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November 07, 2025POPULATION OF HOUSEHOLDS, 2025 Nova Scotia's population as of July 1, 2025 was 1,093,245. Statistics Canada has broken Nova Scotia's population down further into the number of households.
On July 1, 2025 there were 484,634 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. In Ontario and Western provinces, larger households were more common.
From July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025 Nova Scotia's population increased by about 1.0% while the number of households increased by 1.3%.
Nova Scotia's average household size contracted to 2.26 persons per household as the pace of growth of households was faster than population growth. This was tied with Québec, just ahead of Newfoundland and Labrador's smallest average household size among provinces.
Household size contracted nationally with declines in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.
Since 2015, the number of households in Nova Scotia has grown by almost 83,000.
The number of one-person households has grown faster than other sizes of household in Nova Scotia. With rising numbers of one-person households, the average household size in Nova Scotia has declined in most years.
Housing stock has grown more slowly than the pace of household formation in Nova Scotia.
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 17-10-0005-01 Population estimates on July 1, by age and gender; Table 17-10-0159-01 Estimates of the number of private households by size on July 1st
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