CMHC housing starts, seasonally adjusted annual rates, quarterly
Quarterly housing starts from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation as published by Statistics Canada (table 34-10-0140-01, 'Total units', seasonally adjusted at annual rates): the number of dwelling units started, for Canada, the 10 provinces and 34 census metropolitan areas. Values are published in thousands of units (kept verbatim — the unit is documented on the column, multiply by 1,000 for unit counts). Coverage 1990-Q1 to the present for Canada, the provinces and most CMAs; genuine upstream gaps are kept missing, never zero-filled (six CMAs start 2007-Q1, Abbotsford-Mission and Kingston start 2014-Q1, and the Ottawa-Gatineau Quebec part is missing its three latest quarters). Statistics Canada Open Licence (commercial reuse allowed); source: Statistics Canada (data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation).
- Source
- Statistics Canada
- Rows
- 6,570
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Quarterly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 26, 2026
- Theme
- housing
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| quarter | string | Reference quarter, as an ISO date (first month of the quarter: January, April, July or October). |
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Canada (CAN) — the join key for the 'Enrich with public data' feature. |
| geo_name | string | Geography: Canada, one of the 10 provinces, or one of 34 census metropolitan areas, as published by Statistics Canada. |
| starts_saar_thousands | float | Housing starts ('Total units'), seasonally adjusted at annual rates, as published: in thousands of dwelling units (multiply by 1,000 for unit counts). Non-negative float; genuine upstream gaps (late-joining CMAs, and the Ottawa-Gatineau Quebec part's three latest quarters) are missing, never zero-filled. (unit: thousands of dwelling units (SAAR)) |
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for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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Statistics Canada. (2026). CMHC housing starts, seasonally adjusted annual rates, quarterly [Data set, snapshot 20260926T052417Z-acb8e5577796, sha256 acb8e5577796]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-26, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_housing/statcan_cmhc_housing_starts_quarterly?snapshot=20260926T052417Z-acb8e5577796
@misc{dz_statcan_housing_statcan_cmhc_housing_sta_acb8e557,
title = {{CMHC housing starts, seasonally adjusted annual rates, quarterly}},
author = {{Statistics Canada}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_housing/statcan_cmhc_housing_starts_quarterly?snapshot=20260926T052417Z-acb8e5577796}},
note = {Snapshot 20260926T052417Z-acb8e5577796, sha256 acb8e5577796a269597ef606c79fb69acf41056138496397758fef8da454a774; accessed 2026-09-26}
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