Table 1.

Characteristics of Inner City Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Income and Immigration Groups, 1996 Canadian Census

Area Characteristics	Study Area	Low-income High-immigration	Low-income Low-immigration	High-income High-immigration	High-income Low-immigration
Female, %	51	51	50	50	52
(range)	(39 to 60)	(42 to 56)	(41 to 56)	(42 to 57)	(39 to 60)
Mean age, y	35	34	35	35	37
(range)	(27 to 46)	(27 to 38)	(32 to 44)	(32 to 38)	(33 to 46)
Recent immigration,*%	9	15	8	14	5
(range)	(0 to 37)	(10 to 37)	(6 to 10)	(10 to 19)	(0 to 10)
Low income,†%	30	36	35	28	17
(range)	(2 to 79)	(30 to 79)	(30 to 56)	(18 to 30)	(2 to 31)
Mean household income,‡	45,263	39,103	41,931	45,858	65,482
Can$ (range)	(18,310 to 231,187)	(18,310 to 56,244)	(24,787 to 48,380)	(36,979 to 72,250)	(38,916 to 231,187)
No high school, %	31	42	40	21	19
(range)	(7 to 62)	(8 to 62)	(14 to 55)	(8 to 59)	(7 to 58)
Visible minority, %	26	41	26	26	14
(range)	(0 to 74)	(21 to 74)	(16 to 44)	(13 to 58)	(0 to 44)
No official language, % (English/French)	5	9	9	3	2
(range)	(0 to 31)	(2 to 31)	(0 to 22)	(1 to 21)	(0 to 19)
Unemployment, %	10	13	12	10	7
(range)	(0 to 29)	(7 to 29)	(8 to 17)	(5 to 13)	(0 to 14)
Not in labor force, %	34	37	37	29	29
(range)	(16 to 54)	(23 to 54)	(26 to 46)	(20 to 45)	(16 to 45)
Number of census tracts	175	68	18	13	76

^*Immigration within the previous 5-year period.

^†As defined by Statistics Canada, identifying households relatively worse off than the national average.

^‡Canadian dollar = 0.64 U.S. dollar in 1996.