Burnaby Demographics

66.6% of Burnaby's recent immigrants

spoke non-official languages most often at home in 2016, notably more than 62.1% of Metro Vancouver’s recent immigrants.
Source: 2016 Census

In 2016 Immigrants represented

50% of Burnaby's total population - that's 115,145 people.
Source: 2016 Census

30.5% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants

spoke Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese n.o.s. combined) most often at home.
Source: 2016 Census

10% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants

were unemployed in 2015, significantly higher than their Canadian born counterparts (6.5%).
Source: 2016 Census

44.4% Of Burnaby's recent

immigration population came from China and the Philippines.
Source: 2016 Census

63.6% Burnaby’s residents

self-identified as visible minorities.
Source: 2016 Census

In 2015 35.6% of the recent

immigration population age 15 and over were in the low income bracket, down from 41.8% in 2010.
Source: 2016 Census

In 2016 56.4% of recent immigrants

aged 25 to 64 had a bachelor's degree or higher, up from 54.9% in 2011.
Source: 2016 Census

8.7% of Burnaby's recent immigrants

are refugees.
Source: 2016 Census

54% of Burnaby's labour force

are immigrants.
Source: 2016 Census

15.7% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants

spoke non-official languages at work.
Source: 2016 Census

62.4% of Burnaby's 16,065 recent immigrants

arrived under the economic class, similar to Metro Vancouver’s regional levels (63%).
Source: 2016 Census

232,755 residents

lived in Burnaby in 2015.
Source: 2016 Census

39.8% of Burnaby’s total population

spoke English only as their mother tongue, notably lower (14%) than Metro Vancouver’s regional level of 54.0%.
Source: 2016 Census

66.0% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants

were between the ages of 15 and 44 when arriving Canada.
Source: 2016 Census

Burnaby was home to the fourth-largest

immigrant population (115,145) in the Metro Vancouver Region, representing 11.6% of Metro Vancouver’s immigrant population.
Source: 2016 Census

26.2% of Burnaby’s recent immigrants

worked in the retail trade, and the accommodation and food services sectors in 2015.
Source: 2016 Census

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