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• 33% INCREASE IN POPULATION OVER 20 YEARS
o 2nd highest population in BC with 10% growth rate; poised to become the highest by 2041
o Current Surrey population is approx. 588,490 and is projected to increase by over 304,010 by 2051
o Approximately 1,000 new residents moving to Surrey every month
o City Centre is planned to absorb significant population and job growth over the coming decades, including:
 43,000 housing units by 2041
 49,000 jobs by 2041

• STRONG JOB GROWTH WITH 3,000 NEW BUSINESSES EACH YEAR
o 36,200 jobs can be created by 2025 at an annual growth rate of 8% by growing Surrey’s priority sectors including advance manufacturing, clean technology, health technology, agri-innovation, and creative arts.
o Over $13.7 Billion in new construction has occurred in Surrey in the past 10 years
o Additional new businesses are located in Surrey to take advantage of the rapid growth and affordable rates
 Coast Capital Savings Head Office, TD Canada Trust, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (one of the big 4 accounting firms), FINCAD are strategically using Surrey City Centre as a beachhead for growing their businesses into the Fraser Valley market, while being connected to the rest of Metro Vancouver.
 Innovation Boulevard, partnership between City of Surrey & SFU, to grow healthtech innovation and commercialization.
 Presence of Surrey City Hall and the Canada Revenue Agency located centrally in the City Centre area Is increasing the volume of government services being transacted nearby.

• TOP EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES WITH FUTURE EXPANSIONS
• Over 20,000 students enrolled at SFU & KPU Surrey campuses receiving education and training in fields including mechatronics, engineering, computer science, business, health, interactive arts & technology
• 120 Faculty of Medicine students trained at UBC teaching hospital located within Surrey Memorial Hospital
o Simon Fraser University
 Surrey campus
 School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (completed in 2019)
 Future expansion of new Health Science Innovation & Creative Technologies faculties (space will allow double the current campus capacity)
 In 2019 the provincial government announced that it would be investing over $17 million in SFU Surrey to establish a new Quantum Algorithms Institute, one of the first facilities of its kind focused on building quantum computing software and algorithms