African Nova Scotian origins around Halifax
Within the Halifax municipality one dissemination area reports African Nova Scotian origin for 21.6 percent of the 625 people in private households counted there, against 0.33 percent across the municipality as a whole.
Origin in this story: African Nova Scotian
About 1,415 people in Halifax reported African Nova Scotian origin. · Atlantic
African Nova Scotian is reported by 0.33 percent of the population in private households across the Halifax municipality and 1.6 percent in New Glasgow.
Within the Halifax municipality the response is not spread evenly: one dissemination area reaches 21.6 percent of the 625 people in private households counted there.
African Canadian and Black unspecified are separate responses: African Canadian is reported by 0.61 percent of the population in private households and Black unspecified by 0.42 percent across the Halifax municipality.
Across Nova Scotia the response is given by 0.19 percent of the population in private households, against 0.01 percent across Canada.
Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.
African Nova Scotian, African Canadian, African unspecified and Black unspecified are separate responses in the census. They are never added together here, and counts this small are randomly rounded.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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