- Medicine Hat & Area Facts
- Interesting Facts
- Medicine Hat Utilities
- Medicine Hat Population
- Our Community
- Retails Sales vs Population
- Cost Of Living
- Sales Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retail Sales Vs Population

	2001	2006	Percentage Change
Medicine Hat Population	51,249	56,996	11.2%
Alberta Population	2,974,807	3,290,350	10.6%
Canadian Population	30,007,094	31,612,897	5.4%
Medicine Hat Retail Sales	$884M	$1,289M	52.7%
Alberta Retail Sales	$34,560M	$55,942M	68.2%
Canada Retail Sales	$300,488M	$389,485M	29.6%

 

Cost of Living:
In 2007 the Alberta Government published the 2007 Alberta Spatial Price Survey which compares the cost of living in Alberta’s cities.  The value of the index was generally established at 100.  An index with a value greater than 100 indicates prices higher than the base price.

For all commodities Medicine Hat received a rate of 93.3 in 2007 which is down from the 2005 rate of 97.7.  Medicine Hat scored 100.7 when considering food indices in 2007.  The increase appears to come from Frozen and packaged food and Restaurant Meals.  Personal Care Products increased from 95.9 in 2005 to 100.8 in 2007.  The cost of clothing saw the largest decrease of 7.6 from 100 to 92.4.