By the numbers

Other key facts from the 2016 census:

Nearly 80 per cent of people in Hamilton who say they have Aboriginal identity live in the former City of Hamilton. About one-third of all people reporting Aboriginal identity live between Queen Street and Kenilworth Avenue.

The number of people who report Aboriginal identity has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Of those people, 215 report Inuit as their ancestry.

Hamilton has become a popular living destination for migrants from elsewhere in Ontario. Within the past year, 15,315 people moved to Hamilton from elsewhere in Ontario. That's a jump of 22 per cent from a decade ago.

In the past five years, more than 46,000 people have moved to Hamilton from elsewhere in Ontario.

When all locations are considered, nearly 22,000 people moved to Hamilton from elsewhere in the past year, including nearly 4,700 people from outside Canada. That's an increase of 33 per cent over a decade ago.

57 per cent of the people living in the area bounded by Queen Street North / the harbourfront / Spring Gardens Road / York Boulevard are visible minorities. It’s the only census tract in Hamilton where visible minorities make up a majority of the population.

Here are the top 10 countries of persecution by number of refugee claimants to Canada in 2016: Nigeria 1,565 China 1,330 Pakistan 1,165 Turkey 1,106 Iraq 1,061 Syria 969 Hungary 957 Colombia 821 Eritrea 748 Somalia 719

There were more refugee claimants saying they faced persecution in Sweden (nine) or Norway (eight) — two of the world's safest and most socially progressive countries — than from war-torn South Sudan (seven). There were 128 people claiming they faced persecution in the U.S. At least two of them have been accepted as refugees in Canada.