153,200	Template:Percentage	122,900	Template:Percentage	84,870	Template:Percentage	57,700	Template:Percentage	36,855	Template:Percentage
Southeast AsianTemplate:Efn	117,445	Template:Percentage	93,900	Template:Percentage	71,245	Template:Percentage	41,320	Template:Percentage	28,940	Template:Percentage
East AsianTemplate:Efn	112,825	Template:Percentage	106,240	Template:Percentage	89,345	Template:Percentage	77,885	Template:Percentage	59,585	Template:Percentage
African	75,645	Template:Percentage	54,190	Template:Percentage	32,985	Template:Percentage	21,060	Template:Percentage	13,665	Template:Percentage
Indigenous	48,625	Template:Percentage	41,645	Template:Percentage	33,370	Template:Percentage	26,575	Template:Percentage	21,915	Template:Percentage
Middle EasternTemplate:Efn	48,180	Template:Percentage	39,130	Template:Percentage	25,765	Template:Percentage	17,670	Template:Percentage	11,390	Template:Percentage
Latin American	34,390	Template:Percentage	27,710	Template:Percentage	20,595	Template:Percentage	13,410	Template:Percentage	8,605	Template:Percentage
Other/MultiracialTemplate:Efn	26,265	Template:Percentage	19,385	Template:Percentage	12,620	Template:Percentage	8,840	Template:Percentage	5,865	Template:Percentage
Total responses	1,465,180	Template:Percentage	1,374,650	Template:Percentage	1,199,125	Template:Percentage	1,070,295	Template:Percentage	943,310	Template:Percentage
Total population	1,481,806	Template:Percentage	1,392,609	Template:Percentage	1,214,839	Template:Percentage	1,079,310	Template:Percentage	951,395	Template:Percentage
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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.

Calgary Metropolitan Region Board

Template:Expand section 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.<ref name=CMRBregulation/> 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.<ref name=AMA>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Calgary Regional Partnership

Template:Update section Founded in 1999,<ref name=Eagle20100706>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=CRPabout/> The CRP's motto is Thinking regionally... acting locally...<ref name=CRPabout/>

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).<ref name=CRPabout/><ref name=TimesEcho20130415/> 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.<ref name=Leader20100311>Template:Cite news</ref> In June 2009, the latter three opposed the Calgary Metropolitan Plan that was being considered for approval by the CRP's member municipalities.<ref name=Times20091230>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Wheel20100106>Template:Cite news</ref> All three subsequently withdrew from the CRP in September 2009.<ref name=Wheel20100106/><ref name=RVC20090914>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Standard20090923>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name=Echo20111221>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=TimesEcho20130415>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> All parties agreed to participate and the mediation process has since concluded with a report delivered to Minister Griffiths for review and decision.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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).

Municipality	Municipal status <ref name=AMAmunicodes>Template:AltaMC</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	CMR member	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=TimesEcho20130415/>	Population (2021)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Airdrie	City	Y	Y	Y	74,410	61,581	42,564	28,927
Banff	Town			Y	8,305	7,851
Beiseker	Village	Y			828	819	785	804
Calgary	City	Y	Y	Y	1,306,784	1,239,220	1,096,833	988,193
Canmore	Town				15,990	13,992	12,228	12,039
Chestermere	City	Y	Y	Y	21,425	19,887	14,824	9,564
Cochrane	Town	Y	Y	Y	34,467	25,853	17,580	13,760
Crossfield	Town	Y		(Formally a member)	3,599	2,983	2,853	2,648
Diamond Valley	Town			Y	5,341
Eden Valley 216	First Nations reserve				644	596	587	370
Foothills County	Municipal district		Y	(Formally a member)	23,199	22,766	21,258	19,736
High River	City		Y	(Formally a member)	14,324	13,584	12,920	10,716
Irricana	Town	Y		Y	1,179	1,216	1,162	1,243
Langdon	Hamlet		Y		5,497	5,305	4,211	2,595
Longview	Village				297	307	307	300
MD of Bighorn No. 8	Municipal district			(Formally a member)	1,598
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Nanton	Town			Y	2,167
Okotoks	Town		Y	Y	30,405	28,881	24,511	17,145
Redwood Meadows	Town					1,053
Rocky View County	Municipal district	Y	Y	(Formally a member)	41,028	39,407	36,461	34,171
Strathmore	Town		(Formally a member)	Y	14,339	13,756	12,305	10,225
Tsuu T'ina Nation 145	First Nations reserve	Y			2,710	1,643	1,777
Wheatland County	Municipal district		(Formally a member)	(Formally a member)	9,299	8,788	8,551	8,343
Total Calgary CMA					1,487,303	Template:Nts	Template:Nts	1,081,905
Total Calgary Metropolitan Region					1,589,775	Template:Nts	Template:Nts	1,144,205

See also

• Calgary
• Calgary-Edmonton Corridor
• Edmonton metropolitan region
• Census Metropolitan Area
• https://www.calgarymetroregion.ca/

External links

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