A coordinated regional alliance representing eight municipalities across the Calgary Metropolitan Region — Western Canada’s leading inland port and supply-chain hub, with reliable access to West Coast deep-water ports, the U.S. market, and national distribution across Canada.
Where Greater Calgary has measurable scale, infrastructure, and talent depth — ready for global expansion teams.
Established supply chains, scalable industrial land, and skilled-labour depth. Greater Calgary is Western Canada's primary surface for manufacturing scale-up.
Primary processing base with value-add capacity and global export channels.
MRO capabilities, precision manufacturing, growing UAV innovation.
Inland-port logistics anchored by air cargo + North American rail.
Strategic connectivity, R&D ecosystem, growing data-centre capacity.
Open data · live public sources
Every figure here is pulled from open data published by the City of Calgary, the Province of Alberta, and the Government of Canada. Because the charts read straight from those sources, they stay current without anyone editing them.
Calgary has added roughly 130,000 jobs since 2020 — a steady climb that now barely tracks the oil price.
source · data.calgary.ca · Annual Economic Indicators iepb-ykvd
New housing units (bars) against the estimated value of permits issued each year (line).
source · data.calgary.ca · Building Permits c2es-76ed
At $130B in 2022, Calgary's economy is bigger than Edmonton's or Ottawa's — only Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver are larger.
source · open.canada.ca · StatCan GDP by CMA 36-10-0468
Where 638,655 people work (69% participation). Health care, professional services, and retail lead — energy isn't the whole story.
source · data.calgary.ca · 2021 Census Employment 8w7b-2yqx
How each of CED's priority sectors has grown since 2011 (year-end jobs). Professional & technology, health, and transportation are all up roughly 65–70%; energy is about flat — the diversification story in one row.
source · Statistics Canada · Table 14-10-0468, employment by industry, Calgary CMA
How Calgary compares
The peer group Calgary Economic Development uses. Calgary is shown in green, the US metros in navy, the other Canadian metros in grey.
Population growth in 2024 across Canada's largest metros — Calgary grew fastest of all 41 census metropolitan areas, ahead of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal.
source · Statistics Canada · Subprovincial population estimates, 2024
Each axis runs 0–100 across the peer group (higher is better; affordability is office cost flipped). Calgary's shape stays even all the way around.
source · population, GDP, CBRE tech & rent — metros.json
Population growth up the side, office cost along the bottom, bubble size is metro population. Calgary lands top-left: the fastest-growing of the nine (6.15%) at close to the lowest office cost.
source · StatCan Table 17-10-0148-01 (CA, Jul 2024 CMA) · US Census Bureau cbsa-met-est2024 (US MSA) · rent CBRE Scoring Tech Talent 2025 Fig.36 office asking rent USD/sqft/yr · Numbeo 2025 Cost-of-Living (NYC=100)
Size of the tech workforce (CBRE, 2024). Calgary's 64,600 puts it 17th in North America — and it grew faster than any other market on the continent between 2021 and 2024.
source · CBRE Scoring Tech Talent 2025 (2024 workforce)
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