Housing

Description: For many Canadian households, the home is the primary asset and means of wealth accumulation. This study examines the housing trajectories of Canadian-born racialized population groups at different ages and points in their lives, using 1996 to 2021 Canadian census data. Racialized groups are further disaggregated by birth cohort.

Description: The National Address Register (NAR) is a list of commercial and residential addresses in Canada that are extracted from Statistics Canada's Building Register and deemed non-confidential.

Description: This article is an overview of the treatment of Shelter in the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI). It describes the concepts and methodologies related to the construction of that component and briefly discusses considerations to be taken into account when using the estimates.

Description: The investment in residential and non-residential building construction represents the spending value of building construction by households, enterprises and governments for buildings, excluding the value of land. The investment data for residential and non-residential building construction gives a detailed statistical image of this activity across Canada, including the provinces and territories, and census metropolitan areas (CMA). Non-residential building construction excludes expenditure on engineering work (bridges, roads, hydroelectric power plants, etc.). The statistics are used by a wide range of economists and analysts from the public and private sectors.

Description: Percentage of households that grew fruit, herbs, vegetables and flowers for personal use, and for those that did the location of the garden, by type of dwelling. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.

Description: Percentage of households that had trees, bushes or hedges on their property, and whether trees were planted or cut down in the last five years, by type of dwelling. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.

Description: This table shows the presence of and usage characteristics of thermostats by Canadian households.The unit of measure is percent.The table is biennial.

Description: Percentage of households that had trees, bushes or hedges on their property, and whether trees were planted or cut down in the last five years. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.

Description: This table shows the main source of water for Canadian households, whether the household had had their water tested by a laboratory in the twelve months preceding interview and whether a problem had been found. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.

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Data on the number of residential property owners and their assessment value by ownership type, residency status and number of properties owned. As well as data on the number of resident buyers of properties sold in a market and a non-market sale, during the previous reference period, and data on the sale price of those properties sold in a market sale.

Description: This table contains 1812 series, with data for years 2009 – 2018 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick;… ) Prices (3 items: Current prices; 2017 constant prices; Chained (2017) dollars) Sector (4 items: Total all sectors; Business sector; Government sector; Non-profit institutions serving households sector) Flows and stocks (3 items: Investment; Geometric depreciation; Geometric end-year net stock) Assets (7 items: Total assets; Total non-residential; Non-residential buildings; Engineering construction; ...).

Description: Contributions to annual percent change in real gross fixed capital formation.

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This web application provides access to new housing prices data for Canada and 27 census metropolitan areas (CMA). The maps, charts and tables draw from information collected from respondents who provide information on Canada's new housing prices. The interactive dashboard allows users to visualize statistics on new housing prices' monthly and annual movements and on rankings by CMAs of the largest monthly price movements.

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New housing price index (NHPI). Monthly data are available from January 1981. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (201612=100).

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New housing price index (NHPI). Monthly data are available from February 1981. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (201612=100).

Description: The investment in residential and non-residential building construction represents the spending value of building construction by households, enterprises and governments for buildings.

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (37 items: Census metropolitan areas; Abbotsford-Mission, British Columbia; Barrie, Ontario; Brantford, Ontario; ...);  Completed dwelling units (2 items: Absorptions; Unabsorbed inventory);  Type of dwelling unit (3 items: Total units; Single detached units; Semi-detached units).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (38 items: All census agglomerations 50;000 and over; Barrie; Ontario; Belleville; Ontario; Abbotsford-Mission; British Columbia ...), Completed dwelling units (2 items: Absorptions; Unabsorbed inventory ...), Type of dwelling unit (3 items: Total units; Single detached units; Semi-detached units ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (67 items: Barrie; Ontario; Abbotsford-Mission; British Columbia; Census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations of 50,000 and over; Census metropolitan areas ...), Type of unit (7 items: Total units; Single-detached and semi-detached units; Semi-detached units; Single-detached units ...).

Description: With an increase in the number of international students and a greater need for affordable housing, questions have arisen about international students housing experiences. This article examines international students’ prevalence of living in unsuitable housing across municipalities enumerated in the 2021 Census of Population long-form questionnaire. The report also presents the rates of unsuitable housing for international students from different source countries and provides comparisons with Canadian-born students.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This paper looks at how extreme weather claims have impacted the insurance industry in Canada from 2020 to 2023. A specific focus is given to homeowners insurance, which during this time, homeowners insurance consumer price index exceeded all items inflation. Insurer profitability and consumer impacts are analyzed given the significant uptick in catastrophic claims. All four years analyzed ranked in the top 10 most costly claims years in Canadian history, costing billions each year. In addition, other contributing factors are explored to provide a robust overview of trends in profitability of the insurance industry.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: While many Canadians prefer to live in low-density housing, the supply of these units is linked to urban sprawl and attendant environmental and economic implications. This article examines recent trends of new housing supply and areas of urban sprawl in select Canadian cities. It also analyzes the characteristics of homeowners who live in neighbourhoods which have recently experienced urban sprawl.

Description: This publication provides insights on housing data and analysis at Statistics Canada. Readers can access in-depth information on the latest housing data released by the Agency. The series relies on both descriptive and analytical methods to analyze administrative and survey data sets that relate to housing.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This article examines the association between parents' housing wealth and the values of houses owned by their adult children. It also documents parent and child co-ownership arrangements. The article follows a previous article that examined the role that parents' property ownership played in the likelihood of homeownership for children born in the 1990s. These articles use residential property and ownership information from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program for the 2021 reference year for all provinces and territories, except Quebec and Saskatchewan.

Description: This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret housing characteristics data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.

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This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret type of dwelling data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.

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The Geographic Attribute File contains information at the dissemination block level, based Census standard geographic areas. The data available include population counts, dwelling counts, and land area. In addition, the Geographic Attribute File contains higher level standard geographic codes, names and, where applicable, types and classes. Data for higher level standard geographic areas can be derived by aggregating dissemination block level data. The dissemination area representative point coordinates are also included in the Geographic Attribute File.

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This fact sheet offers a concise overview of updated—new or modified—content for the 2021 Census of Population that is specific to the theme of income and expenditures, and housing, which includes the following topics: income and expenditures, and housing. The changes considered for these topics are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2021.

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This note provides the definition of a first-time homebuyer concept used in the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey (CHS). It also includes the methodology used to identify first-time homebuyers and provides sensitivity analysis under alternative methodologies.

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This product presents 2016 Census highlights on core housing need. Tables and a figure feature distributions, rates and multiple dimensions of core housing need from current and previous censuses for various levels of geography. A short explanation of the indicator and references to other resources as well as downloadable materials are also provided.

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This guide focuses on the following topic: housing.This reference guide provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2016 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, classifications, data quality and comparability to other sources. Additional information is included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the Census.

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The Housing Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Population Housing release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.

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This guide focuses on the following topic: Structural Type of Dwelling and Collectives variables. Provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2016 Census. Each guide contains definitions and explanations on census concepts, talks about changes made to the 2016 Census, data quality and historical comparability, as well as comparison with other data sources. Additional information will be included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the census.

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The Type of dwelling Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Population Type of dwelling release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.