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Black Canadians, numbering 198,610, make up 11.3% of Montreal's population, as of 2021, and are the largest visible minority group in the city. [1] The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean and of continental African origin, though the population also includes African American immigrants and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians) [2]
According to Statistics Canada, at the time of the 2011 Canadian census the city of Montreal proper had 1,649,519 inhabitants. [5] A total of 3,824,221 lived in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) at the same 2011 census, up from 3,635,556 at the 2006 census (within 2006 CMA boundaries), which means a population growth rate of +5.2% between 2006 and 2011. [6]
According to the 2021 census by Statistics Canada, 1,547,870 Canadians identified as Black, constituting 4.3% of the entire Canadian population. [18] Of the black population, 10 per cent identified as mixed-race of "white and black". [19]
Jamaican Canadians are Canadian citizens of Jamaican descent or Jamaican-born permanent residents of Canada. The population, according to Canada's 2021 Census, is 249,070. [2] Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian population. [3] [4]
Black people represent only 8% of the city's population but make up 34% of the unhoused. Centuries of American racism create the effects we see today.
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
Getty Images Named after the triple peaked hill of Mont-Royal, Montreal is the second largest city in the province of Quebec. Of the nearly 4 million people who live in the metropolitan area, more ...
Percentage of visible minorities by census division (2021 census) Population distribution largest panethnic visible minority group in Canada by census division, 2021 census In Canada , a visible minority ( French : minorité visible ) is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in ...