Slow growth the norm
In a trend seen throughout Ontario, Orillia has experienced little growth over the past five years.
The Sunshine City`s population rose 1.1% ` a mere 327 people ` since 2006, according to Statistics Canada.
Orillia`s population in 2011 was 30,586, while in 2006, it was 30,259.
`Part of the trend over the last few years in Ontario, with the economic downturn, (is) people have been going where the jobs are,` Dan Landry, Orillia`s manager of economic development, said Wednesday. `We`re kind of in the same boat as everyone there.`
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