Highlights from ‘Population of Households, 2024’
The following statistics were released from the Economics and Statistics Division on November 28. For full details from this dataset, please click here.
Nova Scotia’s population as of July 1, 2024 was 1,076,374- On July 1, 2024 there were 475,881 households in Nova Scotia
- Of these, about 70% were 1 or 2 person households
- A further 25% were 3 or 4 person households
- Households of 5 or more persons amounted to about 5% of the number of households in Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia had a higher than average share of the population in 1 and 2 person households
- From July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024 Nova Scotia’s population increased by about 1.9% while the number of households increased by 2.7%
- As Nova Scotia was one of two provinces (along with Prince Edward Island) in which household growth outpaced population growth, the average household size contracted to 2.26 persons per household
- Since 2015, the number of households in Nova Scotia has grown by over 74,000
- With rising numbers of one-person households, the average household size in Nova Scotia has declined in most years