page_title: 2012 Alberta municipal censuses
section_title: Urban and rural service areas
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 Alberta municipal censuses / Breakdowns / Urban and rural service areas
caption_attribution_description: English: Sherwood Park, Alberta
context_page_description: 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 had 359 municipalities between April 1 and June 30, 2012, up from 358 during the same three-month period in 2011. At least 58 of these municipalities conducted a municipal census in 2012. Alberta Municipal Affairs recognized those conducted by 55 of these municipalities. By municipal status, it recognized those conducted by 8 of Alberta's 17 cities, 23 of 108 towns, 8 of 95 villages, 4 of 51 summer villages, 1 of 5 specialized municipalities, 3 of 64 municipal districts and all 8 Metis settlements. In addition to those recognized by Municipal Affairs, censuses were conducted by the City of St. Albert, the Village of Beiseker and Strathcona County.
  Some municipalities achieved population milestones as a result of their 2011 censuses.
caption: Strathcona County's 2012 census revealed that the Sherwood Park urban service area's population has surpassed 65,000.
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