The number of Canadians moving permanently to the United States has declined significantly over the past decade, according to a report from Statistics Canada (StatCan).
The average number of Canadian-born individuals granted U.S. permanent residency fell by 30 per cent from the late 2000s to the late 2010s, dropping from 15,600 to 10,900 annually.
Levels in 2022 and 2023 remained essentially unchanged from 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A significant number of Canadians who had considered relocating to the U.S. are now re-evaluating their plans, according to a previous report.
Approximately 30 per cent of permanent residents migrating from Canada to the U.S. were not born in Canada, according to StatCan’s study.
“Based on 2016 Canadian census population estimates and the number of permanent residents moving to the United States in that year, the rate of emigration to the United States was 4.8 per 10,000 for the Canadian-born population, compared with 8.2 per 10,000 for the foreign-born population,” say experts Feng Hou, with the Economic and Social Analysis and Modelling Division, Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch at StatCan; Milly Yang, with the Department of Sociology at Yale University; and Yao Lu, with the Department of Sociology at Columbia University.
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