Division No. 3 is a census division in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the southwest corner of southern Alberta and its largest urban community is the Town of Claresholm.
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Census subdivisions
The following census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) are located within Alberta's Division No. 3.
Towns
Cardston
Claresholm
Fort Macleod
Granum
Magrath
Nanton
Pincher Creek
Stavely
Villages
Cowley
Glenwood
Hill Spring
Hamlets
Aetna
Beaver Mines
Beazer
Carway
Del Bonita
Granum
Kimball
Leavitt
Lundbreck
Mountain View
Orton
Parkland
Pincher Station
Spring Coulee
Twin Butte
Waterton Park
Welling
Municipal districts
Cardston County
Pincher Creek No. 9, M.D. of
Willow Creek No. 26, M.D. of
Improvement districts
Improvement District No. 4 (Waterton Lakes National Park)
First Nation reserves
Blood 148
Blood 148A
Piikani 147
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 3 had a population of 40,768 living in 14,163 of its 16,229 total private dwellings, a change of 4.7% from its 2016 population of 38,956. With a land area of 13,725.07 km2 (5,299.28 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.0/km2 (7.7/sq mi) in 2021.