{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | name = Ellscott | settlement_type = Hamlet | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | nickname = | motto = | pushpin_map = Canada Alberta | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Ellscott in Alberta | coordinates = {{coord|54|30|11|N|112|54|4|W|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Alberta | subdivision_type2 = Region | subdivision_name2 = Northern Alberta | subdivision_type3 = Census division | subdivision_name3 = 13 | subdivision_type4 = Municipal district | subdivision_name4 = Athabasca County | established_title = | established_date = | government_footnotes = <ref name="council">{{Athabasca County Council|ref}}</ref> | leader_title = Reeve | leader_name = {{Athabasca County Council|reeve}} | leader_title1 = Governing body | leader_name1 = {{Athabasca County Council}} | area_footnotes = (2021)<ref name=2021census/> | area_land_km2 = 1.28 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_footnotes = <ref name=2021census/> | population_note = | population_total = 5 <!-- 2021 StatCan census population only per WP:CANPOP; do not replace with latest municipal census population count; this municipal census population count can go in the population_blank1_title and population_blank1 parameters further below and can be noted in the article body (so long as it doesn't replace the 2021 StatCan census population in the body). --> | population_density_km2 = 3.9 | population_blank1_title = | population_blank1 = | timezone1 = MST | utc_offset1 = -7 | timezone1_DST = MDT | utc_offset1_DST = -6 | postal_code_type = <!-- Postal Code --> | postal_code = | website = {{URL|http://www.athabascacounty.com/}} | footnotes = }}
'''Ellscott''' is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Athabasca County.<ref>{{AltaML}}</ref> It is {{convert|3|km}} east of Highway 63, {{convert|113|km}} northeast of Edmonton. It was named after L.G. Scott, a purchasing agent for the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boyle and District Historical Society|title=Forests, furrows and faith : a history of Boyle and districts|year=1982|location=Boyle|page=25|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3730875|access-date=2013-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924075858/http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3730875|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Demographics == {{stack|{{Historical populations | title = Population history<br/>of Lowland Heights | type = Canada | align = left | width = | shading = | percentages = | state = | footnote = | source = ''Statistics Canada''<br/><ref name=1981census>{{Canadian census unincorporated place results|year=1981}}</ref><ref name=1986census>{{Canadian census unincorporated place results|year=1986}}</ref><ref name=1991census>{{Canadian census unincorporated place results|year=1991}}</ref><ref name=1996census>{{Canadian census designated place results|year=1996}}</ref><ref name=2001census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-D.cfm?PR=48 | title=Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, and Census Divisions, 2001 and 1996 Censuses - 100% Data (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=August 15, 2012 | accessdate=September 19, 2024}}</ref><ref name=2006census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/hlt/97-550/Index.cfm?TPL=P1C&Page=RETR&LANG=Eng&T=1302&SR=1&S=1&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48&CMA=0 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2006 and 2001 censuses - 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=July 20, 2021 | accessdate=September 19, 2024}}</ref><ref name=2011census>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=1302&PR=48&S=51&O=A&RPP=25 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2011 and 2006 censuses (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2012 | access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref><ref name=2016censusABdpls/><ref name=2021census/> |1981|9 |1986|13 |1991|6 |1991{{abbr|A|adjusted}}|6 |1996|11 |2001|10 |2006|5 |2011|0 |2016|10 |2021|5 }}}}
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ellscott had a population of 5 living in 1 of its 3 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:5-10}}|10|1}} from its 2016 population of 10. With a land area of {{cvt|1.28|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|5|1.28|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=9810001201 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 10, 2022}}</ref>
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ellscott had a population of 10 living in 5 of its 6 total private dwellings, an increase from its 2011 population of 0. With a land area of {{convert|0.67|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|10|0.67|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2016.<ref name=2016censusABdpls>{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=1301&SR=1&S=45&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=48&CMA=0#tPopDwell | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Alberta) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=February 13, 2017}}</ref>
== See also == *List of communities in Alberta *List of designated places in Alberta *List of hamlets in Alberta
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