Economic Environments
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According to the 2001
census, the percentage of children living in low income families was 11.8% in Leeds
Grenville and Lanark (LGL) compared to 17.0% in Ontario (fig1_economic).
In 2001, almost 10% of all people living in private households lived below the
low-income cut-off in LGL, compared to the provincial figure of over 14%. For LGL
there a decrease from 1996, when the proportion was about 12%. The low income
proportion of unattached persons 15 years and over was about 26%, compared to 43% for
Ontario as a whole.
Housing affordability is described as the percentage of households that spend 30%
or more of total household income on shelter expenses. In LGL this measure was 42.1%
for renters, similar to Ontario at 41.9%, and 13.8% for owners, compared to 17.3 % for
Ontario (fig2_economic).
The unemployment rate in 2002 , for the labour force age 15 and over , was 8.2 % in
LGL, and 7.15% in Ontario.
The youth unemployment rate, for persons in the labour force aged 15 to 24, was
18.1 in LGL compared to 13.9 in Ontario in 2002.
The Canadian Community Health Survey 2000/01 asked about food security in
households. Over 10% of households worried in the previous year about having enough to
eat due to lack of money; a much smaller proportion reported that they did not have
enough to eat (fig3_economic). |
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