Canadian statistics you might find interesting

•Fully one-quarter of Canadian households spent 30 per cent or more of their total income on shelter. They paid an average of $1,259 a month, surpassing the 30 per cent mark by an average of $510.

•Ten per cent of Canadians earned more than $80,400 in 2010, averaging $134,900; the top one per cent averaged $381,300, most living in Ontario and Alberta. The bottom 90 per cent of Canadians earned an average of $28,000.

•Sixty-nine per cent of households in Canada — 9.2 million  — owned their dwelling in 2011.

•4.8 million Canadians, or 14.9 per cent lived in low income housing

•Four out of five households that purchased a home between 2006 and 2011 had a mortgage; one in five bought a condominium.

•In 2010, more than 95 per cent of Canadians aged 15 and older collected some form of income with a median total of $29,900; 70 per cent received some government transfers — Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance, or old age security benefits

•Employment income accounted for 87.8 per cent of total income in the Northwest Territories, the highest in the country. At the other end of the spectrum was Prince Edward Island at 68.6 per cent of total income.

 

Statistic Canada – from 2011 census raw data