City of Surrey 2020-2024 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 both South and North Surrey’s growth rate have been the two highest at 3.0% and 2.4%, respectively . In the next five years, it is expected that the average annual growth rate in North Surrey (3.3%) will exceed that of South

Surrey (3.1%), due to the increasing density in North Surrey’s City Centre area. Surrey’s population at the end of 2019

Numbers for 2020 - 2024 are projected Source: City of Surrey Planning & Development Department

comprised approximately 21.5% of the population of Metro Vancouver. Over the next five years this will rise to 22.4%, as Surrey’s share of regional population growth in this time period is expected to be approximately 42%. Based on Statistics Canada’s 2016 census for percentage growth from 2011 to 2016, Surrey ranked in the top 10 in Canada for municipalities with a 2011 population greater than 100,000, having grown by 10.6% between 2011 and 2016. Edmonton was first with a total growth of 14.8% and was followed by Brampton with a total growth of 13.3%. In the Province of B.C., only the Township of Langley had a higher percentage growth than Surrey at 12.6%. Vancouver’s population, in comparison, grew by 4.6% from 2011 to 2016 and Burnaby’s population grew by 4.3%.

Source: Statistics Canada 2016 Census Profile

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