Inuit origins across Inuit Nunangat
Across Canada 41 dissemination areas report Inuit origin for at least 90 percent of their population in private households.
Origin in this story: Inuit, unspecified
About 53,000 people in Nunavut, Quebec, Northwest Territories and Newfoundland and Labrador reported Inuit, unspecified origin. · North
Across Nunavut Inuit is reported by 83.9 percent of the population in private households, while within the territory the share is 52.1 percent in Iqaluit.
On the Nunavik coast of Quebec the share is 100.0 percent in Tasiujaq, 99.2 percent in Akulivik and 98.3 percent in Inukjuak.
On the Labrador coast the share is 95.5 percent in Nain and 93.3 percent in Hopedale, and in the western Arctic 47.6 percent in Ulukhaktok and 10.6 percent in Inuvik.
Province-wide the share is 1.5 percent in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.3 percent in the Northwest Territories, and 76,675 people reported Inuit origin across Canada.
Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.
These are answers to the census question on ethnic or cultural origin, not the separate census measures of Indigenous identity, Indigenous ancestry or registered or treaty Indian status, and they must not be read as equivalent. Counts are randomly rounded and several reserves were incompletely enumerated and are blank on the map. See ‘Indigenous origins’ under About this map. Inuvialuit and other regional names are not separate rows in the published national list.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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