Table 4 |
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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. |
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Variable |
Means |
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Hamilton |
NT A |
NT B |
NT C |
NT D |
NT E |
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Persons with <grade 9 education (%) |
10.3 |
11.3 |
4.7 |
9.2 |
13.7 |
16.9 |
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New immigrants (%) |
3.2 |
3.4 |
0.9 |
2.7 |
1.2 |
6.6 |
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Visible minority (%) |
10.9 |
9.4 |
4.2 |
14.4 |
5.6 |
20.7 |
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Aboriginal persons (%) |
2.2 |
2.6 |
1.0 |
1.6 |
3.0 |
4.1 |
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Median income ($) |
22927 |
22262 |
30351 |
25958 |
22837 |
16250 |
|
Government transfer income (%) |
12.1 |
15.9 |
7.3 |
8.3 |
13.4 |
23.2 |
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Low income (%) |
19.8 |
21.7 |
5.6 |
12.7 |
10.7 |
42.4 |
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Persons not speaking English or French (%) |
1.8 |
1.6 |
0.33 |
1.6 |
1.6 |
4.4 |
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Unemployment rate (%) |
6.4 |
5.7 |
2.2 |
4.2 |
3.5 |
10.1 |
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Average dwelling value ($) |
166783 |
125271 |
224342 |
173801 |
162157 |
89174 |
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Owner-occupied dwellings (%) |
65.2 |
61.9 |
87.4 |
81.8 |
86.7 |
34.7 |
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Population under 20 years old (%) |
26.1 |
23.5 |
27.5 |
33.6 |
21.2 |
23.6 |
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Population 65 years or older (%) |
14.3 |
17.2 |
13.2 |
7.2 |
21.0 |
14.3 |
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Single-parent families (%) |
16.6 |
19.9 |
9.5 |
15.4 |
10.7 |
25.7 |
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Married (%) |
51.7 |
47.3 |
60.9 |
58.9 |
58.5 |
35.7 |
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Live alone (%) |
10.3 |
13.3 |
5.4 |
2.9 |
8.7 |
21.1 |
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Internal migrants (%) |
10.6 |
9.2 |
14.5 |
7.7 |
6.9 |
12.2 |
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Population Density (No. of persons per Km2) |
438.9 |
3627.4 |
357.1 |
2543.2 |
2352.1 |
5706.0 |
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Population (count) |
490268 |
160438 |
112875 |
82976 |
47137 |
86683 |
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Odoi et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:20 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-4-20 |
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