For the analysis of income, Statistics Canada distinguishes between the following statistical units:
- Households: "a person or group of persons who occupy the same dwelling"[1]
- Economic families: "two or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law union, adoption or a foster relationship (a couple may be of opposite or same sex)"[2]
- Census families: "a married couple and the children, if any, of either and/or both spouses; a couple living common law and the children, if any, of either and/or both partners; or a lone parent of any marital status with at least one child living in the same dwelling and that child or those children (all members of a particular census family live in the same dwelling; a couple may be of opposite or same sex)"[3]
Therefore, a person living alone constitutes a household, but not an economic or census family. Two couples sharing a dwelling constitute a single household, but two economic or census families. A couple living with its children and one spouse's parents constitutes a single household or economic family, but two census families.
Income statistics by census metropolitan area (CMA) are published:
- every 5 years for households (data from the Census of Population)
- annually for economic families, for select CMAs (data from the Canadian Income Survey)
- annually for census families (data from the T1 Family File)
The income concept for this article is total income.[4]
Median Household and Family Income by Census Metropolitan Area Edit
| Census Metropolitan Area | Median Income, Households 2020 (CAD)[5] |
Median Income, Census Families 2020 (CAD)[6] |
Median Income, Economic Families and Persons not in an Economic Family 2021 (CAD)[7] |
Median Income, Economic Families 2021 (CAD)[8] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Buffalo | 182000 | 175450 | ||
| Oshawa | 102000 | 106460 | ||
| Calgary | 100000 | 109520 | 88100 | 128800 |
| Ottawa-Gatineau | 98000 | 117820 | 91500 | 127200 |
| Guelph | 97000 | 109020 | ||
| Barrie | 97000 | 100700 | ||
| Toronto | 97000 | 96700 | 86800 | 118700 |
| Edmonton | 96000 | 107450 | 88600 | 124900 |
| Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo | 92000 | 101690 | ||
| Hamilton | 91000 | 103820 | ||
| Abbotsford-Mission | 91000 | 89280 | ||
| Regina | 90000 | 106340 | ||
| Vancouver | 90000 | 98640 | 80100 | 115400 |
| Saskatoon | 89000 | 102830 | ||
| Kamloops | 87000 | 100550 | ||
| Victoria | 85000 | 106900 | ||
| St. John's | 85000 | 104630 | ||
| Red Deer | 85000 | 99860 | ||
| Kelowna | 85000 | 97390 | ||
| Brantford | 85000 | 89850 | ||
| Greater Sudbury | 84000 | 105110 | ||
| Lethbridge | 84000 | 98360 | ||
| Kingston | 83000 | 101560 | ||
| Winnipeg | 83000 | 95660 | 76600 | 104700 |
| Windsor | 82000 | 92180 | ||
| Chilliwack | 82000 | 91370 | ||
| Halifax | 81000 | 98440 | ||
| Thunder Bay | 80000 | 99560 | ||
| London | 79500 | 94070 | ||
| Fredericton | 79000 | 95750 | ||
| Peterborough | 79000 | 90770 | ||
| Belleville | 78000 | 88580 | ||
| Nanaimo | 77500 | 91480 | ||
| St. Catharines–Niagara | 77000 | 87510 | ||
| Québec | 76500 | 104860 | 73000 | 108200 |
| Montréal | 76000 | 96130 | 72800 | 111400 |
| Moncton | 74500 | 88530 | ||
| Saint John | 74000 | 89750 | ||
| Saguenay | 70000 | 94150 | ||
| Sherbrooke | 65000 | 90460 | ||
| Drummondville | 64000 | 85560 | ||
| Trois-Rivières | 62400 | 88020 |
References Edit
- ^ Statistics Canada (April 16, 2012). "Household". www23.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ^ Statistics Canada (November 16, 2015). "Economic family". www23.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ^ Statistics Canada (November 16, 2015). "Census family". www23.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ^ Statistics Canada (September 13, 2017). "Dictionary, Census of Population, 2016 - Total income". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
- ^ Statistics Canada (March 29, 2023). "Household total income group by household characteristics: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
- ^ Statistics Canada (August 9, 2022). "Selected income characteristics of census families by family type". www150.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- ^ Statistics Canada (May 2, 2023). "Market income, government transfers, total income, income tax and after-tax income by economic family type". www150.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
- ^ Statistics Canada (May 2, 2023). "Market income, government transfers, total income, income tax and after-tax income by economic family type". www150.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved May 2, 2023.