Canadian Census Maps

Explore the 2016 and 2021 Canadian Census of Population on a map.

Language

Census year

Area

For example, your home town, a Census subdivision name, or a postal code

Topic

Population by visible minority group, including those who are not a visible minority.

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“Visible minority” is a Statistics Canada term defined in the Employment Equity Act for non-white, non-Indigenous people. It does not capture how respondents self-identify.

Percentages are computed only over the population in private households, which excludes residents of collective dwellings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, prisons, and university residences. A dissemination area dominated by such a facility can have a much smaller percentage denominator than its overall population suggests.

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

Visible minority groups: Arab

1.5%

4.7%

8.9%

14.5%

18.8%