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Building permits, January 2024

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The title of the infographic is "Building permits, January 2024"

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Figure 1: Month-to-month change in total value of building permits (seasonally adjusted).

This is a map of Canada by province and territory that shows the month-to-month percentage changes of total building permit value. Green arrows represent an increase, while red arrows represent a decrease.

Building permit values in Canada up 13.5% in January compared with December. Newfoundland and Labrador down 10.5%, Prince Edward Island up 72.4%, Nova Scotia up 60.9%, New Brunswick up 7.6%, Quebec up 33.3%, Ontario up 2.1%, Manitoba down 8.6%, Saskatchewan down 23.1%, Alberta up 4.9%, British Columbia up 32.7%, Yukon up 103.7%, Northwest Territories up 10.1%, Nunavut up 100.9%.

Figure 2: Building permits for residential and non-residential construction in Canada (seasonally adjusted).

Residential: The total value was up 12.6% month over month.

Non-residential: The total value was up 14.8% month over month.

Single-family dwellings: total value was $2,578 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 10.3% or $296.0 million.

Multi-family dwellings: total value was $3,953 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 35.1% or $1,026.8 million.

Industrial: total value was $822 million, representing a month-over-month decrease of 10.8% or $99.7 million.

Commercial: total value was $2,341 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 34.5% or $600.9 million.

Institutional: total value was $1,082 million, representing a month-over-month increase of 4.6% or $47.5 million.

Source: Table 34-10-0285-01, Building permits, by type of building and type of work.