The Hidden Epidemic (A Report On Child & Family Poverty In Toronto)

The Hidden Epidemic
A Report on Child and Family Poverty in Toronto
Figure 3.1. percentage of children Age 0–17 Under Lim-AT
Living in each of Toronto’s 140 neighbourhoods
28
37
32
29
33
43
45
31
32
18
18
29
12
20
32
10
47
37 25
5
28 35 37 36
37
35 32
10 18
33
5
29 35
38 43 22 15
37
36 39
9
7 5
16 12 9
27 24 24 10 7 27
53 46
46
35
30 34
31 21
10
27
24
25 19
19 11
12
5 8
9 27
26
23
18 14
15
13
17
44
12 17
57
16
25 16 19 46
13
18
23 12 45
16 10
27 18
14 22 23 45 48 25
52 63
10
37
29
28 30
12
23
21
31
34
30
Source: Statistics Canada, T1FF,
Table F-18, 2012; City of Toronto,
Social Policy Analysis and Research.
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35
33
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30
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35
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Km
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Legend
Percentage of children 0-17
under LIM-AT (2012)
5% to 14%
15% to 22%
23% to 30%
31% to 39%
40% to 63%
Percentage categories
defined by natural breaks.
Neighbourhood data from 2012 (see Figure 3.1) show a striking range of neighbourhood poverty levels in
Toronto, from a low of 5% in Lawrence Park North and South, Leaside-Bennington and Kingsway South,
to a high of over 50% in Regent Park, Moss Park, Thorncliffe Park and Oakridge (see Appendix B for
an index of neighbourhoods).
Fifteen neighbourhoods (five downtown, four in Thorncliffe and East Toronto, two in Scarborough,
and four in the Northwest of the city) had child poverty rates in 2012 between 40% and 63%. Seventeen
of Scarborough’s 25 neighbourhoods had child poverty rates of over 30%.
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