Name: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, under construction and completions in all centres of 50,000 and over for Canada and provinces
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, under construction and completions in all centres of 50,000 and over for Canada and provinces — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 34100151 provides nearly 38 years of monthly housing data (June 1988 – February 2026) across 70,565 records, tracking starts, units under construction, and completions for all Canadian urban centres of 50,000 or more. The data reveals a strongly right-skewed distribution — Key Findings

The dataset contains 70,565 records spanning 453 monthly periods from June 1988 to February 2026, organized across 165 unique data series combining 11 geographies, 3 estimate types, and 5 unit types.

Housing values are heavily right-skewed: the median is just 231 units while the mean is 3,898, with 50% of all records falling between only 39 and 1,490 units, reflecting the dominance of smaller regional figures.

Housing Under Construction has by far the largest average at 10,114 units and reaches a maximum of 348,767 — far exceeding the averages for Housing Starts (962 units) and Completions (888 units).

All three housing pipeline stages are strongly correlated, with the tightest link between Completions and Starts (r=0.951), confirming that broad economic and policy forces affect the entire construction cycle simultaneously.

No statistical outliers were detected in Canada's monthly total housing starts, which ranged from a low of 3,874 units in January 1996 to an all-time high of 23,024 units in November 2021, with a long-run monthly average of 13,232 units.

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