In 2021, the Canadian government's national population census recorded 127,640 LGBTQIA+ couples. A large portion of these couples lived in the country's two most populous provinces, Ontario and Quebec. The majority of queer couples were composed of two cisgender women or two cisgender men (people whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth), but a quarter were transgender couples (people whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth), or non-binary couples (people who are not exclusively male or female).
Number of same-gender, transgender, and non-binary couples in Canada in 2021, by type and province or territory
* Couple families in which at least one member is transgender and neither member is non-binary. ** Couple families in which at least one member is non-binary.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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