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 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.

Calgary CMA

Template:Update section 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 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.

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

Panethnic groups in Metro Calgary (2001−2021)

Panethnic group	2021		2016		2011		2006		2001
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
EuropeanTemplate:Efn	849,560		869,555		828,330		805,825		756,500
South Asian	153,200		122,900		84,870		57,700		36,855
Southeast AsianTemplate:Efn	117,445		93,900		71,245		41,320		28,940
East AsianTemplate:Efn	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 EasternTemplate:Efn	48,180		39,130		25,765		17,670		11,390
Latin American	34,390		27,710		20,595		13,410		8,605
Other/MultiracialTemplate:Efn	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
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses

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.

Knowledge of languages in Metro Calgary

Language	2021
	Pop.	%
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 will be officially established on its effective date of January 1, 2018. 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.

Calgary Regional Partnership

Template:Update section 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. The CRP's motto is Thinking regionally... acting locally...

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). 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. 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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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	Calgary CMA	CMR member	CRP member	Population (2021)	Population (2016)	Population (2011)	Population (2006)
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
Mînî Thnî	First Nations settlement
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

• Template:Official website