Table 4 Summary statistics of socio-economic and demographic features of identified neighbourhood types in Hamilton, 2004. Data source: Statistics Canada, 2001 census. NT = Neighbourhood type. The sum of the populations from the 5 neighbourhood types is not 490,268 due to missing data in one census tract.
Variable | Means | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Hamilton | NT A | NT B | NT C | NT D | NT E |
Persons with <grade 9 education (%) | 10.3 | 11.3 | 4.7 | 9.2 | 13.7 | 16.9 |
New immigrants (%) | 3.2 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 6.6 |
Visible minority (%) | 10.9 | 9.4 | 4.2 | 14.4 | 5.6 | 20.7 |
Aboriginal persons (%) | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 4.1 |
Median income ($) | 22927 | 22262 | 30351 | 25958 | 22837 | 16250 |
Government transfer income (%) | 12.1 | 15.9 | 7.3 | 8.3 | 13.4 | 23.2 |
Low income (%) | 19.8 | 21.7 | 5.6 | 12.7 | 10.7 | 42.4 |
Persons not speaking English or French (%) | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.33 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 4.4 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 6.4 | 5.7 | 2.2 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 10.1 |
Average dwelling value ($) | 166783 | 125271 | 224342 | 173801 | 162157 | 89174 |
Owner-occupied dwellings (%) | 65.2 | 61.9 | 87.4 | 81.8 | 86.7 | 34.7 |
Population under 20 years old (%) | 26.1 | 23.5 | 27.5 | 33.6 | 21.2 | 23.6 |
Population 65 years or older (%) | 14.3 | 17.2 | 13.2 | 7.2 | 21.0 | 14.3 |
Single-parent families (%) | 16.6 | 19.9 | 9.5 | 15.4 | 10.7 | 25.7 |
Married (%) | 51.7 | 47.3 | 60.9 | 58.9 | 58.5 | 35.7 |
Live alone (%) | 10.3 | 13.3 | 5.4 | 2.9 | 8.7 | 21.1 |
Internal migrants (%) | 10.6 | 9.2 | 14.5 | 7.7 | 6.9 | 12.2 |
Population Density (No. of persons per Km2) | 438.9 | 3627.4 | 357.1 | 2543.2 | 2352.1 | 5706.0 |
Population (count) | 490268 | 160438 | 112875 | 82976 | 47137 | 86683 |