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54% of residents said they belonged to what Statistics Canada terms a visible minority — up from 49% in 2016...That increase was predominantly due to 154,820 new immigrants who settled in Metro Vancouver between 2016 and 2021, most of them coming from India (30,545) and China (28,970). According to Statistics Canada, the largest non-white ethnic groups in Metro Vancouver are Chinese (comprising 19.6 per cent of the population), South Asian (14.2 per cent) and Filipino (5.5 per cent)."I just think it talks to how our community is changing," said Andy Yan, director of Simon Fraser University's City Program."Older ways of viewing Metro Vancouver — not just Vancouver and Richmond, but places like Surrey and Langley — are ones that need to change with the times, and this is just one marker."The municipality with the highest proportion of people identifying as a visible minority was Richmond at 80.3 per cent, followed by Burnaby, Surrey, Coquitlam and then Vancouver at 54.5 per cent.