Official Name: | Star City |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Motto: | "The brightest little city in the west!" |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 52.8619°N -104.3317°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Star City |
Government Type: | Town Council |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Beth Baerwald |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Anita Tkachuk |
Established Title: | Post office established |
Established Date: | 1902-06-01 |
Area Total Km2: | 7.5 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 460 |
Population Density Km2: | 661.1 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0E 1P0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Website: | Official website |
Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Star City is a town of 460 inhabitants in Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately southeast of Prince Albert and east of Melfort.
It is named after its first postmaster, Walter Starkey.[2] The town's economy is based primarily on agriculture. It has numerous services and a small K-12 school.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Star City had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.7km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
The town has two historic buildings: