Businesses with Employees: Calgary vs Edmonton

Business locations with at least one employee in the City of Calgary and the City of Edmonton, from each June release of Statistics Canada's Canadian Business Counts, 2020 to 2026. Calgary had 57,817 in June 2026 and Edmonton 40,152. Statistics Canada advises that Business Counts should not be read as a time series: each release is a separate table from the Business Register, whose methods and classifications change between releases, so a change from one June to the next is not only businesses opening or closing. Compare the two cities within a year more than either city across years. Locations without employees (the self-employed) are not counted.