Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP)

Price-to-income ratio of property buyer, number

Price-to-income ratio is a measure of housing affordability of the buyer(s) that refers to the ratio between the sale price of the property sold and the sum of the property buyers' individual total incomes.

Property buyer refers to a residential property owner that has property title transferred to, recorded in, registered in or otherwise carried in their name after the sale of a property during the reference period.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Decimal number