Monthly Housing Starts and Other Construction Data Tables

Housing starts are an economic indicator that reflect the number of residential housing projects that have been started over a specific length of time. These data are divided into 3 types: single-family houses, townhouses or small condos and apartment buildings with 5 or more units.

May Monthly Housing Starts key highlights The trend in housing starts was 230,205 units in May 2023, down from 240,318 units in April. The trend measure is a 6-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of total housing starts for all areas in Canada. The Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal census metropolitan areas (CMAs) all recorded declines in total SAAR housing starts in May. Vancouver was down 45%, Toronto down 28% and Montréal down 35%. All CMAs 3 recorded increases in single-detached starts that were offset by large increases in multi-unit starts. May Standalone Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) The standalone monthly SAAR of total housing starts for all areas in Canada in May was 202,494 units, a decrease of 23% from April. The SAAR of total urban starts decreased by 24% in May to 182,842 units. Multi-unit urban starts decreased by 30% to 139,890 units in May. Single-detached urban starts increased by 6% to 42,952 units. Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 19,652 units.

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Last Updated August 23, 2024, 17:44 (UTC)
Created July 8, 2023, 17:37 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Housing
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
.csv - text/csv
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2023-06-27
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
2021-01-01
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
2023-05-31
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Canada
Field Value
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
Open
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/housing-market-data/monthly-housing-starts-construction-data-tables
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
Author of the dataset.
CMHC
Author Email
Email of the author.
contactcentre@cmhc.ca
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2023-07-08
Field Value
Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/housing-market-data/monthly-housing-starts-construction-data-tables
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
N/A
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
N/A
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
No
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
No
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
No
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Version
Version of the datatset
2023-05
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
2023-05
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
Annually
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
City
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Machine readable
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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