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THE VISIBLE MINORITY

REPORT FOR

WINDSOR-ESSEX

Canada: The National Picture

The Visible Minority Report of 14 July 2019

In Canada, almost 4 million people identified themselves as visible minorities in the 2001 census, representing 13.4% of the total population. In 2006, an estimated 5,068,100 individuals were members of the visible minority population. In 2016, that number increased yet again to an estimated 7,674,580 individuals. Visible minorities are defined as 'persons, other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.' Under this definition, regulations specify that the following groups are included in the visible minority population: Chinese, South Asians, Blacks, Arabs, West Asians, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, Latin Americans, Japanese, Koreans and other visible minority groups, such as Pacific Islanders.

Between 2001 and 2006, Canada’s visible minority population increased by 27.2%. This was five times faster than the 5.4% growth rate of the total population. Between 2006 and 2016, the growth rate increased by 37.5%. Comparatively, the growth rate of the total population was 10.6% in that same time period.

The growth in the visible minority population is largely due to the high proportion of newcomers who belonging to visible minority groups. In 2006, 75.0% of recent immigrants who arrived since 2001 were visible minorities compared to 72.9% of visible minority newcomers in 2001 and 74.1% in 1996. In 2016, within the visible minority group, 30.9% were born in Canada and 65.1% came as immigrants. 4% were non-permanent residents.

As of 2006, South Asians surpassed Chinese as the largest visible minority group in Canada. Chinese and Blacks were respectively, the second and third largest visible minority groups. Visible minorities represented 22.27% of the total population in 2016, an increase from 16.2% of the total population in 2006, which was up from 13.4% in 2001 and 11.2% in 1996. The graph below shows a comparison of the visible minority population in all Canadian provinces between 2006 and 2016.


Figure 1

Ontario: The Provincial Picture

The 2016 Census enumerated an estimated 3,885,585 individuals who are visible minorities in Ontario. This means that Ontario holds just over half (50.6%) of Canada's total visible minority population. British Columbia has the second largest share with approximately 18%.

Visible minorities comprised 29.3% of Ontario's total population in 2016; of this 29.3%, 3 million live in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Between 2006 and 2016, Ontario’s visible minority population increased by 41.5%. Comparatively, the total population as a whole increased 10.6% in that same time period, meaning that the visible minority population increased approximately 4 times faster. Ontario’s 374,395 people who self-identified as Aboriginal were not counted as part of the visible minority population.

According to the 2016 census, the largest visible minority group in Canada is South Asian, followed by Chinese (25.5% versus 20.9%). This remains true for the province of Ontario as well. South Asians are 29.6% of Ontario’s visible minority population followed by Chinese that comprise of 19.4% of the population. Figure 2 provided below shows the breakdown of the visible minority population between the province of Ontario and the country as a whole.


Figure 2

Region of Essex (Windsor and Essex County) : Our Local Picture


Windsor, although not large, has a lot to offer diversity wise. For example, in the 2006 census, Windsor was hailed as the fourth largest ethnically diverse city in Canada followed by Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Recently, the federal statistics agency offered projections on the rising diversity of metropolitan areas across the country. In this study, it was predicted that the proportion of working-age visible minorities could make up more than a third (38.4%) of Windsor's population by the year 2036. Currently, the percentage of visible minorities (of all ages) in Windsor is 26.92%.

From 2006 to 2016, the proportion of residents in the region of Windsor Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) who identified themselves as visible minorities rose 29.8%. In 2006, there were 51,200 visible minorities representing 15.96% of the Windsor CMA population. As of the year 2016, the total number of visible minorities in the Windsor CMA was 66,480, or 20.5% of the population. Most of these individuals live in Windsor. According to the 2016 census, there are 57,605 people who declared to be of a visible minority group in the city of Windsor alone. Of these 57,605 people, the largest group amongst them was Arabs (16,115 people), then Blacks (10,675 people), then South Asians were the third largest group (9,640 people) and Chinese were the fourth largest group (7,340 people).

What follows now is a detailed breakdown and analysis of the visible minority population in the region of Windsor-Essex by municipality. Given the shifting cultural and racial composition of the population of the region of Windsor-Essex and the corresponding diversity of students in schools, a priority in delivering education must be to prepare both teachers and students for life in an increasingly diverse society. Further, the concentration of new immigrants in a small number of urban areas presents challenges for school boards who are called upon to integrate large numbers of children from a wide variety of backgrounds.

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In the pages that follow, please note that the tables are organized with the groups that have the most number of members first. If two groups have the exact same number of members, they are then placed in ascending alphabetical order. A definition of who comprises of each group is provided at the end of the document for certain groups. All data and graphs are obtained directly from Statistics Canada’s


Census of 2016, 2006 and 2001. Statistics Canada uses self-reporting when conducting their Census. Therefore, all the data of the groups that an individual belongs to is self-reported.

WINDSORVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%

Total Visible Minority Population

57,605 26.92% 20.81% 17.17%

Arab 16,115 7.53% 4.15% 3.61%Black 10,675 4.99% 3.88% 3.48%

South Asian 9,640 4.5% 4.04% 2.75%Chinese 7,340 3.43% 3.21% 2.47%

Southeast Asian 3,365 1.57% 1.26% 1.28%Filipino 2,960 1.38% 1.21% 1.14%

Latin American 2,670 1.25% 1.22% 1.04%Multiple Visible

Minority1,830 0.86% 0.39% 0.41%

Visible Minority n-i-e 1,295 0.61% 0.42% 0.54%West Asian 1,290 0.6% 0.78% 0.5%

Korean 315 0.15% 0.16% 0.14%Japanese 110 0.05% 0.04% 0.04%


Figure 3

LEAMINGTONVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


3,145 10.5% 10.30% 7.15%

Latin American 835 2.79% 4.91% 1.54%Arab 720 2.4% 2.05% 3.04%

Southeast Asian 615 2.05% 0.97% 0.41%Black 425 1.42% 0.86% 0.98%

Filipino 230 0.77% 0.08% 0.09%Chinese 70 0.23% 0.51% 0.15%

South Asian 70 0.23% 0.28% 0.24%West Asian 65 0.22% 0.08% 0.05%Japanese 50 0.17% 0.14% 0.03%

