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Canadian housing starts trended lower in September

Ottawa, October 18, 2021

The trend in housing starts was 271,068 units in September 2021, down from 284,757 units in August 2021, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of housing starts.

“The six-month trend in housing starts declined from August to September, with total starts continuing to pull back from their earlier 2021 levels,” said Bob Dugan, CMHC's chief economist. “Single-detached and multi-family SAAR starts were both lower in Canada’s urban areas in September, which led to a decline in overall SAAR starts for the month. On a trend and monthly SAAR basis, however, the level of housing starts activity in Canada remains high in historical terms. Among Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, Vancouver was the only market not to register growth in total SAAR starts in September, due to a decline in the multi-family segment.”

CMHC uses the trend measure as a complement to the monthly SAAR of housing starts to account for considerable swings in monthly estimates and obtain a more complete picture of Canada’s housing market. In some situations, analyzing only SAAR data can be misleading, as the multi-unit segment largely drives the market and can vary significantly from one month to the next.

The standalone monthly SAAR of housing starts for all areas in Canada was 251,151 units in September, a decrease of 4.4% from 262,754 units in August. The SAAR of urban starts decreased by 4.5% in September to 223,055 units. Multiple urban starts decreased by 4% to 165,861 units in September, while single-detached urban starts decreased by 5.9% to 57,194 units.

Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 28,096 units.

Monthly Housing Starts and Other Construction Data are accessible in English and French on our website and the CMHC Housing Market Information Portal. Housing starts data is available on the eleventh business day each month. We will release the October data on November 16 at 8:15 AM ET.

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Media Relations, CMHC
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Table 1: Housing Start Data in Centres 10,000 Population and Over
Single-Detached All Others Total
Sept. 2020 Sept. 2021 % Sept. 2020 Sept. 2021 % Sept. 2020 Sept. 2021 %
Provinces (10,000+)
N.-L. 43 55 28 6 14 133 49 69 41
P.E.I. 27 28 4 21 7 -67 48 35 -27
N.S. 187 272 45 381 136 -64 568 408 -28
N.B. 130 106 -18 82 100 22 212 206 -3
Atlantic 387 461 19 490 257 -48 877 718 -18
Qc 859 765 -11 4,122 4,595 11 4,981 5,360 8
Ont. 2,053 2,090 2 5,046 5,926 17 7,099 8,016 13
Man. 178 197 11 107 522 388 285 719 152
Sask. 124 99 -20 26 446 ## 150 545 263
Alta. 781 1,125 44 1,384 1,027 -26 2,165 2,152 -1
Prairies 1,083 1,421 31 1,517 1,995 32 2,600 3,416 31
B.C. 607 715 18 2,005 1,977 -1 2,612 2,692 3
Canada (10,000+) 4,989 5,452 9 13,180 14,750 12 18,169 20,202 11
Metropolitan Areas
Abbotsford–Mission 43 36 -16 53 94 77 96 130 35
Barrie 63 100 59 6 109 ## 69 209 203
Belleville 46 29 -37 12 7 -42 58 36 -38
Brantford 50 10 -80 51 0 -100 101 10 -90
Calgary 310 484 56 725 542 -25 1,035 1,026 -1
Edmonton 333 470 41 535 433 -19 868 903 4
Greater Sudbury 14 25 79 8 155 ## 22 180 ##
Guelph 15 16 7 4 0 -100 19 16 -16
Halifax 128 172 34 348 101 -71 476 273 -43
Hamilton 8 37 363 218 43 -80 226 80 -65
Kelowna 38 70 84 49 128 161 87 198 128
Kingston 37 25 -32 187 6 -97 224 31 -86
Kitchener – Cambridge – Waterloo 87 62 -29 565 168 -70 652 230 -65
Lethbridge 34 18 -47 11 9 -18 45 27 -40
London 172 195 13 217 238 10 389 433 11
Moncton 41 39 -5 30 27 -10 71 66 -7
Montréal 318 261 -18 2,510 2,652 6 2,828 2,913 3
Oshawa 100 111 11 219 166 -24 319 277 -13
Ottawa – Gatineau 370 402 9 1,170 998 -15 1,540 1,400 -9
Gatineau 124 88 -29 301 524 74 425 612 44
Ottawa 246 314 28 869 474 -45 1,115 788 -29
Peterborough 8 18 125 6 0 -100 14 18 29
Québec 89 72 -19 661 695 5 750 767 2
Regina 38 29 -24 11 51 364 49 80 63
Saguenay 15 4 -73 16 16 - 31 20 -35
St. Catharines – Niagara 59 143 142 78 162 108 137 305 123
Saint John 36 32 -11 34 48 41 70 80 14
St. John's 32 46 44 4 10 150 36 56 56
Saskatoon 78 59 -24 9 392 ## 87 451 418
Sherbrooke 46 42 -9 160 227 42 206 269 31
Thunder Bay 13 17 31 2 0 -100 15 17 13
Toronto 654 494 -24 2,137 4,118 93 2,791 4,612 65
Trois-Rivières 17 30 76 30 120 300 47 150 219
Vancouver 257 289 12 1,559 925 -41 1,816 1,214 -33
Victoria 55 60 9 138 356 158 193 416 116
Windsor 77 33 -57 133 32 -76 210 65 -69
Winnipeg 142 163 15 73 499 ## 215 662 208
Total 3,823 4,093 7 11,969 13,527 13 15,792 17,620 12

