Urban Poverty in Canada

Statistical Profile: Trois-Rivières

Table B4.5

Trois-Rivières
    Total Poor Distribution of total Distribution of poor Poverty rate
Unattached Individuals   11,000 6,400 100% 100% 58%
  Non-elderly women 4,100 2,500 37% 39% 61%
Non-elderly men 3,900 2,200 35% 34% 57%
Elderly women 2,400 1,400 21% 22% 60%
Elderly men 700 300 6% 5% 45%
 
Economic Families   12,800 2,900 100% 100% 23%
  Couples with no children < 18 6,400 1,000 50% 36% 16%
Couples with children < 18 3,500 600 28% 20% 16%
Lone-parent families < 18 1,600 1,000 13% 35% 63%
Other families 1,200 300 10% 10% 24%
 
Non-elderly family 10,200 2,600 80% 88% 25%
Elderly family 2,600 300 20% 12% 14%
 
Children 0-17 in families   8,300 2,600 100% 100% 31%
  Aged 0-5 2,700 1,000 32% 39% 38%
Aged 6-17 5,600 1,600 68% 61% 28%
 
All persons   46,400 14,300 100% 100% 31%
  Aged 0-14 6,700 2,200 14% 16% 33%
Aged 15-24 7,000 2,900 15% 20% 41%
Aged 25-34 6,600 2,200 14% 16% 34%
Aged 35-44 7,200 1,800 16% 13% 25%
Aged 45-54 6,500 1,500 14% 10% 23%
Aged 55-64 5,100 1,400 11% 10% 28%
Aged 65-74 4,700 1,300 10% 9% 27%
Aged 75+ 2,600 1,000 6% 7% 37%
 
Females 24,500 8,200 53% 57% 33%
Males 21,900 6,100 47% 43% 28%
 
Population groups (all persons)*   46,400 14,300 100% 100% 31%
  Recent immigrants 200 100 0% 1% 41%
Visible minorities 600 300 1% 2% 47%
Aboriginal identity 200 100 0% 1% 75%
With disabilities 4,200 2,300 9% 16% 54%
 
Education level (aged 15-64)   32,400 9,800 100% 100% 30%
  Post-secondary certificate 12,400 2,600 38% 26% 21%
Secondary 8,100 2,400 25% 25% 30%
Less than secondary 11,900 4,800 37% 49% 40%
 
Employment activity (aged 15-64)   32,400 9,800 100% 100% 30%
  Full-time, full year employment 9,500 600 29% 6% 7%
Part-time, full year employment 2,100 400 6% 5% 22%
Part-time, part year employment 9,900 3,000 31% 31% 30%
No employment in 1995 11,000 5,800 34% 59% 52%
 
Sources of income (non-elderly economic families)            
  Average total income $47,100 $11,400  
Average earnings $44,200 $6,700
Average government transfers $5,600 $6,800
 
Income deficiency (non-elderly economic families)            
  Number with incomes < .5 of LICO   900  
Average poverty gap $9,900
Average market gap** $14,600
 
* Population groups not mutually exclusive.
**Market gap based on income of market-poor families.
Notes: see Glossary for definitions of terms. A margin of error may be present due to rounding of figures. Percentages based on unrounded figures.

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