The City has released it’s Annual Report for 2016.
Below you will find a link to said report a few noteworthy figures:
- The population of Ottawa was 968,580 at the end of 2016. Up by 0.8 per cent from 2015 but not up to 976,008 as projected in city’s official plan.
- The Kanata-Stittsville shows the highest growth at 27.8 per cent.
- The percentage of people living within the greenbelt has slowly decreased since the 2001 amalgamation.
- At the end of 2016 55 per cent lived inside the greenbelt.
- There were 5,298 housing starts in 2016. An increase of 6.6 per cent from 2015.
- Average resale price for all units including residential and condo was $371,000 in 2016.
- The average for single-detached new build home was $527,609.