AI Analysis: Residential property owners by immigration characteristics

Executive Summary

Statistics Canada's Table 46100098 provides a detailed portrait of Canadian residential property ownership across 135 geographic regions, tracking 6 immigration status categories and 17 immigration characteristics for the 2022–2023 reference period. The dataset's 192,822 non-null records reveal a heavily right-skewed distribution of property values, with a median of 2,810 far below the mean of 152,856 and assessment values ranging from $40,000 to $7.7 million, reflecting stark geographic and demographic disparities. Outlier analysis further confirms that larger provinces like Ontario and British Columbia dominate ownership counts, while immigrant and non-immigrant ownership patterns vary significantly across regions.

Key Findings

• The dataset contains 192,822 non-null records across 135 geographic regions, covering 6 immigration statuses (total, immigrant, recent immigrant, established immigrant, non-immigrant, and unspecified) and 17 immigration characteristics including admission categories and regions of birth.
• Property value distribution is strongly right-skewed, with a median of 2,810 versus a mean of 152,856 and a maximum of 7,700,000, indicating a small number of very high-value records pulling the average upward significantly.
• Dollar-denominated assessment values represent the largest segment of the dataset at 90,284 records, ranging from $40,000 to $7,700,000, highlighting wide geographic and demographic variation in residential property wealth.
• Nine data points were flagged as statistical outliers using z-scores (|z| > 2), with larger provinces — most likely Ontario and British Columbia — dominating property owner counts and appearing as outliers relative to smaller provinces and territories.
• The interquartile range of 169,943 captures the middle 50% of values, while the full range spans 7.7 million, underscoring extreme variability across the dataset's four units of measure: Number, Percent, Dollars, and Years.
• Property ownership is segmented into three categories — total owners, single-property owners, and multiple-property owners — across 8 estimate types including owner counts, proportions, average/median assessment values, family income, and owner age.
• The dataset is updated annually and was last updated by Statistics Canada on March 31, 2026, with the current analysis limited to a single 2022–2023 reference period, restricting multi-year trend analysis.