Town of Banff

Community Measures

Melissa's Road Race Photo: Don Lee

Community Measures is an annual report that shows progress made towards the achieving the goals in the Banff Community Plan.

Key indicators are measured in three focus areas of environmental management, social well-being and the economy. The report is tracking the community’s performance year over year, with 2008, the year the Community Plan was adopted, as the base year.

2010 Community Measures

Generally, performance in 2010 was flat compared to 2009 trends. Consumption was slightly up, commercial and infrastructure development was up, and visitation levels flat. 2010 is the first year of reporting on recyclables diverted from the landfill, which showed a positive trend.

For comparison purposes, the 2009 Community Measures are available here.

For your convenience, this 2010 Community Measures report is available as a pdf here. 

Learn more:

• Waste & Diversion
  
• Energy & Water Use
• Transportation
• Housing
• Recreation & Cultural Facilities
• Community Development, Social Programs and Services
• Character & Heritage
• Visitor Experience
• Community Infrastructure
• Development

Visitor Adjusted Population

Banff’s full time residential population for 2010 was 8,721 based on the 2007 census. However, many municipal services are impacted heavily by the visiting population of more than 3 million annually. A visitor adjusted population of 23,779 for 2010 includes a percentage of annual visitation in the calculations and is used in some indicators to reflect a more accurate performance. The visitor adjusted population for 2009 was 23,675.

The Town of Banff communications department compiles the indicator information and prepares the report. For further information contact Communications at 403.762.1207.