Population and Housing

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Signs and "official" populations numbers are sometimes let to slide if the particular municipality is hoping to still qualify for funding or competitions at a lower tier (ie 75,000-99,000 vs 100,000+).  You also get situations where Waterloo became a City with a population of 10,700 in 1948, while Milton today maintains their "Town" status with a population of 110,000.

Officially, Statistics Canada counted 104,000 people in 2016 while the City of Waterloo adjusted their "real" population to 137,400 after the Region estimated in 2017 how many students and foreign/temporary residents also lived in the City and the Region in general.