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Name Specialized / rural municipality Incorporation date (town) Municipal census population (year) Population (2016) Population (2011) Change (%) Land area (km 2) Population density (per km 2) Athabasca Athabasca County Sep 19, 1911 2,965 2,990 −0.8% 17.65 168.0 Banff Improvement District No. 9 (Banff) Jan 1, 1990 8,875 (2017) 7,851 7,584 +3.5% 4.77 1,645.9 Barrhead Barrhead No. 11, County ...
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
As of January 1, 2012, there were 550 villages among the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon. Since then, Kedgwick in New Brunswick changed to rural community status [ 2 ] and New Norway in Alberta dissolved to become an unincorporated hamlet , [ 3 ...
Combined, Alberta has 73 rural municipalities comprising 63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas. [2] The 73 rural municipalities have a total population of 481,120, a total land area of 468,246.83 km 2 (180,791.11 sq mi). [3] [f] These totals represent 11% of Alberta's population yet 73.8% of its land area.
Between 2011 and 2016, the six fastest-growing CMAs by percentage growth were located in Western Canada, with Alberta's two CMAs, Calgary and Edmonton, leading the country. Saskatoon , Regina , and Lethbridge rounded out the top five in the country and each grew by at least 10%.
Distribution of Alberta's 403 hamlets as of 2023 by latest population available Hamlets in the Canadian province of Alberta are unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, specialized municipalities or rural municipalities (municipal districts, improvement districts and special areas). They consist of five or more dwellings (a majority of which are on parcels of ...
The authority to incorporate a community as a new town came from The New Towns Act, which was chapter 39 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1956. At least 12 communities incorporated as a new town between 1956 and 1967. Cynthia and Drayton Valley were the first communities in Alberta to incorporate as new towns on June 1, 1956.
Distribution of Alberta's 80 villages. A village is an urban municipality status type used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta villages are created when communities with populations of at least 300 people, where a majority of their buildings are on parcels of land smaller than 1,850 m 2, apply to Alberta Municipal Affairs for village status under the authority of the Municipal ...