OTTAWA—Single-detached houses remain Canadians’ choice of dwelling but in Toronto, the apartment reigns. New data from the 2016 census shows that apartments (44 per cent) outnumber single-detached houses (40 per cent) as home for Toronto residents. And Toronto had the most dwellings in high-rise apartment buildings — nearly one in three — of major cities across the country, Statistics Canada said Wednesday as it released additional census data. The single-detached house accounted for 53.6 per cent, of 7.5 million of the 14.1 million private occupied dwellings in Canada, a share that has been declining since the early 1980s. Read more:Canada now has more seniors than children, census reveals

Source: thestar May 03, 2017 13:18 UTC