A new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation shows that immigration to Prince George seems to be holding steady.
Senior Researcher Roger Lewis looks at stats on the percentage of recent immigrants to the city.
“These are people who, as of 2011, had arrived in about the last five years,” he says. “3% of the population in Prince George are recent immigrants, about 9 – 10% are immigrants, not just recent, but immigrants overall.”
Though he can’t say specifically what Prince George’s trends are looking like, Lewis has seen enough evidence nationwide to come to one conclusion.
“Rather than settling mostly in the largest centres for the metropolitan areas in Canada, there’s a bit more of a spread of immigrants to smaller, medium-sized centres, like Prince George,” he says.
According to Lewis and the CMHC, immigration is a changing landscape, “Decades ago, most of the immigrants who came to Canada would have been of European origin, ” he says. “Now, Asia is much more dominant, so I would assume that would be the case in Prince George as well.”
Lewis says national data shows the “baby-boomer” population is retiring so fast and in such great numbers that immigrants are filling holes in numerous sectors .
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