Core Housing Need
Immigrant Households

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  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 2006 Landed 2006 to 2015 Recent Immigrants (Landed 2016-2021) Total
Nova Scotia 374,875 6,695 31,745 19,025 6,215 6,505 413,315
Cape Breton 39,970 695 1,015 720 180 115 41,675
Chester MD 4,675 0 240 190 45 0 4,930
Halifax 167,050 5,095 21,880 11,575 4,775 5,540 194,025
Kentville 10,905 125 645 455 95 100 11,680
Kings, Subd. A SC 8,710 0 480 395 50 35 9,195
Lunenburg MD 10,530 0 725 550 140 35 11,265
New Glasgow 14,545 45 440 300 75 65 15,025
Queens RGM 4,620 0 280 235 40 0 4,915
Truro 18,665 225 1,010 715 150 150 19,900
West Hants RM 7,790 25 330 275 40 0 8,150
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, 2016 and May 10, 2021.
  • 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.
Source: CMHC (census-based and NHS-based housing indicators and data) (opens in new window)