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Apartment growth outpaces detached houses: census

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 27 Apr, 2022 09:47 AM

TORONTO - The latest census data shows single-detached houses are still the most plentiful type of housing in Canada, but apartments and row houses are slowly catching up.

The figures from 2021 show the country's 7.8 million single-detached homes made up about 53 per cent of Canada's housing supply, down from roughly 54 per cent during the 2016 census.

🌟As it has been for many years, from 2016 to 2021, the growth of private dwellings (+6.4%) in Canada exceeded that of the population living in these dwellings (+5.4%). https://t.co/qdoK2VKALI pic.twitter.com/p2SeqH07JD
— Statistics Canada (@StatCan_eng) April 27, 2022

Statistics Canada says the share of the country's housing stock represented by apartments with more than five storeys increased to 10.7 per cent last year from 9.9 per cent in 2016.

Apartments with fewer than five storeys edged up slightly to 18.3 per cent in 2021 from 18 per cent in 2016.

Row houses experienced a slight uptick, rising from 6.3 per cent of the housing supply in 2016 to 6.5 per cent last year.

Statistics Canada senior analyst Jeff Randle says apartments and other housing types are likely seeing more growth than single-detached homes because space is at a premium in many regions and housing prices are soaring beyond many people's budgets.

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