Table 2
Residential concentration by immigration status in Canada's
eight largest metropolitan areas for selected ethnic groups,
2001
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| Living in co-ethnic neighbourhoods1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Immigrants | Canadian born | |
| percent | ||
| Chinese | 18.1 | 14.3 |
| South Asian | 9.9 | 10.9 |
| Black | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Filipino | 2.2 | 2.6 |
| German | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Italian | 12.7 | 12.5 |
| Portuguese | 3.1 | 3.6 |
1. Neighbourhoods here refer to urban street blocks that have a median population size around 100. A co-ethnic neighbourhood is defined as a street block where at least two thirds of the residents have the same ethnic origin.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census 20% microdata file.
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