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Canadian housing starts trend higher in April

Ottawa, May 16, 2022

The trend in housing starts was 257,846 units in April, up from 253,226 units in March, 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.

“On a trend and monthly SAAR basis, the level of housing starts activity in Canada remains historically high, hovering well above 200,000 units since June 2020 and increased from March to April,” said Bob Dugan, CMHC's Chief Economist. “The increase in monthly SAAR housing starts in Canada’s urban areas was driven by higher multi-unit and single-detached starts in April. Among Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Toronto was the only market to post a decrease in total SAAR starts, which was driven by lower multi-unit and single-detached starts.”

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 clearer picture of upcoming new housing supply. 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 total housing starts for all areas in Canada in April was 267,330 units, an increase of 8% from March. The SAAR of total urban starts increased by 10% to 245,324 units in April. Multi-unit urban starts increased by 14% to 178,092 units, while single-detached urban starts increased by 1% to 67,232 units.

Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 22,006 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 May data on June 15 at 8:15 AM ET.

As Canada’s authority on housing, CMHC contributes to the stability of the housing market and financial system, provides support for Canadians in housing need, and offers objective housing research and information to Canadian governments, consumers and the housing industry.

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April Housing Starts in Canada — All areas

Table 1: Housing Start Data in Centres 10,000 Population and Over
Single-Detached All Others Total
Apr. 2021 Apr. 2022 % Apr. 2021 Apr. 2022 % Apr. 2021 Apr. 2022 %
Provinces (10,000+)
N.-L. 30 56 87 7 7 - 37 63 70
P.E.I. 29 27 -7 27 61 126 56 88 57
N.S. 93 130 40 126 47 -63 219 177 -19
N.B. 76 61 -20 154 93 -40 230 154 -33
Atlantic 228 274 20 314 208 -34 542 482 -11
Qc 940 719 -24 4,742 4,679 -1 5,682 5,398 -5
Ont. 2,425 1,894 -22 5,490 4,188 -24 7,915 6,082 -23
Man. 286 157 -45 175 386 121 461 543 18
Sask. 164 156 -5 201 368 83 365 524 44
Alta. 1,362 1,413 4 1,442 2,058 43 2,804 3,471 24
Prairies 1,812 1,726 -5 1,818 2,812 55 3,630 4,538 25
B.C. 779 914 17 2,240 3,361 50 3,019 4,275 42
Canada (10,000+) 6,184 5,527 -11 14,604 15,248 4 20,788 20,775 0
Metropolitan Areas
Abbotsford-Mission 20 56 180 32 147 359 52 203 290
Barrie 21 97 362 111 153 38 132 250 89
Belleville 42 27 -36 18 4 -78 60 31 -48
Brantford 20 18 -10 16 76 375 36 94 161
Calgary 564 609 8 735 902 23 1,299 1,511 16
Edmonton 587 619 5 642 1,048 63 1,229 1,667 36
Greater Sudbury 24 11 -54 0 6 ## 24 17 -29
Guelph 34 15 -56 99 0 -100 133 15 -89
Halifax 28 81 189 88 18 -80 116 99 -15
Hamilton 176 35 -80 342 432 26 518 467 -10
Kelowna 58 90 55 74 195 164 132 285 116
Kingston 40 11 -73 17 6 -65 57 17 -70
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 98 77 -21 803 130 -84 901 207 -77
Lethbridge 43 32 -26 12 26 117 55 58 5
London 277 101 -64 478 99 -79 755 200 -74
Moncton 31 27 -13 94 43 -54 125 70 -44
Montréal 386 248 -36 3,094 2,751 -11 3,480 2,999 -14
Oshawa 162 118 -27 112 309 176 274 427 56
Ottawa-Gatineau 342 370 8 1,216 843 -31 1,558 1,213 -22
 Gatineau 41 83 102 547 163 -70 588 246 -58
 Ottawa 301 287 -5 669 680 2 970 967 0
Peterborough 21 28 33 0 0 - 21 28 33
Québec 158 87 -45 487 900 85 645 987 53
Regina 33 32 -3 27 64 137 60 96 60
Saguenay 39 35 -10 22 44 100 61 79 30
St. Catharines-Niagara 132 110 -17 94 384 309 226 494 119
Saint John 28 20 -29 48 40 -17 76 60 -21
St. John's 27 54 100 7 7 - 34 61 79
Saskatoon 125 115 -8 174 297 71 299 412 38
Sherbrooke 63 37 -41 176 135 -23 239 172 -28
Thunder Bay 8 0 -100 4 0 -100 12 0 -100
Toronto 613 521 -15 2,189 1,521 -31 2,802 2,042 -27
Trois-Rivières 40 49 23 41 232 466 81 281 247
Vancouver 293 335 14 1,330 2,281 72 1,623 2,616 61
Victoria 93 80 -14 265 250 -6 358 330 -8
Windsor 57 57 - 126 138 10 183 195 7
Winnipeg 242 121 -50 154 359 133 396 480 21
Total 4,925 4,323 -12 13,127 13,840 5 18,052 18,163 1

