Socioeconomic characteristics of each neighbourhood income quintile, urban Canada, 1996
| Income quintile | Low income* (%) | Average household income (Can$) | IPPE† (Can$) | Income from government transfers (%) | Housing owned (%) | Foreign born (%) | Recent immigrants‡ (%) | Unemployed§ (%) | Managerial professional occupations¶ (%) | Low education (<9 years)** (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Source: 1996 Canadian census tract profile data for the non-institutional population. | ||||||||||
| *Less than Statistics Canada’s low-income cut-off for family size and metropolitan area population size group. | ||||||||||
| †Income per person equivalent (average household income adjusted for household size). | ||||||||||
| ‡Immigrants who arrived from 1991 to 1996, as a percentage of all persons age ⩾5 years in 1996. | ||||||||||
| §As percentage of labour force aged ⩾15 years. | ||||||||||
| ¶Includes occupations in managerial, administrative, teaching and related occupations, as well as occupations in medicine and health. | ||||||||||
| **As percentage of population aged ⩾15 years. | ||||||||||
| QT (all quintiles) | 21.5 | 51 718 | 34 901 | 21.1 | 58.6 | 25.1 | 5.6 | 9.3 | 9.8 | 10.4 |
| Q1 (richest) | 7.6 | 72 944 | 45 592 | 7.3 | 84.7 | 16.2 | 2.7 | 6.1 | 13.2 | 5.7 |
| Q2 | 12.8 | 61 780 | 39 636 | 9.6 | 75.7 | 20.4 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 11.0 | 8.1 |
| Q3 | 19.2 | 52 880 | 35 393 | 12.0 | 62.2 | 25.5 | 5.6 | 8.7 | 9.5 | 9.8 |
| Q4 | 27.1 | 43 921 | 30 616 | 15.0 | 49.4 | 29.7 | 6.9 | 10.6 | 8.1 | 13.0 |
| Q5 (poorest) | 41.7 | 33 421 | 24 531 | 20.3 | 30.2 | 34.0 | 8.6 | 14.5 | 6.7 | 15.2 |