The mobility experiences of immigrants and the Canadian-born, and homeownership

Finally, an examination of the association between both internal migration and residential mobility and housing tenure may suggest the need for improved access to local housing information and resources for immigrants and the Canadian born in different parts of the country. [...] It presents descriptive tables and cross-tabulations comparing the mobility patterns of immigrants and non-immigrants, further disaggregating the data by place of birth and period of arrival at the national level and then for selected census metropolitan areas and census subdivisions (CMAs and CSDs) (please see Tables 1.1 to 1.15). [...] In the 1-Year period, over 90 percent of British and Italian immigrants did not move, in contrast to the 80 to 83 percent of non-movers among the Chinese, those born in India and the Philippines. [...] This can be explained by the relatively recency of arrival of the three Asian groups (see the “external” moves) and their much higher levels of movement within the municipalities (over 10 percent in the 1-Year period and over 20 percent in the 5-Year). [...] As Table A.3 in Appendix A shows, the pattern of internal moves by period of arrival is such that more recent immigrants were more likely to move within the municipality compared to earlier immigrants (in the 1-Year period, 74 percent of the most recent immigrants versus 61.4 percent of the earliest immigrants arriving before 1981; 69.7 and 60.8 percent, respectively, among the 5-Year movers).