Data based on 2016 Census Definitions.
Source: Market Analysis Centre, CMHC
## not calculable / extreme value

Table 2: Housing Start Data — Seasonally Adjusted at Annual Rates (SAAR)
Single-Detached All Others Total
Aug. 2021 Sept. 2021 % Aug. 2021 Sept. 2021 % Aug. 2021 Sept. 2021 %
Provinces (10,000+)
N.L. 509 480 -6 40 152 280 549 632 15
P.E.I. 325 274 -16 444 84 -81 769 358 -53
N.S. 1,222 2,336 91 563 1,485 164 1,785 3,821 114
N.B. 905 972 7 2,429 1,122 -54 3,334 2,094 -37
Qc 7,407 6,720 -9 39,621 46,808 18 47,028 53,528 14
Ont. 25,714 22,526 -12 73,976 68,507 -7 99,690 91,033 -9
Man. 2,839 2,381 -16 3,636 6,264 72 6,475 8,645 34
Sask. 1,483 1,067 -28 408 5,352 ## 1,891 6,419 239
Alta. 13,180 12,577 -5 16,565 12,416 -25 29,745 24,993 -16
B.C. 7,170 7,861 10 35,066 23,671 -32 42,236 31,532 -25
Canada (10,000+) 60,754 57,194 -6 172,748 165,861 -4 233,502 223,055 -4
Canada (All Areas) 80,363 76,707 -5 182,394 174,444 -4 262,754 251,151 -4
Metropolitan Areas
Abbotsford–Mission 258 343 33 312 1,128 262 570 1,471 158
Barrie 592 1,009 70 2,976 1,308 -56 3,568 2,317 -35
Belleville 423 289 -32 600 84 -86 1,023 373 -64
Brantford 486 110 -77 2,352 0 -100 2,838 110 -96
Calgary 5,770 5,133 -11 7,032 6,504 -8 12,802 11,637 -9
Edmonton 5,516 5,491 0 9,060 5,196 -43 14,576 10,687 -27
Greater Sudbury 49 166 239 24 1,860 ## 73 2,026 ##
Guelph 180 206 14 144 0 -100 324 206 -36
Halifax 300 1,415 372 132 1,212 ## 432 2,627 ##
Hamilton 575 435 -24 7,656 516 -93 8,231 951 -88
Kelowna 979 953 -3 4,428 1,536 -65 5,407 2,489 -54
Kingston 451 250 -45 168 72 -57 619 322 -48
Kitchener – Cambridge – Waterloo 953 689 -28 4,608 2,016 -56 5,561 2,705 -51
Lethbridge 288 178 -38 252 108 -57 540 286 -47
London 2,033 2,096 3 2,508 2,856 14 4,541 4,952 9
Moncton 295 316 7 2,148 324 -85 2,443 640 -74
Montréal 2,385 2,475 4 24,526 31,584 29 26,911 34,059 27
Oshawa 1,568 1,173 -25 1,752 1,992 14 3,320 3,165 -5
Ottawa – Gatineau 2,900 3,702 28 7,776 11,976 54 10,676 15,678 47
Gatineau 324 565 74 408 6,288 ## 732 6,853 ##
Ottawa 2,576 3,137 22 7,368 5,688 -23 9,944 8,825 -11
Peterborough 406 306 -25 1,896 0 -100 2,302 306 -87
Québec 583 760 30 1,620 8,340 415 2,203 9,100 313
Regina 485 371 -24 108 612 467 593 983 66
Saguenay 420 55 -87 228 192 -16 648 247 -62
St. Catharines – Niagara 1,463 1,966 34 756 1,944 157 2,219 3,910 76
Saint John 268 278 4 24 576 ## 292 854 192
St. John's 408 425 4 36 120 233 444 545 23
Saskatoon 925 681 -26 264 4,704 ## 1,189 5,385 353
Sherbrooke 572 340 -41 1,320 2,724 106 1,892 3,064 62
Thunder Bay 67 102 52 0 0 - 67 102 52
Toronto 7,389 5,875 -20 39,036 49,416 27 46,425 55,291 19
Trois-Rivières 371 256 -31 72 1,440 ## 443 1,696 283
Vancouver 2,594 3,009 16 19,800 11,100 -44 22,394 14,109 -37
Victoria 802 703 -12 6,156 4,272 -31 6,958 4,975 -28
Windsor 596 337 -43 912 384 -58 1,508 721 -52
Winnipeg 2,410 1,986 -18 3,276 5,988 83 5,686 7,974 40

Data based on 2016 Census Definitions.
Source: Market Analysis Centre, CMHC
## not calculable / extreme value

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