Grande Prairie.
Resourceful Spirit, Growing Opportunity.
Compared with the provincial average, people in Grande Prairie tend to be younger, better-paid but are less university educated. There is a large blue-collar workforce and a high Métis population.
(metro pop. 85,485)
Grande Prairie is a city of well-to-do families. The median age at 34 is three years younger than the provincial average and seven years younger than the Canadian average. The median household income at $114k is $21k higher than other Albertans and $44k higher than other Canadians. Only 44% of households in Grande Prairie make less than $100k per year, compared with 67% of all Canadians. The percentage of those making more than $200k per year is more than twice the national average.
People in Grande Prairie tend to be less educated than the rest of the province or the country. Only 15% of eligible people in Grande Prairie have a university degree, compared with 29% across Canada. Vocations are fairly split among the top four industries: energy, construction and retail industries dominate employment and are marginally larger than national or provincial averages.
The largest visible minority populations in Grande Prairie are Filipino, Black and South Asian; however, those rates are generally lower than averages elsewhere in the country except for Filipinos. Those immigrating from the Philippines represent higher than national or provincial averages by nearly 10%.
Nearly 10% of those in Grande Prairie identify as Indigenous, which is significantly higher than the 6.5% provincial average and the 5% national average. Of those with Indigenous identity in Grande Prairie, 59% are Métis, compared with only 45% across the province and 36% across the country. Although Métis represents a large portion of the Indigenous population in Grande Prairie, the largest Indigenous languages spoken are Cree at 83% of all Indigenous language speakers and Slavey at 17%.
