Census 2016: highlights from latest report on Canadian income levels
OTTAWA — Highlights from Statistics Canada’s latest release Wednesday of census data, this one focused on Canadian income levels:
— The median total income of Canadian households reached $70,336 in 2015, a 10.8 per cent increase from $63,457 in 2005.
— Nearly 1.2 million children under 18, about 17 per cent of Canada’s 6.8 million kids, lived in a low-income household, comprising roughly one quarter of the 4.8 million people living under low-income conditions in 2015.
— Of children living with two parents, 11.2 per cent lived in low-income households, while that increased to 38.9 per cent in households with one parent; for those living with their mother, the low-income rate was 42 per cent, but 25.5 per cent for those living with their father.