Statistics Canada has just released its
population estimates for sub-provincial areas as of July 1, 2019 and it appears that Thunder Bay's population - while one of the slowest growing of Canada's CMAs - is nevertheless growing. On July 1st 2019, Thunder Bay's Census Metropolitan Area reported 127,201 people which is an increase over the previous year of 0.7 percent. Of the 36 major CMAs, Thunder Bay ranked 32nd and its growth rate was larger than the other major northern Ontario city on the list - Sudbury - which came in at 0.4 percent. Population growth rates ranged from a high of 2.8 percent for Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo to a low of -0.1 percent for St. John's with the Canadian CMA average being 1.7 percent. The accompanying chart presents the population growth rate rankings for all of the CMAs. So, as far as things demographic go, this is pretty go news. Thunder Bay is not shrinking.
