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Statistics

Here are the best measures for comparing cities globally known as ‘built area.’


Some quick numbers:

GTHA: 6,837,000, Density: 2,917/km
LA: 15m, Density: 2,253/km
NY: 21.3m, Density: 1,886/km
Chicago: 8.9m, Density: 1,370/km
SF: 6.8m, Density: 1,883/km

Sydney: 4.8m, Density: 2,200/km
Melbourne: 4.7m, Density: 1,635/km

London: 10.8m, Density: 6,200/km
Birmingham: 2.5m, Density: 4,200/km
 
Interesting!

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The G&M has a feature on Canadian cities and I saw this population figure for Toronto dated 2024. Is this a new figure or actually from 2023? Either way a huge increase!
 
rdaner said:
The GTA is now officially 7.1m.

The Daily — Canada's population estimates: Subprovincial areas, 2024

On July 1, 2024, the total population of Canada's 41 census metropolitan areas reached 30,893,239 people.
www150.statcan.gc.ca www150.statcan.gc.ca
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Statistics Canada has also published their estimates for the July 1, 2024 populations of census divisions and census subdivisions:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710015201 (Census divisions)

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710015501 (Census subdivisions)

Notable takeaways:

1. For most of Southern Ontario, the population growth rate from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024 is comparable to the rate from July 2022 to July 2023. The rate from 2022 to 2023 was already historically high, and the recent immigration restrictions appear to have only taken effect after July 2024, based on the estimates.

2. The estimates for July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023, which were already released, have been updated in this estimate release.

3. Toronto has a population of 3,273,119 as of the July 1, 2024 estimates.

4. Brampton has surpassed Mississauga to become Ontario's third-largest city in the 2024 estimates (791,486 for Brampton, 780,747 for Mississauga).

5. York Region grew faster from 2023 to 2024 than from 2022 to 2023, considering it had a slower growth rate than most of Southern Ontario from 2022 to 2023.

6. As a result of my second takeaway, Edmonton surpassed Ottawa to become Canada's fourth-largest city in the 2023 estimates (it was likely already on pace to surpass Ottawa in population by now).
 
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Interesting! I am curious where Canadian city regions are versus NA as we were already clearly moving away from US metros in basically every measure. My thesis is that we are closer to UK cities now and I wonder if this last year did the trick?!
 
I am beginning to hear/see that the continued divergence that was noted in the last census comparisons of NA metros will not only be even more pronounced next year but that the fact that the US Census was a year before ours thus didn’t cover pandemic trends.
 
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I am beginning to hear/see that the continued divergence that was noted in the last census comparisons of NA metros will not only be even more pronounced next year but that the fact that the US Census was a year before ours thus didn’t cover pandemic trends.
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By continued divergence, do you mean the higher growth rates of Canadian cities?
 
Kindly posted by jc_yyc_ca on SSP. While interesting I would like to see a chart of starts+completions/under construction as that would give a clearer picture of the actual units coming on stream.

Again it looks like apartment style housing is by far the largest of all housing types across all 6 markets continuing what must be becoming a long-term trend.

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