Immigration to Ontario
In 2025, Ontario was the destination to 169,550 new immigrants.
In 2025, 393,530 new permanent residents were admitted to Canada, 43% of them landed in Ontario.
From 2020 to 2025, Ontario was the destination choice of 1,049,480 new immigrants.
Immigration to Ontario in Recent Years
Since 2020, immigration has driven the vast majority of population growth in Ontario following the initial COVID related slowdown. The province welcomed a record 227,424 permanent immigrants in 2022 and around 200,000 in 2023 before seeing more moderate inflows of about 182,000 in the 12 months to October 2025 while non permanent residents such as international students and temporary workers surged dramatically adding hundreds of thousands in peak years and reaching over 1.47 million by early 2025. This international migration fueled record population gains exceeding 400,000 annually in 2022 23 and 2023 24 pushing Ontario past 16 million residents with the Greater Toronto Area absorbing the largest share. More recently federal reductions in temporary resident targets have triggered sharp net outflows of non permanent residents with declines of over 190,000 since late 2024 leading to quarterly population losses in 2025 despite steady permanent immigration around 40,000 to 50,000 per quarter. Immigrants now represent about 30 percent of Ontario’s population.
IMMIGRATION TO ONTARIO – ANIMATED CHARTS
