Be well informed

Having a solid sense of a community’s economic performance is a prerequisite for making well informed business decisions. The data you’ll find in this section has been included to help you do just that.

Retail Sales

2020 2021 2022
$5.56 billion $5.94 billion $7.44 billion
Source: The Conference Board of Canada, 2023

Consumer Price Index

CPI (Consumer Price Index)

2020 2021 2022
0.6% 3.4% 6.8%
Source: The Conference Board of Canada, 2023

Development & Construction

$674.0 million 2021 non-residential building construction

Statistics Canada, 2022

$683.2 million 2022 non-residential building construction

Statistics Canada, 2022

Investment In Commercial and Industrial Building Construction

2020 2021 2022 Total Growth
$448 million $338 million $245 million -3%
Source: Statistics Canada, 2023

Real GDP

Real GDP

2020 2021 2022
$15.2 billion $15.9 billion $17.5 billion
Source: Conference Board of Canada, 2023

Total Job Growth

16.7% total job growth (2020 to 2022)