Mobility
Released: May 2016
Movers: Persons who have moved from one residence to another, including migrants and non-migrants (Statistics Canada, 2016)
Non-Migrants: Persons who have moved but remained in the same city, town, township, village or Indian reserve (Statistics Canada, 2016)
Migrants: Persons who have moved to a different city, town, township, village or Indian reserve within Canada (internal migrants), or persons who lived outside Canada at the earlier reference date (external migrants) (Statistics Canada, 2016)
Mobility Status: Refers to the status of a person with regard to the place of residence on the reference day, May 10, 2016, in relation to the place of residence on the same date one year earlier at the provincial level. Persons who have not moved are referred to as non-movers and persons who have moved from one residence to another are referred to as movers (Statistics Canada, 2016).
|
Mobility status 1 year ago |
Total |
Male |
Female |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Total population |
186,115 |
90,285 |
95,835 |
|
Total - Non-movers |
159,690 |
77,415 |
82,275 |
|
Total - Movers |
26,425 |
12,880 |
13,555 |
|
Movers - Non-migrants |
15,095 |
7,420 |
7,665 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Total) |
11,335 |
5,450 |
5,880 |
|
Movers - Migrants (External) |
1,225 |
620 |
605 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal) |
10,115 |
4,840 |
5,275 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal - within province) |
8,235 |
3,900 |
4,330 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal - between provinces) |
1,225 |
620 |
950 |
Source: 2016 Canadian Census (Statistics Canada, 2016)
|
Mobility status 5 years ago |
Total |
Male |
Female |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Total Population |
178,900 |
86,565 |
92,335 |
|
Total - Non-movers |
109,320 |
53,190 |
56,130 |
|
Total - Movers |
69,590 |
33,380 |
36,210 |
|
Movers - Non-migrants |
35,410 |
17,005 |
18,400 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Total) |
34,175 |
16,365 |
17,815 |
|
Movers - Migrants (External) |
30,395 |
14,505 |
15,890 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal) |
25,025 |
11,850 |
13,180 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal - within province) |
5,375 |
2,655 |
2,715 |
|
Movers - Migrants (Internal - between provinces) |
3,880 |
1,850 |
1,920 |
Source: 2016 Canadian Census (Statistics Canada, 2016)
Please Note: The figures shown in the tables undergo what is termed 'random rounding' - which means all estimates are randomly rounded up or down to a multiple of 5, and in some cases 10. This technique does not add significant error to the data. This means that some cells that say '0', may not actually mean zero people, but could have been rounded downwards, or have too few data to display.