Immigrants in Montreal
In 2025, Montreal was the destination to 37,190 new immigrants.
In 2025, 60,105 new permanent residents were admitted to Quebec, 61.9% of them landed in Montreal.
From 2020 to 2026, Montreal was the destination choice of 228,535 new immigrants.
Immigrants in Montreal in Recent Years
Since 2020 immigration has been the dominant driver of population growth in Montreal following the initial COVID related slowdown. The Montreal Census Metropolitan Area absorbed the large majority of Quebecs newcomers with strong rebounds in permanent residents and especially non permanent residents such as international students temporary foreign workers and asylum claimants fueling record gains including over 89,600 people in 2022 2023 and more than 91,000 in 2023 2024 for growth rates around four percent. This surge pushed the Montreal CMA population well above four million by mid 2025 with the city proper seeing notable increases from international migration. More recently federal and provincial cuts to temporary resident targets have caused a sharp slowdown with growth dropping to just 0.3 to 0.5 percent in 2024 2025 and much smaller net gains in non permanent residents despite continued permanent immigration. Immigrants make up a significant share of Montreals population reflecting its long standing role as a key destination in Quebec.
In 2011, Montreal (CMA) was home to the third largest immigrant population in Canada.
In 2011, a total of 846,645 immigrants accounted for 23% of Montreal’s population, and they represented 11% of Quebec’s population.
