Uptowner
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I hope this is an appropriate sub-forum. I have been waiting for quite some time for the City to publish an update. In March 2013 the City released estimates saying that as of July 1, 2012, Toronto had 2,791,140 people, which put it about 84 000 ahead of Chicago. It has been over 20 months and we have not had an update from the City. Does anyone know if this is unusual based on the past decade or so? Is it due to staffing shortages? Is it because there has been no significant change so there is no real need to release an updated figure?
When the info was released in March last year in was giving an estimate for a date 8 months prior. If they were to do that now it would take us back to February this year. As Stats Can and others seem to like July 1, that probably won't happen, though, so I guess the next update will be about July 2013. Does anyone who works for a relevant department know if anything is being done on this or does an election year mean work on that kind of stuff just isn't seen as that important?
According to media reports at the time from July 1, 2011, to July 1, 2012, the population increased by 38 000. If we got the same gross numbers we would be very close to around 2.9 million now. I recently read something in the media, can't remember where, which quoted Urbanation (I think) saying that slowing population growth in the city would impact condo/house sales. That made me wonder again if there were updated figures or if they were working it out based on their own interpretation of other data.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer any insight.
When the info was released in March last year in was giving an estimate for a date 8 months prior. If they were to do that now it would take us back to February this year. As Stats Can and others seem to like July 1, that probably won't happen, though, so I guess the next update will be about July 2013. Does anyone who works for a relevant department know if anything is being done on this or does an election year mean work on that kind of stuff just isn't seen as that important?
According to media reports at the time from July 1, 2011, to July 1, 2012, the population increased by 38 000. If we got the same gross numbers we would be very close to around 2.9 million now. I recently read something in the media, can't remember where, which quoted Urbanation (I think) saying that slowing population growth in the city would impact condo/house sales. That made me wonder again if there were updated figures or if they were working it out based on their own interpretation of other data.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer any insight.
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