| Cayley | |
| Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta |
| Pushpin Label Position: | none |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cayley in Alberta |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
| Subdivision Type2: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name2: | No. 6 |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipal district |
| Subdivision Name3: | Foothills County |
| Government Type: | Unincorporated |
| Leader Title: | Reeve |
| Leader Title1: | Governing body |
| Area Footnotes: | (2021) |
| Area Land Km2: | 0.62 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 414 |
| Population Density Km2: | 672.7 |
| Timezone: | MST |
| Utc Offset: | −7 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −6 |
| Coordinates: | 50.4481°N -113.8472°W |
Cayley is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the Foothills County. It is also recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada.[1]
Cayley is approximately 73km (45miles) south of Calgary, 13km (08miles) south of High River and 1.2km (00.7miles) west of Highway 2 on Range Road 290 (former designated as Highway 2A). It is located within Census Division No. 6.
The community was named for the Hon. Hugh St. Quentin Cayley, a barrister and the publisher of the Calgary Herald in 1884, who also represented Calgary in the Northwest Territories legislature from 1886 to 1894.[2] The hamlet originally contained at least seven grain elevators; all have been demolished. Cayley is also home to a Hutterite colony and a colony school; in 2001, two Cayley Colony girls were the first students from an Alberta colony school to write provincial diploma exams and graduate from high school.[3]
Previously incorporated as a village on August 4, 1904, Cayley dissolved to hamlet status on June 1, 1996.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cayley had a population of 414 living in 166 of its 170 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 377. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cayley had a population of 340 living in 143 of its 143 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 265. With a land area of 0.48km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[6]