According to Statistics Canada, the population of the Town of Vegreville is just under 5,700.
The first round of the 2021 Census of Popuation data was released on Wednesday, February 9th.
The population of the Town of Vegreville is down by 0.3 per cent from 5,708 in 2016 to 5,689 in 2021.
Beaumont was up by 19.7 per cent to 20,888, Two Hills was up by 4.7 per cent to 1,416, St. Paul was up by 0.6 per cent to 5,863, Bruderheim was up by 0.5 per cent to 1,329, and Camrose was up by 0.2 per cent to 18,772.
Several other local municipalities saw their population decrease during that 5 year period. Mundare was down by 19.1 per cent to 689, Viking was down by 9.0 per cent to 986, Minburn County was down by 5.5 per cent to 3,014, Elk Point was down by 3.7 per cent to 1,399, Lamont County was down by 3.3 per cent to 3,754, Vermilion was down by 3.3 per cent to 3,984, Innisfree was down by 3.1 per cent to 187, Lamont was down by 1.7 to 1,744, and Wetaskiwin was down by 0.5 per cent to 12,594.
According to Statistics Canada, from 2016 to 2021 most of the municipalities with the highest population growth were located within large and small urban centres, or close to them. The top 25 Canadian municipalities with at least 5,000 inhabitants with the highest rate of population growth in that 5 year period includes 2 Alberta cities – Cochrane which 11th and is up by 24.5 per cent to 32,199 as well as Airdrie which is 25th and up by 20.3 per cent to 74,100.
The population of Alberta was up by 4.8 per cent from 4,067,175 in 2016 to 4,262,635 in 2021.
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Statistics Canada says the national population almost hit 37 million last year as it grew at the fastest rate among G7 nations.
The agency says Canada’s population was just over 36.9 million on census day last year, growing by 5.2 per cent between 2016 and 2021.
The five-year growth rate was double that of any peer country in the G7, and Statistics Canada says most of the growth happened prior to the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
Statistics Canada says the main reason for the slowdown in growth was border restrictions that, while meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, also slowed the pace of newcomers arriving in Canada.
The agency says population growth was at a record high before the pandemic, and then slowed to its lowest rate in a century in 2020.
Statistics Canada says there were about 1.8 million more people calling the country home in 2021 compared with 2016, with four in every five being immigrants.
(Contains content from The Canadian Press)
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