Dwelling characteristics

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Housing indicators, including dwelling characteristics (as well as condominium status and structural type of dwelling), level of dwelling and neighbourhood satisfaction reported by the reference person (the person responsible for housing decisions), reasons to move from previous dwelling, and by tenure including first-time homebuyer status, Canada, provinces and territories, populations centres, and selected census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).

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Household characteristics, including household type, age group of the reference person (the person responsible for housing decisions), employment status of the reference person, visible minority status of the reference person, and degree of difficulty for the household to meet its financial needs, by tenure including first-time homebuyer status, Canada, provinces and territories, population centres, and selected census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).

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This article analyzes the income characteristics of residential property owners in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. It provides new information on owners who claimed the home buyers' amount tax credit in 2017 to offer insights on the income of first-time home buyers and their properties. This article also explores the relationship between owner income and property values, and investigates income distributions of owners in selected areas.

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Data on the income, home buyer's amount claimant status, age, sex, employment status and marital status of residential property owners, for the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia and their census metropolitan areas.

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Level of dwelling and neighbourhood satisfaction reported by the reference person (the person responsible for housing decisions), by tenure including social and affordable housing and structural type of dwelling, Canada, provinces, territories, population centres, and select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).

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Households in suitable versus not suitable housing and by condition of dwelling (e.g., dwelling requiring major repairs), by tenure including social and affordable housing, Canada, provinces, territories, population centres, and select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).

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This article provides information on multiple-property owners in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia whose usual residence is in one of these provinces. This analysis investigates the characteristics of these people and their properties. It is based on data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program for reference year 2018.

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New data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) provide more information about residential multiple-property owners in the province of British Columbia, Ontario, and in Nova Scotia whose usual residence is in one of these provinces for the reference year 2018. These data complement the previous June 2019 release of by including findings specific to residential owners with multiple properties. The new data provides information on the location of these of owners, their demographic characteristics, as well as the property types they own.

Description: Data on the number of single- and multiple-property owners, the number and the total assessment value of the residential properties they own, for the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia, their census metropolitan areas and associated census subdivisions.

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Data on the number of multiple-property owners, the number and geographic location of the residential properties they own, for the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia, their census metropolitan areas and associated census subdivisions.

Description: Acceptable housing by tenure for Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions. Includes residence on or off reserve, core housing need and household type including census family structure.

Description: Core housing need by tenure including presence of mortgage payments and subsidized housing for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Includes shelter-cost-to-income ratio, dwelling condition, housing suitability and household type including census family structure for owner and renter households.

Description: Acceptable housing by tenure for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Includes residence on or off reserve, core housing need and household type including census family structure.

Description: Family characteristics of seniors by housing indicators for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Includes age of seniors, tenure including presence of mortgage payments and subsidized housing, condominium status, value (owner-estimated) of dwelling and number of bedrooms.

Description: Shelter cost by tenure including presence of mortgage payments and subsidized housing for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Includes shelter-cost-to-income ratio, household total income groups and household type including census family structure, off reserve.

Description: Shelter cost by tenure including presence of mortgage payments and subsidized housing for Canada, provinces and territories and census subdivisions affiliated with First Nations or Indian bands. Includes shelter-cost-to-income ratio, household total income groups and household type including census family structure, on reserve.

Description: Value (owner-estimated) of dwelling by structural type of dwelling for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Includes age of primary household maintainer, presence of mortgage payments, number of bedrooms and condominium status.

Description: Value (owner-estimated) of dwelling by structural type of dwelling for Canada, provinces and territories and census subdivisions with a population 5,000 or more. Includes age of primary household maintainer, presence of mortgage payments and number of bedrooms.

Description: Dwelling condition by Indigenous identity, Registered or Treaty Indian status, age and gender for the population in private households.

Description: Housing suitability (suitable or not suitable) and dwelling condition (regular maintenance, minor repairs, major repairs), by tenure including social and affordable housing, Canada, provinces and territories, population centres, select census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs).

Description: This infographic is a visual representation of short-term rental (STR) activity across Canada, focusing particularly on the subset of STRs that could potentially be used for long-term housing. This subset of STRs is referred to as potential long-term dwellings (PLTDs), it comprises entire units listed for more than 180 days a year, excluding vacation-type properties.

Description: On average, individuals who own their dwelling report higher satisfaction with their dwelling, neighbourhood and life than renters. These differences may reflect a positive causal impact of ownership on satisfaction. However, these differences could also reflect compositional effects, such as differences in household, dwelling and neighbourhood characteristics. Using the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey, this study provides a comparison of renters’ and owners’ reported dwelling, neighbourhood and life satisfaction accounting for compositional effects.

Description: Using the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey, this study examines dwelling satisfaction as a key indicator of housing needs for older adults aged 55 years and older. It explores the associations between overall dwelling satisfaction and various dwelling characteristics, including tenure type, dwelling type, and specific dwelling aspects.

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 article uses data from the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey (CHS) to examine health, life satisfaction, and financial hardship among First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit across housing tenure (owners, renters, or renters in social and affordable housing), housing conditions, and core housing need. Where possible, estimates are presented by Indigenous identity group, gender, and age with those for the non-Indigenous population provided for context.

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The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) uses new sales data to explore property and buyer characteristics in a three-part series that focuses on Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia. As the third and final part of this series, this article examines the relationship between house prices and incomes through the price-to-income ratio of properties sold from January 1 to December 31, 2018.

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The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) uses new data on sales to explore the characteristics of properties sold and their buyers in a three-part series. As the second part of this series, this article examines the profile of buyers who purchased a residential property from January 1 to December 31, 2018, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia. New insights are provided on differences by sex, number of buyers as part of a sale, family type, first-time home buyers, and immigration status.

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The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) uses new sales data to explore property and buyer characteristics in a three-part series that focuses on Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia. As the first part of this series, this article examines properties sold from January 1 to December 31, 2018, providing new information on the geographic distribution of sales, as well as the property types, sale prices and living areas of properties sold.

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This infographic presents a portrait of renter households living in social and affordable housing based on the results of the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey.

Description: This video introduces household and dwelling characteristics and their use in dissemination and analysis. It also presents the housing variables that are commonly used in analyses such as household maintainer, tenure, total income of household, household size and household type. In addition, the video shows the dwelling characteristics that describe the physical attributes of the living quarters occupied by the household, such as number of rooms, number of bedrooms, period of construction, dwelling condition, condominium status and value (owner estimated).

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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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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: 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.

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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 2011 Census. Each guide contains definitions and explanations on census concepts, talks about changes made to the 2011 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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This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending, which gathers information on the spending habits, dwelling characteristics and household equipment of Canadian households. The survey covers private households in the 10 provinces. (The territories are surveyed every second year, starting in 1999.)

This guide includes definitions of survey terms and variables, as well as descriptions of survey methodology and data quality. One section describes the various statistics that can be created using expenditure data (e.g., budget share, market share, aggregates and medians)

Description: This guide focuses on the following demographic variable: Housing and dwelling characteristics.

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This guide focuses on the following variable: Housing and dwelling characteristics.

Provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2006 Census. Each guide contains definitions and explanations on census concepts, data quality and historical comparability. Additional information will be included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the census.

Description: This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending, which gathers information on the spending habits, dwelling characteristics and household equipment of Canadian households. The survey covers private households in the 10 provinces. (The territories are surveyed every second year, starting in 1999.)

This guide includes definitions of survey terms and variables, as well as descriptions of survey methodology and data quality. One section describes the various statistics that can be created using expenditure data (e.g., budget share, market share, aggregates and medians).