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[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thereโ€™s enough bedrooms in this country for every single person to sleep in.

This would be a very useful stat for us all to have if you can back it up. I'd also be interested if it is still true of individual provinces.

[โ€“] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, I don't think this exists as a discrete statistic, but here's some math to back it up.

Housing units in Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230116/dq230116d-eng.htm Approximately 16.4 million units in 2021

Bedrooms per dwelling https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?LANG=E&GENDERlist=1%2C2%2C3&STATISTIClist=4&HEADERlist=20&SearchText=Canada&DGUIDlist=2021A000011124

This one is a bit harder because the stat only collects 0 (studios) 1, 2, 3, and 4 or more. If we average it out assuming a studio also counts as 1 bedroom (which seems reasonable to me) and only assume 4 or more equals 4 exactly (just being conservative here) then we get an average number of bedrooms per dwelling of 2.7 bedrooms.

16.4 million homes x 2.7 bedrooms per home = 44.28 million bedrooms

Even the latest Canadian population in 2023 is 40.1 million.

That's enough rooms for every single Canadian to have their own room, and doesn't even need to account for couples sleeping in the same room. That means every couple could have a spare bedroom for an office or guest room and there would still be enough rooms for everyone.

[โ€“] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for math, appreciate