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Distribution of Alberta's 269 urban municipalities
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Alberta has provincial legislation allowing its municipalities to conduct municipal censuses between April 1 and June 30 inclusive. Municipalities choose to conduct their own censuses for multiple reasons such as: to better inform municipal service planning and provision; to capitalize on per capita based grant funding from higher levels of government; or to simply update their populations since the last federal census.
Alberta began the year of 2017 with 354 municipalities. Of these, 26 have plans to conduct a municipal census in 2017.
The following summarizes the results of the numerous municipal censuses conducted in 2017.