Core Housing Need
Immigrant 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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Nova Scotia — Immigrant Households (Households Tested for Core Housing Need)

  Non-Immigrant Non-Permanent Resident Immigrant Landed Before 2001 Landed 2001 to 2010 Recent Immigrants (Landed 2011-2016) Total
Nova Scotia 357,805 2,095 24,935 17,290 4,620 3,030 384,840
Cape Breton 39,740 115 865 680 100 85 40,715
Chester MD 4,275 10 275 230 35 10 4,555
Halifax 148,700 1,650 15,800 10,055 3,430 2,315 166,150
Kentville 10,400 10 570 455 80 40 10,985
Kings, Subd. A SC 8,600 15 375 310 30 35 8,990
Lunenburg MD 10,120 10 560 450 70 45 10,695
New Glasgow 14,185 15 435 320 70 50 14,630
Queens RGM 4,430 0 210 180 20 15 4,645
Truro 18,170 45 960 725 120 110 19,175
West Hants RM 6,015 10 180 135 15 25 6,195
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 immigrant household is a household with a primary household maintainer who is an immigrant. An immigrant is a person who is or has ever been a landed immigrant/permanent resident, that is, someone who has been granted the right to live permanently in Canada by immigration authorities.
  • A non-permanent resident is a person from another country who has a work or study permit, or who is a refugee claimant, and any non-Canadian-born family member living in Canada with him or her.
  • Recent immigrants are immigrants who landed in Canada between Jan 1, 2011 and May 10, 2016.
  • The primary household maintainer is the person or one of the people in the household responsible for major household payments such as the rent or mortgage. In households with more than one maintainer, the primary maintainer is the first person listed as a maintainer.