Low Income Explorer

This map colours each region by the percentage of people in poverty by the LIM-AT or LICO-AT measure by age group, depending on which metric is selected. For an explanation of how these measures are computed see the section at the bottom. We grey out areas with fewer than 50 people as statistical rounding can severely distort the results. For either measure, poverty status is determined based on income, excluding non-regular income like capital gains or lump sum RRSP withdrawals. As LIM-AT is tied to the median income, it is really more a measure of income inequality than of poverty. LICO-AT is an expenditure-based metric (adjusted to inflation). Cutoffs LIM-AT LIM-AT is a relative income measure, it captures how many people live below 50% of the adjusted median after-tax household income. It depends on the (square root of) the household size, below is a list with explicit income cutoffs: 1 person: 22,133 2 persons: 31,301 3 persons: 38,335 4 persons: 44,266 5 persons: 49,491 6 persons: 54,215 7 persons: 58,558 LICO-AT LICO is based on expenditure, it captures people or families that are expected to spend 20 percentage points or more of their after-tax income than average on food, shelter and clothing. The income cutoffs depend on the size of the economic region the people live in as detailed in the table below. Economic family size Size of area of residence Rural area Small population centres with less than 30,000 persons Medium population centres with a population between 30,000 and 99,999 persons Large urban population centres Population between 100,000 and 499,999 persons Population 500,000 persons or more Person not in an economic family 13,335 15,261 17,025 17,240 20,386 2 persons 16,230 18,576 20,722 20,982 24,811 3 persons 20,211 23,129 25,802 26,128 30,895 4 persons 25,213 28,856 32,191 32,596 38,544 5 persons 28,711 32,859 36,657 37,118 43,890 6 persons 31,841 36,441 40,654 41,165 48,675 7 or more persons 34,972 40,024 44,649 45,211 53,460 Source: Income Research Paper Series – Low Income Lines 2015-2016. Statistics Canada, Catalogue no.  75F0002MIE, 2017, no.  002 .

Author: CensusMapper Team

Dataset: CA16