[1] Population centres are not the same thing as urban municipalities.
For example, the city of St. Albert is legally separate from Edmonton, but they are part of the same population centre.
In the 2011 census, Statistics Canada listed 109 population centres in the province.
The below table is a list of those population centres in Alberta from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
The following is a list of communities were once designated as urban areas by Statistics Canada, but were retired after their populations dropped below 1,000 people.