Identifying income shortfalls assists us in enhancing our community by helping those who need it most. Differences in income have caused the "wealth gap" to widen; in addition, it appears that wealthy people live longer, and that they're healthier at every stage of their lives. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Statistics Canada. "Income Trends in Canada 1976-2007". Table 202-0802 titled "Persons in low income, Canada, provinces and select CMAs."  Based on SLID data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: OMBI 2007

 

 

4-3 Pre-Tax Overall Poverty Rate

Source: Statistics Canada.  Small Area Administrative Data.  Family characteristics, Low Income Measures (LIM), by family type and family type composition, annual.

 

 

 

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Waterloo Region	10.5	5.6	6.7	6.4	6.9	9	8.2	7.7
Ontario	10.8	9.3	10.7	10.4	11	10.3	10.3	8.8
Canada	12.5	11.2	11.6	11.6	11.4	10.8	10.5	9.2

Source: Data for After tax are from the 2006 Census Community Profiles, while Before Tax data are from Statistics Canada Census topic based tabulations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Note:  2001-2004 based on tax-filings, 2005 based on Census reporting

Source: Statistics Canada http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil107a.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Statistics Canada.  Cansim Table 202-0203. Based on SLID.

 

 

 

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Waterloo Region	$54,600	$55,400	$55,200	$58,300	$59,500	$59,000	$62,100	$57,600
Ontario	$53,700	$54,500	$54,700	$57,200	$59,400	$60,600	$61,700	$62,600
Canada	$48,800	$49,100	$49,400	$50,900	$52,600	$53,400	$55,600	$55,500
	2003	2004	2005	2006
Waterloo Region	$60,800	$60,400	$64,300	$65,100
Ontario	$61,800	$61,700	$62,200	$62,400
Canada	$55,400	$56,200	$57,100	$58,300

Source: Statistics Canada. Income Trends in Canada 1980-2005. Table 202-0605 titled "Median after-tax income, by economic family type, 2006 constant dollars, Canada, provinces and select CMAs". Based on SLID.

 

 

 

                                       Canada     Ontario         Waterloo
                                                                              Region

Under $5,000                    1.23          1.32                0.91

$5,000 to $9,999               1.17          1.13                0.87

$10,000 to $14,999           1.89          1.68                1.33

$15,000 to $19,999           2.57          2.28                1.82

$20,000 to $24,999           3.66          3.08                2.27

$25,000 to $29,999           4.54          3.74                3.09

$30,000 to $34,999           4.72          4.03                3.59

$35,000 to $39,999           5.11          4.57                4.19

$40,000 to $44,999           5.02          4.42                4.37

$45,000 to $49,999           4.85          4.37                4.37

$50,000 to $59,999           9.46          8.63                8.73

$60,000 to $69,999           8.95          8.48                9.15

$70,000 to $79,999           8.15          8.04                8.85

$80,000 to $89,999           7.16          7.36                8.59

$90,000 to $99,999           6.05          6.41                7.42

$100,000 to $124,999     10.76        12.07              12.99

$125,000 to $149,999       5.99          7.21                7.28

$150,000 and over            8.72        11.19              10.15

 

Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population, Statistics Canada catalogue no. 97-563-XCB2006023.