Multiple Visible Minority

30 0.1% 0.08% 0.05%


Korean 25 0.08% 0% 0%Visible Minority n-i-e 15 0.05% 0.28% 0.06%

Figure 4

KINGSVILLEVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


535 2.63% 3.6% 2.46

Latin American 155 0.76% 1.92% 0.18%Black 140 0.69% 0.92% 0.44%

Chinese 80 0.39% 0.14% 0.36%Arab 30 0.15% 0.39% 0.15%

Korean 30 0.15% 0% 0.05%Japanese 25 0.12% 0% 0%

Southeast Asian 25 0.12% 0.07% 0.13%South Asian 25 0.12% 0% 0.21%

Filipino 15 0.07% 0.09% 0.18%



10 0.05% 0.04% 0.44%

Visible Minority n-i-e 0 0% 0% 0.23%West Asian 0 0% 0% 0.05%

Figure 5

AMHERSTBURGVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


770 3.56% 3.35% 2.13%

Black 355 1.64% 1.85% 1.36%Chinese 105 0.48% 0.20% 0.40%

Arab 75 0.35% 0.09% 0%Latin American 45 0.21% 0.06% 0.05%

South Asian 45 0.21% 0.11% 0%Filipino 35 0.16% 0.27% 0.17%

Southeast Asian 25 0.12% 0.3% 0%Multiple Visible 25 0.12% 0.06% 0%


MinorityVisible Minority n-i-e 20 0.09% 0.06% 0%

West Asian 15 0.07% 0.06% 0%Korean 10 0.05% 0.04% 0.05%

Japanese 0 0% 0.16% 0.04%

Figure 6LaSALLE

Visible Minority Population2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


3745 12.51% 9.16% 6.41%

South Asian 890 2.97% 1.90% 1.29%Arab 750 2.51% 1.95% 0.96%

Chinese 730 2.44% 1.66% 1.23%Black 580 1.94% 1.14% 1.52%

Filipino 230 0.77% 0.67% 0.59%Multiple Visible

Minority175 0.58% 0.56% 0.11%


Latin American 130 0.43% 0.38% 0.07%West Asian 115 0.38% 0.03% 0.19%

Korean 90 0.3% 0.77% 0.15%Visible Minority n-i-e 60 0.2% 0% 0.15%

Southeast Asian 10 0.03% 0.03% 0.07%Japanese 0 0% 0.05% 0%

Figure 7

TECUMSEHVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


2,255 9.77% 5.78% 4.99%

South Asian 510 2.21% 1.9% 1.26%Arab 420 1.82% 0.8% 0.27%Black 355 1.54% 0.49% 0.76%

Filipino 300 1.3% 0.86% 1.26%Chinese 225 0.98% 0.82% 0.90%

Latin American 120 0.52% 0.43% 0.23%The Visible Minority Report of 14 July 2019


105 0.46% 0.04% 0%

Visible Minority n-i-e 85 0.37% 0.14% 0.15%Korean 60 0.26% 0.08% 0%

West Asian 55 0.24% 0.06% 0.03%Southeast Asian 45 0.2% 0.1% 0.13%

Japanese 0 0% 0% 0%

Figure 8

LAKESHOREVisible Minority Population

2016 Census data

2016 Total

2016% 2006% 2001%


2,105 5.79% 4.5% 2.38%

South Asian 640 1.76% 1.49% 0.79%Black 345 0.95% 0.77% 0.42%Arab 275 0.76% 0.69% 0.14%

Southeast Asian 215 0.59% 0.33% 0.39%


Chinese 160 0.44% 0.46% 0%Multiple Visible

Minority105 0.29% 0.09% 0%

Filipino 60 0.16% 0.18% 0.33%Latin American 85 0.23% 0.09% 0.05%

Visible Minority n-i-e 65 0.18% 0.06% 0.05%Korean 30 0.08% 0.04% 0.10%

Japanese 20 0.05% 0% 0%West Asian 0 0% 0.25% 0.08%

Figure 9

GLOSSARY OF TERMS1) Statistics Canada - The Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture (also known as Stats Can)

2) Census - Every five years Statistics Canada gathers important information on the Canadian population in order to provide a statistical portrait of Canada and its people. The 2006 Census of Canada (Census of Population and Census of Agriculture) took place in May 2006. The data on population in the census is self-reported.


3) Visible Minority - Visible minorities are defined as 'persons, other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.' Under this definition, regulations specify that the following groups are included in the visible minority population: Chinese, South Asians, Blacks, Arabs, West Asians, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, Latin Americans, Japanese, Koreans and other visible minority groups, such as Pacific Islanders. 4) South Asians - For example, people who identify and report themselves as East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, etc.

5) West Asians - For example, people who identify and report themselves as Iranian, Afghan, etc.

6) Southeast Asian - For example, people who identify and report themselves as Vietnamese, Cambodian, Malaysian, Laotian, etc.

7) Visible minority, n.i.e. - The abbreviation 'n.i.e.' means 'not included elsewhere.' Includes respondents who reported a write-in response such as 'Guyanese,' 'West Indian,' 'Kurd,' 'Tibetan,' 'Polynesian,' 'Pacific Islander,' etc.

8) Multiple visible minority- Includes respondents who reported more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in circles, e.g., 'Black' and 'South Asian.'


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