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