Tenant rate stabilizes in Quebec

The proportion of households that rent in Quebec was just over 50% until 1971, then gradually declined to 39.8% in 2006 before reaching 38.7% in 2011.

Five years later, the 2016 census, published by Statistics Canada on October 25, shows that the tenant rate has remained steady at 38.7%.

However, the number of tenant households has increased:

From 2011 to 2016: +3.87% (50,810)

Over the last 10 years: +7.42% (94,065)

There were 1,362,010 tenant households in Quebec in 2016.

Tenant rates in Quebec’s five cities

	2016	2011	2006
Saguenay	35.7	35.9	36.0
Québec	39.8	40.2	41.2
Trois-Rivières	41.6	42.0	42.0
Sherbrooke	43.7	45.1	45.7
Montréal	44.3	44.8	46.4

In 2016, the province of Quebec still had the highest rate of tenants (38.7%) in all of Canada (32.2%).