Mayor Matthew Shoemaker says latest estimates from Statistics Canada show a healthy boost, driven by immigration, internal migration and non-permanent residents
The most recent census data released by Statistics Canada shows Sault Ste. Marie experienced a significant spike in population in the 2023 calendar year.
If the latest estimate is correct, it means the city's population is at its highest recorded level since 1996, when confirmed census data put the number at 80,054. By the next census in 2001, the population in the city had dropped to 74,566. The municipality focused on attracting and retaining skilled workers to Sault Ste. Marie through programs like the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot and through the hiring of a labour force development officer at city hall.
Those investments, as well as a post-pandemic shift to flexibility in work schedules, appear to have paid dividends in the number of people who have decided to relocate to the Sault.
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