1 / 13

COMMUNITY PROFILE Quinte, Kingston, Rideau (QKR) In partnership with Statistics Canada

COMMUNITY PROFILE Quinte, Kingston, Rideau (QKR) In partnership with Statistics Canada. Community Profile Highlights. Highlights in QKR (2001 to 2006):. Population growth rate triples Substantial growth in Francophone and Aboriginal communities Region’s population is aging

umed
Download Presentation

COMMUNITY PROFILE Quinte, Kingston, Rideau (QKR) In partnership with Statistics Canada

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. COMMUNITY PROFILE Quinte, Kingston, Rideau (QKR) In partnership with Statistics Canada

  2. Community Profile Highlights Highlights in QKR (2001 to 2006): • Population growth rate triples • Substantial growth in Francophone and Aboriginal communities • Region’s population is aging • Youth population growing slowly

  3. Population Growth There were 503,368 people living in QKR, accounting for 4.1% of all Ontarians

  4. Growth Rate Triples QKR’s growth rate is half Ontario’s but has tripled since 2001

  5. Growing Francophone Community • QKR’s Francophone community increased by 5.5% (765 people) to 14,615 people • Francophones comprise less than 3% of QKR’s total population

  6. Strong Growth in Aboriginal Community • QKR’s Aboriginal community increased by almost 50% (4,450 people) to 13,405 people • Aboriginal people are 2.7% of QKR’s total population, proportionately higher than the province overall • More than 33% of the community live in Hastings and 25% live in Frontenac

  7. Strong Growth in Aboriginal Community • Métis form a proportionately larger share of QKR’s Aboriginal community compared to the province as a whole • Inuit make up 2% of QKR’s Aboriginal community, a relatively high proportion compared to most other areas of the province * Multiple Aboriginal Identities ** Aboriginal Identities not included elsewhere

  8. Region is Aging • The population in QKR is older and aging at a faster rate compared to the province overall • The proportion of people aged 65 and over was 16.7% in QKR and 13.6% in Ontario as a whole • All regions within QKR are older and aging at a faster rate than the province as a whole • In QKR, Prince Edward County had the largest proportion of residents who were aged 65 and over (21.7%) and the lowest proportion of seniors living alone

  9. Age Pyramid

  10. Slower Youth Growth Ages 13 - 24 Between 2001 and 2006, QKR’s youth population grew faster than the population overall, but slower than Ontario overall

  11. Community Profile Highlights Top Five Mother Tongues: (other than English & French) • ONTARIO • Italian • Chinese (not specified) • Cantonese • Spanish • German • QKR • German • Dutch • Portuguese • Chinese (not specified) • Italian

  12. Community Profile Highlights • Also of Interest: • More than two in five recent QKR immigrants are from Asia and the Middle East • The Chinese community is the largest visible minority group, followed by the South Asian and Black communities • With the exception of Frontenac, the unemployment rate in all regions was slightly lower than the province overall in 2006 • Youth unemployment rates were higher than the province as a whole, except in Lennox & Addington • The proportion of low-income families in all regions of QKR is well below that of the province, especially in Prince Edward County

  13. Additional Information This document presents highlights from the QKR Community Profile To view the full report, please refer to the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) website at www.trilliumfoundation.org There you will find the Community Profiles for OTF’s 16 catchment areas and the province overall The Community Profiles were produced in partnership with Statistics Canada, using the most recent 2006 Census information We hope that they will be of benefit to Ontario’s not-for-profit sector

More Related