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Our Multi-Cultural Community
Note to Reader: Ethno-cultural and immigration data is derived from the new National
Household Survey which means that data was provided on a voluntary basis compared
to previous censuses where the data was part of the mandatory long form. Therefore,
the data that is reported below represents a new benchmark for the community. For
comparison purposes the National Household Survey presents data from previous
census periods have been adjusted to align with the new methodology. The data that
is reflected below cannot be compared to the data that was reported previously in the
two Community Well-Being Reports (2006 and 2009).
Recent immigration Visible minorities
Recent immigrants are a population at significant risk Visible minorities make up an important part of our
within our region. Provincial data in Ontario has shown community. A total of 57,795 people self-identified as
that in their first year since landing in Canada, only about a visible minority in the Windsor CMA and Leamington
half of immigrants manage to have income with a mean CA with the three predominant statuses identified as
of $18,700 in 2008. By their second year in Canada, the Arab (23.7 percent), Black (19.1 percent) and South
data shows some improvement with approximately 71 Asian (16.7 percent).2 The visible minority population
percent of immigrants having income, and the mean represents 15.1 percent of the total population in
income increasing to $23,000 which is still well below private households or 14.8 percent of the total CMA
the low income cut off in Canada.xvi and CA population.xx
In 2011, there were 84,640 people who were not born “C anada is not a melting pot in
in Canada living in the Windsor CMA and Leamington which the individuality of each
CA representing 21.6 percent of the population.xvii element is destroyed in order to
According to the National Household Survey, a total of produce a new and totally different
10,100 people arrived from 2006-2011 slightly higher element. It is rather a garden into
than the 9,795 immigrants that arrived in the previous which have been transplanted the
five year period (2001-2005). Over the last decade hardiest and brightest flowers from
19,815 arrived compared to 19,075 in the previous many lands, each retaining in its
decade (1991-2000). This stability in immigration is new environment the best of the
important as Statistics Canada projects that by 2031, qualities for which it was loved
80% of all population growth in Canada will come from and prized in its native land.”
new immigration. xviii
– John Diefenbaker,
From 2006 to 2011, just over half (52 percent) of Prime Minister of Canada, 1957-1963
immigrants were from Asia with 44.6 percent of those
immigrants arriving from West Central Asia/Middle
East. The greatest number of immigrants is arriving
from Iraq (12.9 percent). Southern Asia had the next
highest number of immigrants at 1,170, primarily from
India (500) and Pakistan (320).xix
2 Visible Minority are defined by the Employment Equity Act as
“persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian
in race or non-white in colour”.
Our Multi-Cultural Community
Note to Reader: Ethno-cultural and immigration data is derived from the new National
Household Survey which means that data was provided on a voluntary basis compared
to previous censuses where the data was part of the mandatory long form. Therefore,
the data that is reported below represents a new benchmark for the community. For
comparison purposes the National Household Survey presents data from previous
census periods have been adjusted to align with the new methodology. The data that
is reflected below cannot be compared to the data that was reported previously in the
two Community Well-Being Reports (2006 and 2009).
Recent immigration Visible minorities
Recent immigrants are a population at significant risk Visible minorities make up an important part of our
within our region. Provincial data in Ontario has shown community. A total of 57,795 people self-identified as
that in their first year since landing in Canada, only about a visible minority in the Windsor CMA and Leamington
half of immigrants manage to have income with a mean CA with the three predominant statuses identified as
of $18,700 in 2008. By their second year in Canada, the Arab (23.7 percent), Black (19.1 percent) and South
data shows some improvement with approximately 71 Asian (16.7 percent).2 The visible minority population
percent of immigrants having income, and the mean represents 15.1 percent of the total population in
income increasing to $23,000 which is still well below private households or 14.8 percent of the total CMA
the low income cut off in Canada.xvi and CA population.xx
In 2011, there were 84,640 people who were not born “C anada is not a melting pot in
in Canada living in the Windsor CMA and Leamington which the individuality of each
CA representing 21.6 percent of the population.xvii element is destroyed in order to
According to the National Household Survey, a total of produce a new and totally different
10,100 people arrived from 2006-2011 slightly higher element. It is rather a garden into
than the 9,795 immigrants that arrived in the previous which have been transplanted the
five year period (2001-2005). Over the last decade hardiest and brightest flowers from
19,815 arrived compared to 19,075 in the previous many lands, each retaining in its
decade (1991-2000). This stability in immigration is new environment the best of the
important as Statistics Canada projects that by 2031, qualities for which it was loved
80% of all population growth in Canada will come from and prized in its native land.”
new immigration. xviii
– John Diefenbaker,
From 2006 to 2011, just over half (52 percent) of Prime Minister of Canada, 1957-1963
immigrants were from Asia with 44.6 percent of those
immigrants arriving from West Central Asia/Middle
East. The greatest number of immigrants is arriving
from Iraq (12.9 percent). Southern Asia had the next
highest number of immigrants at 1,170, primarily from
India (500) and Pakistan (320).xix
2 Visible Minority are defined by the Employment Equity Act as
“persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian
in race or non-white in colour”.
