The latest release of information from the 2016 census shows more residents are living in common law relationships in the Windsor area, and more of those relationships are same-sex.
Statistics Canada says the percentage of common law couples increased 17.8% between 2011 and 2016, while the number of common law same-sex couples increased 16.1%
More same sex couples are getting married. That increased 43% since 2011.
A different story in Leamington where the number of same-sex common law couples fell 10%, and the number of married same-sex couples fell 60%.
There was an increase in overall common law unions in Leamington. That percentage increased 12.3%.
In both metropolitan census areas, more couples were married than not. In Windsor, married couples outnumbered common law by 128,460 to 19,655. While in Leamington, the spread was 23,375 to 2,495.
The 2016 census also shows the vast majority of residents speak English exclusively. In Windsor, 72.3% of residents said they spoke English, compared with 70.4% in Leamington.
French-language speakers accounted for 2.9% of Windsor's total. In Leamington, the French-speaking community was 1.3% of the total population.
Just 0.2% of Leamington's population is bilingual in English and French, while 1.3% are proficient in English and a language other than French, and 0.1% say they can speak English, French, and at least one other language.
Windsor fared slightly better when it came to the percentage of bilingual speakers. A total of 1,675 can speak both English and French, or 0.5% of the population. Those that can converse in English and a language other than French account for 1.7%, and those that know English, French and at least one other language make up 0.1% of the population or just 265 residents.