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, southeastern BC, and parts of the northwestern United States such as Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and Wyoming. 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 + Panethnic groups in Metro Calgary (2001−2021)Panethnic group20212016201120062001 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

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 CalgaryLanguage2021 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 IranianPersian 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 Totalresponses 1,465,175 Totalpopulation 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. Municipalities that participate 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

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

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).

MunicipalityMunicipalstatus CalgaryCMA CMRmemberCRPmember Population (2021)Population(2016) Population(2011) Population(2006) AirdrieCityYYY74,41061,58142,56428,927BanffTownY8,3057,851BeisekerVillageY828819785804CalgaryCityYYY1,306,7841,239,2201,096,833988,193CanmoreTown15,99013,99212,22812,039ChestermereCityYYY21,42519,88714,8249,564CochraneTownYYY34,467 25,85317,58013,760CrossfieldTownY(Formally a member)3,5992,9832,8532,648Diamond ValleyTownY5,341Eden Valley 216First Nations reserve644596587370Foothills CountyMunicipal districtY(Formally a member)23,19922,76621,25819,736High RiverCityY(Formally a member)14,32413,58412,92010,716IrricanaTownYY1,1791,2161,1621,243LangdonHamletY5,4975,3054,2112,595LongviewVillage297307307300NantonTownY2,167OkotoksTownYY30,40528,88124,51117,145Redwood MeadowsTown1,053 Rocky View CountyMunicipal districtYY(Formally a member)41,02839,40736,46134,171Wheatland CountyMunicipal district(Formally a member)(Formally a member)9,2998,7888,5518,343MD of Bighorn No. 8Municipal district(Formally a member)1,598 StrathmoreTown(Formally a member)Y14,33913,75612,30510,225Tsuu T'ina Nation 145First Nations reserveY2,7101,6431,777 Total Calgary CMA1,487,303 1,081,905 Total Calgary Metropolitan Region1,589,775 1,144,205

See also Calgary Calgary-Edmonton Corridor Edmonton metropolitan region Census Metropolitan Area https://www.calgarymetroregion.ca/

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