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Canada’s Jewish population in 2021
Ottawa 2011: 13,850 2021: 15,000 +8%
was 404,015 (up 5% from 2011)
Halifax 2011: 2,080 2021: 2,735 +31.5%
Victoria 2011: 2,630 2021: 4,385 +67% Vancouver 2011: 25,740 2021: 28,030 +5.1%
Calgary 2011: 8,200 2021: 9,300 +13%
Winnipeg 2011: 13,260 2021: 13,940 +5.1%
Toronto 2011: 186,010 2021: 186,900 +0.5%
Montreal 2011: 89,665 2021: 90,255 +1%
Charles Shahar analyzed data from the 2021 Canadian census for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and Jewish federations across the country. While the number
• Canada remains the fourth-largest Jewish centre in the world, after Israel, the United States and France
• Growth in Montreal follows a half-century in decline, while Win- nipeg’s population increase reverses a 40-year trend
• Montreal’s increase is credited to immigration from France, along with higher birth rates in the ultra-Orthodox community
• The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg successfully reached out to newcomers from Israel, Turkey and South America
• Newcomers from the former Soviet Union continue to arrive—if not in the numbers of the 1980s and ‘90s
who reported their religion as Jewish was 335,295, the number who cited Jewish as their ethnicity boosted the conclusion. Shahar shared his observations on the data with Ellin Bessner .
• Toronto has seen its population plateau due to cheaper hous- ing elsewhere, including residents moving to smaller towns
More specific data will follow on interprovincial migration, inter- marriage rates, economic status, the number of Holocaust surviv- ors, mortality rates, and how many people in Canada self-identify as Sephardic Jews. The breakdowns help Jewish leaders from coast-to-coast plan their programs and services. Stay tuned for more about these demographic trends on The CJN Daily .
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