Overview
Calgary Demographics
Who is a Calgarian?
Calgary’s population is young, well educated, entrepreneurial, community minded, generous and well paid.
As individuals, Calgarians are family-focused, recreation lovers, that are committed to a healthy work-life balance. As citizens, Calgarians are enthusiastic supporters of community organizations: there are more volunteers per capita here than in any other major city in Canada.
What is the top priority of most Calgarians? Sustaining this city’s superb quality of life. This means ensuring the economic, environmental, health and wellness, recreational, educational and social service advantages that Calgarians have today will be here in the future.
More and more, a Calgarian is someone from somewhere else: nearly 25 per cent of Calgarians are foreign-born.
People are coming here from around the world, particularly from the United Kingdom, China, India, the Philippines and Pakistan.
More than 252,000 Calgarians – that’s 23 per cent of the population – are immigrants, which ranks Calgary just behind Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver as the first choice for newcomers to Canada.
Calgary is also the first choice of ‘second movers’: people who’ve immigrated to this country, settled and decided to re-locate after they’ve been here awhile.
Statistics
Population Distribution by Age
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