Oshawa
Small city · Ontario · Population 175,383
Community profile
As reported to Statistics Canada in the 2021 Census. AreaScore shows these figures for context only. They are never used in scores, rankings, comparisons or search.
Immigration
- Non-immigrantsCanada: 74.4%76.4%
- ImmigrantsCanada: 23%22.1%
- Immigrants who arrived 2016 to 2021Canada: 3.7%3.1%
- Non-permanent residentsCanada: 2.5%1.5%
Visible minority groups
- Not a visible minorityCanada: 73.5%71.1%
- South AsianCanada: 7.1%9.3%
- BlackCanada: 4.3%8.9%
- FilipinoCanada: 2.6%2.5%
- ChineseCanada: 4.7%1.8%
- Latin AmericanCanada: 1.6%1.3%
- More than one visible minority groupCanada: 0.9%1.3%
- West AsianCanada: 1%1.2%
- Another visible minority groupCanada: 0.5%1.1%
- ArabCanada: 1.9%0.7%
- Southeast AsianCanada: 1.1%0.4%
- KoreanCanada: 0.6%0.3%
- JapaneseCanada: 0.3%0.1%
Indigenous identity
- Indigenous identityCanada: 5%3.1%
- First NationsCanada: 2.9%1.8%
- MétisCanada: 1.7%1.1%
- InuitCanada: 0.2%0%
Religion
- ChristianCanada: 53.3%51.4%
- No religion or secular perspectivesCanada: 34.6%37.3%
- MuslimCanada: 4.9%5.8%
- HinduCanada: 2.3%3.7%
- Other religions and spiritual traditionsCanada: 0.6%0.7%
- BuddhistCanada: 1%0.5%
- SikhCanada: 2.1%0.4%
- JewishCanada: 0.9%0.3%
- Traditional (North American Indigenous) spiritualityCanada: 0.2%0%
Religion is asked every ten years, so these are the latest figures.
Statistics Canada, 2021