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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/05/2012 (5149 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
We do have a slight nit to pick with the city’s official press release on the State of the City address issued on Thursday.
In the release, it states:
“She also noted that Brandon’s population has increased significantly to now sit at approximately 52,000 people — nearly 10,000 of whom are newcomers to Canada.”
According to Statistics Canada’s 2011 census report, the city of Brandon officially had a population of 46,061, which represented a change of 11 per cent from the 2006 census. An astonishing growth rate, which compares favourably with the national average of 5.9 per cent, but it falls short of the city’s number.
We’re not entirely sure where the city communications officer got the 52,000 figure — perhaps they have their own internal figures — but it more resembles the 2011 census agglomeration of Brandon, which suggests the population of Brandon was 53,229.
Urban agglomeration, according to Wikipedia, is “an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continues urban area” — basically the area surrounding the city proper.
It’s not that we don’t want to see how the city has grown, because it has. But stats like that should perhaps be referenced.