There are now more than 10,000 people living in the Town of Blackfalds.

The exact number according to this year's census, is 10,125.

It's enough for Blackfalds to seek city status, but that isn't something the town plans on doing, said Mayor Richard Poole.

“Before we move forward on that, we have to have a discussion in council. We’d consider administration’s recommendations and our stakeholders, businesses and chamber of commerce to see if there were advantages before we made that move. At this point, nobody has suggested that we’re going to move there,” Poole said.

The mayor said he has yet to see any real advantage to becoming a city.

“It would be administration’s job to look it up and find out if there were real, significant advantages. We have communities in Alberta that are 25,000 and still towns,” he said.

Blackfalds’ population grew by 2.1 per cent, slower than last year but still faster than the provincial average of 0.9 per cent.

Half of residents are between the age of 21 and 55, with the fastest growing age group those 56 years and older, a stat which Poole said shaped the town’s decision to plan housing for aging people.

Blackfalds population has doubled since 2007 and Poole said the town has handled growth well.

“We’ve provided new facilities. We’ve provided new business opportunities. We’ve made sure that we’ve kept up with ongoing issues such as water and wastewater, making sure those are taken care of and we can grow far into the future without any difficulty,” he said.

“We have annexed a fair amount of land still so we can grow out to the east for a fair distance.”