Number of New Immigrants (00s) Table 1: Households by Period of Immigration - Canada 2001 The majority of immigrants live in large cities Number of Share of National In 2001, 86.1% of immigrant households lived in one of Canada’s 27 Households Total Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs)4, compared to 58.0% of (%) non-immigrant households (seeTable 2). [...] This would imply that recent immigrant Less than one-third of recent immigrant households owned their households are more likely than non-immigrant households to live homes in 2001, compared to two-thirds of non-immigrant households in crowded dwellings, one of the housing conditions examined below. [...] Recent immigrant households have more people A household is said to be in core housing need if its housing falls in smaller homes than non-immigrants below at least one of the adequacy, suitability, or affordability standards and it would have to spend 30% or more of its before-tax income On average, recent immigrant households contained 3.2 people in to pay the median rent of alternative local ho [...] Among renter households, 43.1% of recent immigrants were In the 2001 Census, immigrant households on average reported in core housing need, compared to 36.0% of immigrants and 26.1% $63,977 in before-tax income12, 6.3% more than non-immigrant of non-immigrants. [...] Among all CMAs, the difference in incidence of need between recent immigrant renter households and non-immigrant renter On average, immigrant and recent immigrant households had higher households was greatest in the Toronto CMA, where half of recent shelter costs than non-immigrant households, and as a result, immigrant immigrant households were in core housing need, compared to and recent immigra