Core Housing Need
Aboriginal Households

Universe

  1. % of Households in Core Housing Need
  2. Households in Core Housing Need
  3. Households Tested For Core Housing Need

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Canada — Aboriginal Households (Households in Core Housing Need)

  Aboriginal Households Non-Aboriginal Households Total
Canada 118,500 1,575,275 1,693,775
Newfoundland and Labrador 2,305 20,190 22,495
Prince Edward Island 165 4,705 4,875
Nova Scotia 3,245 46,205 49,450
New Brunswick 1,610 26,105 27,710
Quebec 10,035 295,550 305,585
Ontario 32,265 716,050 748,310
Manitoba 13,250 37,875 51,125
Saskatchewan 11,700 40,055 51,755
Alberta 16,130 148,150 164,275
British Columbia 21,900 238,320 260,220
Yukon Territories 845 1,315 2,160
Northwest Territories 1,650 605 2,255
Nunavut 3,390 155 3,545
Notes:
  • Data include all non-farm, non-band, non-reserve private households reporting positive incomes and shelter cost-to-income ratios less than 100 per cent.
  • A household is in core housing need if its housing does not meet one or more standards for housing adequacy (repair), suitability (crowding), or affordability and if it would have to spend 30 per cent or more of its before-tax income to pay the median rent (including utilities) of appropriately sized alternative local market housing. Adequate housing does not require any major repairs, according to residents. Suitable housing has enough bedrooms for the size and make-up of resident households. Affordable housing costs less than 30 per cent of before-tax household income.
  • An Aboriginal household is one of the following: i) a non-family household in which at least 50 per cent of household members self-identified as Aboriginal people; or ii) a family household that meets at least one of two criteria: a) at least one spouse, common-law partner, or lone parent self-identified as an Aboriginal person; or b) at least 50 per cent of household members self-identified as Aboriginal people.