Calgary Metropolitan Region

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. 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 AB, SK, eastern BC, and parts of the northern and southern United States such as Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Texas, and Oklahoma. It is home to the Calgary International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in Canada in terms of total aircraft movements and 35th busiest airport in Canada and the United States.

Calgary CMA

The Calgary CMA, as defined by Statistics Canada, includes the following nine municipalities:

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 2021 Census, the Calgary CMA had a population of 1,481,806 living in 531,062 of its 556,548 total dwellings, a 6.4% change from its 2016 population of 1,392,609 making it the largest CMA in Alberta and the fourth largest in Canada. With a land area of , it had a population density of 290.1 people per square kilometre in 2021.

Also in terms of area, the Calgary CMA makes up approximately 40% of Statistics Canada's Division No. 6 in Alberta. 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.

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

{| class="wikitable collapsible sortable"

|+ Panethnic groups in Metro Calgary (2001−2021)

! rowspan="2" |Panethnic group

! colspan="2" |2021

! colspan="2" |2016

! colspan="2" |2011

! colspan="2" |2006

! colspan="2" |2001

| European

| 849,560

| 869,555

| 828,330

| 805,825

| 756,500

| South Asian

| 153,200

| 122,900

| 84,870

| 57,700

| 36,855

| Southeast Asian

| 117,445

| 93,900

| 71,245

| 41,320

| 28,940

| East Asian

| 112,825

| 106,240

| 89,345

| 77,885

| 59,585

| African

| 75,645

| 54,190

| 32,985

| 21,060

| 13,665

| Indigenous

| 48,625

| 41,645

| 33,370

| 26,575

| 21,915

| Middle Eastern

| 48,180

| 39,130

| 25,765

| 17,670

| 11,390

| Latin American

| 34,390

| 27,710

| 20,595

| 13,410

| 8,605

| Other/Multiracial

| 26,265

| 19,385

| 12,620

| 8,840

| 5,865

! Total responses

! 1,465,180

! 1,374,650

! 1,199,125

! 1,070,295

! 943,310

! Total population

! 1,481,806

! 1,392,609

! 1,214,839

! 1,079,310

! 951,395

|- class="sortbottom"

| colspan="11" |

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.

{| class="wikitable collapsible sortable"

|+Knowledge of languages in Metro Calgary

! rowspan="2" |Language

! colspan="2" |2021

| 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 was officially established on January 1, 2018.

Calgary Regional Partnership

Founded in 1999, 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. In June 2009, the latter three opposed the Calgary Metropolitan Plan that was being considered for approval by the CRP's member municipalities. All three subsequently withdrew from the CRP in September 2009. 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.

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. All parties agreed to participate and the mediation process has since concluded with a report delivered to Minister Griffiths for review and decision.

List of municipalities

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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).

{|class="wikitable sortable"

!Municipality

!Municipal status

!Calgary CMA

!CMR member

!CRP member

!Population (2011)

!Population (2006)

|Airdrie

|align=center|City

|align=center|Y

|align=center|74,410

|align=center|61,581

|align=center|42,564

|align=center|28,927

|Banff

|align=center|Town

|align=center|Y

|align=center|8,305

|align=center|7,851

|Beiseker

|align=center|Village

|align=center|Y

|align=center|

|align=center|828

|align=center|819

|align=center|785

|align=center|804

|Calgary

|align=center|City

|align=center|Y

|align=center|1,306,784

|align=center|1,239,220

|align=center|1,096,833

|align=center|988,193

|Canmore

|align=center|Town

|align=center|15,990

|align=center|13,992

|align=center|12,228

|align=center|12,039

|Chestermere

|align=center|City

|align=center|Y

|align=center|21,425

|align=center|19,887

|align=center|14,824

|align=center|9,564

|Cochrane

|align=center|Town

|align=center|Y

|align=center|34,467

|align=center|25,853

|align=center|17,580

|align=center|13,760

|Crossfield

|align=center|Town

|align=center|Y

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|3,599

|align=center|2,983

|align=center|2,853

|align=center|2,648

|Diamond Valley

|align=center|Town

|align=center|

|align=center|Y

|align=center|5,341

|align=center|

|Eden Valley 216

|align=center|First Nations reserve

|align=center|

|align=center|644

|align=center|596

|align=center|587

|align=center|370

|Foothills County

|align=center|Municipal district

|align=center|

|align=center|Y

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|23,199

|align=center|22,766

|align=center|21,258

|align=center|19,736

|High River

|align=center|City

|align=center|

|align=center|Y

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|14,324

|align=center|13,584

|align=center|12,920

|align=center|10,716

|Irricana

|align=center|Town

|align=center|Y

|align=center|1,179

|align=center|1,216

|align=center|1,162

|align=center|1,243

|Langdon

|align=center|Hamlet

|align=center|Y

|align=center|5,497

|align=center|5,305

|align=center|4,211

|align=center|2,595

|Longview

|align=center|Village

|align=center|

|align=center|297

|align=center|307

|align=center|300

|Nanton

|align=center|Town

|align=center|Y

|align=center|2,167

|Okotoks

|align=center|Town

|align=center|

|align=center|Y

|align=center|30,405

|align=center|28,881

|align=center|24,511

|align=center|17,145

|Redwood Meadows

|align=center|Town

|align=center|1,053

|Rocky View County

| align="center" |Municipal district

| align="center" |Y

|align=center|Y

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|41,028

| align="center" |39,407

| align="center" |36,461

| align="center" |34,171

|Wheatland County

| align="center" |Municipal district

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|9,299

|align=center|8,788

|align=center|8,551

|align=center|8,343

|MD of Bighorn No. 8

|align=center|Municipal district

|align=center|(Formally a member)

|align=center|1,598

|Strathmore

| align="center" |Town

| align="center" |

|align=center|(Formally a member)

| align="center" |Y

|align=center|14,339

| align="center" |13,756

| align="center" |12,305

| align="center" |10,225

|Tsuu T'ina Nation 145

| align="center" |First Nations reserve

| align="center" |Y

| align="center" |

|align=center|2,710

| align="center" |1,643

| align="center" |1,777

| align="center" |

|- class="sortbottom" style="background:yellow; text-align:center;"

| colspan="5" | Total Calgary CMA

|1,487,303

|| 1,081,905

|- class="sortbottom" style="background:yellow; text-align:center;"

| colspan="5" | Total Calgary Metropolitan Region

|1,589,775

|| 1,144,205

Calgary Metropolitan Region

Calgary CMA

Demographics

Ethnicity

Language

Calgary Metropolitan Region Board

Calgary Regional Partnership

List of municipalities

See also

Notes

References

External links