Division No. 2, Alberta

Division No. 2 is a census division in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south-central portion of southern Alberta and includes the City of Lethbridge.

Division No. 2
Census division in Alberta
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Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Area [1]
• Total	17,662 km2 (6,819 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	178,513
• Density	10/km2 (26/sq mi)

Census subdivisions

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1991	119,110	—
1996	125,179	+5.1%
2001	133,913	+7.0%
2006	142,429	+6.4%
2011	156,536	+9.9%
2016	169,729	+8.4%
2021	178,513	+5.2%
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The following census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) are located within Alberta's Division No. 2.^[5][6]

• Cities
  • Lethbridge
  • Brooks
• Towns
  • Bassano
  • Coaldale
  • Coalhurst
  • Milk River
  • Picture Butte
  • Raymond
  • Taber
  • Vauxhall
• Villages
  • Barnwell
  • Barons
  • Coutts
  • Duchess
  • Nobleford
  • Rosemary
  • Stirling
  • Warner
• Hamlets
  • Bow City
  • Cassils
  • Chin
  • Diamond City
  • Enchant
  • Gem
  • Grassy Lake
  • Hays
  • Iron Springs
  • Monarch
  • New Dayton
  • Patricia
  • Purple Springs
  • Rainier
  • Rolling Hills
  • Scandia
  • Tilley
  • Turin
  • Wrentham
• Municipal districts
  • Lethbridge County
  • Newell, County of
  • Taber, M.D. of
  • Warner No. 5, County of

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 2 had a population of 178,513 living in 66,523 of its 70,936 total private dwellings, a change of 5.2% from its 2016 population of 169,729. With a land area of 17,456.33 km² (6,739.93 sq mi), it had a population density of 10.2/km² (26.5/sq mi) in 2021.^[2]

See also

• List of census divisions of Alberta
• List of communities in Alberta