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Percentage of tenant households spending 30% or more of household income on shelter costs.

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Shelter-cost-to-income ratios are reported only for tenant households whose total income was greater than zero in the income reference year.

Income is reported for the calendar year before the census and is rounded to the nearest $100.

The 2020 reference year was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related government transfers. Compare with caution across cycles.

These estimates come from the long-form questionnaire, which was distributed to a 25% sample of private households. They are subject to sampling variability and may differ from a full enumeration. Read more

To protect confidentiality, Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts up or down to a multiple of 5 or 10. Totals are rounded independently of their parts, so sub-totals may not match the total and percentages may not add up to 100%. Read more

Tenants spending 30%+ on shelter

10.6%

27.1%

39.1%

53.6%

72.7%