The amount of people living in Prince George has grown 3.7 % in the last five years.
According to Stats Canada, Prince George’s population is 76,708, up from 74,003 in 2016.
BC’s population saw a 7.6% increase, the third biggest jump in the country, following the Yukon (12.1%) and Prince Edward Island (8.0%).
The census shows there are 5,000,879 people now living in BC, compared to 4,648,055 five years ago.
Around 1.8 million people called Canada their new home in the last five years, a 5.2% increase from 2016.
Canada’s population is estimated to be just under 37-million people (36,991,981), an increase of 5 % from 35,151,728 in the previous report.
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