Citizenship

Compared to the City as a whole, the study area contains a considerably larger percentage of individuals who are not Canadian citizens. Twenty-four percent of the people residing in the study area are not Canadian citizens, which is four times as much as that of the entire City. The high volume of international students attending post-secondary institutes in the area accounts for a large proportion of the local non-Canadian citizen residents. According to the University of Windsor, 23% of the total 16321 students are international students, meaning that there are approximately 3753 international students.

Immigrant Status

An immigrant is defined as an individual who has moved to Windsor from a country outside of Canada and has successfully become a citizen or permeant resident. Non-permanent residents are individuals who have temporary work, student, or tourist visas, or Temporary Resident Permits, which permit them to remain in Canada. Non-immigrant residents refer to persons who are Canadian citizens by birth.

The study area and the City as a whole have similar percentages of immigrants. However, non-permanent residents have a far bigger presence in the designated areas along University Avenue West and Wyandotte Street West. The non-permanent resident population takes up 15% of the total population in the study area, but only 1% of Windsor people have declared themselves to have such status. Moreover, the proportion of non-permanent residents varies among the different Census Tracts. Census Tract 27 and Census Tract 31 have very few non-permeant residents, as this group only takes up 1% and 3% of the total Census Tract population, respectively. Eleven percent of the population in Census Tract 30 are non-permanent residents. Census Tract 29 has an astonishingly high figure, as 35% of the population is made up of non-permanent residents.