2026 - 2030 Surrey Financial Plan

POPULATION AND GROWTH STATISTICS

The following illustrates the distribution of the city population within each of our six communities. Over the last five years the average annual (including the City Centre) have been the three highest at 1.6%, 1.7% and 3.9%, respectively. In the next five years, it is expected that the average annual growth rate in Whalley (including the City Centre) (2.5%) will continue to be the highest in the City, due to the increasing density in North Surrey’s City Centre areas. growth rate in Guildford, Fleetwood and Whalley

Numbers for 2026 - 2030 are projected Source: City of Surrey Planning & Development Department

Surrey’s population at the end of 2025 comprised approximately 22.6% of the population of Metro Vancouver. Based on Statistics Canada’s 2021 census for population percentage growth from 2016 to 2021, Surrey ranked as one of the top municipalities in Canada, having grown by 9.7% between 2016 and 2021. This compares to the provincial average of 7.6% and the national average of 5.2%.

Source: Statistics Canada 2021 Census Profile

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