Data for 2021 and 2022 based on 2016 Census Definitions.
Source: CMHC Starts and Completion Survey, Market Absorption Survey
## not calculable / extreme value

Table 2: Housing Start Data — Seasonally Adjusted at Annual Rates (SAAR)
Single-Detached All Others Total
Mar. 2022 Apr. 2022 % Mar. 2022 Apr. 2022 % Mar. 2022 Apr. 2022 %
Provinces (10,000+)
N.L. 1,500 1,425 -5 243 86 -65 1,743 1,511 -13
P.E.I. 768 373 -51 636 732 15 1,404 1,105 -21
N.S. 1,205 2,112 75 933 550 -41 2,138 2,662 25
N.B. 1,596 1,341 -16 3,780 1,271 -66 5,376 2,612 -51
Qc 7,712 7,542 -2 51,084 49,832 -2 58,796 57,374 -2
Ont. 26,144 26,509 1 58,447 52,389 -10 84,591 78,898 -7
Man. 1,319 1,749 33 5,208 4,632 -11 6,527 6,381 -2
Sask. 1,688 2,030 20 672 4,416 ## 2,360 6,446 173
Alta. 16,291 14,755 -9 14,744 24,277 65 31,035 39,032 26
B.C. 8,274 9,396 14 20,682 39,907 93 28,956 49,303 70
Canada (10,000+) 66,497 67,232 1 156,429 178,092 14 222,926 245,324 10
Canada (All Areas) 84,506 83,247 -1 163,884 184,086 12 248,389 267,330 8
Metropolitan Areas
Abbotsford-Mission 502 679 35 540 1,764 227 1,042 2,443 134
Barrie 2,522 3,049 21 3,444 1,836 -47 5,966 4,885 -18
Belleville 233 301 29 0 48 ## 233 349 50
Brantford 263 324 23 336 912 171 599 1,236 106
Calgary 8,437 6,319 -25 8,388 10,824 29 16,825 17,143 2
Edmonton 6,313 6,826 8 5,544 12,576 127 11,857 19,402 64
Greater Sudbury 1,095 197 -82 204 72 -65 1,299 269 -79
Guelph 259 210 -19 0 0 - 259 210 -19
Halifax 829 1,158 40 672 216 -68 1,501 1,374 -8
Hamilton 822 580 -29 1,824 5,184 184 2,646 5,764 118
Kelowna 580 979 69 1,788 2,340 31 2,368 3,319 40
Kingston 119 132 11 0 72 ## 119 204 71
Kitchener – Cambridge – Waterloo 819 914 12 3,300 1,560 -53 4,119 2,474 -40
Lethbridge 140 314 124 72 312 333 212 626 195
London 1,458 1,215 -17 1,284 1,188 -7 2,742 2,403 -12
Moncton 306 362 18 888 516 -42 1,194 878 -26
Montréal 2,339 2,136 -9 21,082 32,142 52 23,421 34,278 46
Oshawa 1,229 1,280 4 792 3,708 368 2,021 4,988 147
Ottawa – Gatineau 3,348 4,683 40 13,428 10,116 -25 16,776 14,799 -12
Gatineau 1,190 1,228 3 5,484 1,956 -64 6,674 3,184 -52
Ottawa 2,158 3,455 60 7,944 8,160 3 10,102 11,615 15
Peterborough 547 357 -35 0 0 - 547 357 -35
Québec 1,392 774 -44 9,192 10,800 17 10,584 11,574 9
Regina 403 420 4 468 768 64 871 1,188 36
Saguenay 574 391 -32 240 528 120 814 919 13
St. Catharines – Niagara 816 1,104 35 960 4,608 380 1,776 5,712 222
Saint John 439 356 -19 0 480 ## 439 836 90
St. John's 1,447 1,246 -14 168 84 -50 1,615 1,330 -18
Saskatoon 1,117 1,510 35 192 3,564 ## 1,309 5,074 288
Sherbrooke 295 424 44 888 1,620 82 1,183 2,044 73
Thunder Bay 88 5 -94 0 0 - 88 5 -94
Toronto 8,094 6,353 -22 31,404 18,252 -42 39,498 24,605 -38
Trois-Rivières 407 369 -9 72 2,784 ## 479 3,153 ##
Vancouver 3,438 3,548 3 10,824 27,372 153 14,262 30,920 117
Victoria 740 841 14 732 3,000 310 1,472 3,841 161
Windsor 1,165 754 -35 120 1,656 ## 1,285 2,410 88
Winnipeg 958 1,292 35 3,660 4,308 18 4,618 5,600 21

Data for 2021 and 2022 based on 2016 Census Definitions.
Source: CMHC Starts and Completion Survey, Market Absorption Survey
## not calculable / extreme value

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Date Published: May 16, 2022

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