Composition of Migrants

This map shows the compositions of people in each region that did not live in the same city five years earlier. The colour is given by mixing the proportion of intraprovincial migrants (green), intraprovincial migrants (blue) and external migrants (red). Compare this to the corresponding map based on 2006 data. In the Vancouver area we can observe how external migration is concentrated in a ring around downtown Vancouver as well as central Richmond and Surrey. In Toronto a ring of external migration is also visible around downtown that curiously drops off right at the city boundary. Similar patterns can be observed in Montreal. Calgary paints a different picture and has much stronger components of interprovincial migration that are only just edged out by external migration. Halifax is dominated by interprovincial migration, whereas smaller regional centres like Victoria, Regina and St. John's have intraprovincial migration as their strongest component. Also compare this to the corresponding map of components of origin that looks at how many people in each region were born in the same province they live in, in a different province in Canada or outside of Canada.

Author: CensusMapper Team

Dataset: CA11F, CA11N