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Page 1: Davenport-Perth Neighborhood Centre  Community Profile

Davenport-Perth Neighborhood Centre Community Profile

Data from Statistics Canada, 2006

Census Profile Series,

Community Social Data Strategy (CSDS), 2008

Marcelo Castro

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Context: Strategic Direction on Poverty Reduction (2009-2011)

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cyWe will engage with our community in action and advocacy to address the causes of poverty

Consolidated research and analysis

Increased staff awareness

Integrated community education and learning approach

Identified and prioritized issues for action

Increased community engagement

Strengthened internal and external collaborative links to community engagement strategies

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Implementation Strategy

Research & Education

Research capacity to inform issues to focus

What stories can we tell about the impact of poverty on the lives of the various populations we serve?

Community Engagement

Outreach and mobilization strategies to raise awareness about issues, develop actions to address causes of poverty, and engagement to support poverty reduction strategies

Community Organizing

Long-term strategies to increase community capacity to address causes of poverty and affect changes at systemic level

Community Accountability

Develop capacity to create services to help community to have access to financial services/support and hold community accountable to policy development and implementation

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Progress to Date: Knowledge Building

•11 focus groups with 126 participants across programs;

•Causes of poverty, links to health and opportunities for action; Different realities of poverty manifestation explored•Services needs and issues indentified (Financial Literacy, EI and SA information)

•Clientele Survey and Data Basis to track poverty indicators

•Income & support program, immigration, ethnicity/race, education, language, neighborhood & housing, employment,

•Catchment socio-economic profile

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Demographic Highlights for DPNC’s Catchment

• 56.126 people lived in our catchment in 2006

• Average population growth = - 5.09 %

• Our catchment is in the 2nd most diverse riding in Ontario– 54% of the total population is made up of immigrants

– 12% of immigrants are newcomers arriving between 2001-2006

– 19,085 individuals (34% of total population) are members of visible minority groups

• Median Income of persons 15 years and older is only $20.465

• Average 46% of tenants households pay 30% or more in rent

• Less than 1/3 the of population 25-64 years of age have education beyond high school level.

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Catchment's Boundaries and Census Tracks (CTs)

DPNC

Census Tracks (CTs) are a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census; usually with a population between 2500&8000

Our catchment includes 12 census tracks (CTs)

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General Population Demographics: Breakdown by Census Tracks CT POP % Growth Immigrants Newcomers Visible Min107 5,565 13.40% 54.30% 7.60% 27.90%108 6,540 -3.50% 58.20% 10.9 45.10%111 2,680 -8.30% 56.50% 9.70% 20.60%112 5,260 -8% 58.70% 6.70% 22.60%113 2,725 -8.10% 33.30% 9.90% 22.30%110 3,740 -10% 58.70% 13% 29.30%109 4,110 -7.60% 55.20% 12.40% 30%98 6,675 -6.00% 54.30% 14.70% 35%97_01 4,520 -8.10% 60.20% 15.30% 54%97_02 5,800 2.80% 58.60% 20.40% 36.50%96 5,216 -9.70% 47.10% 11.70% 31.50%95 3,295 -8.00% 48.50% 14.20% 32.60%Total 56,126 -5.09% 54% 12% 34%

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Population by age for catchment in 2006

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Demographic Distribution According to Age for Catchment

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Immigration and Citizenship

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Top 5 regions of birth of recent immigrants (2001-2006)

Eastern Asia

Southern Asia

South America

Southern Europe

Southeast Asia

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Top Visible Minority Groups in the Catchment

Black (24% )Latin American (20.50%)South Asian (18%)Chinese (15%)Southeast Asian (7%)Filipino (4.3%)

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Median income, persons 15 years and over ($)

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Median income

Catchment’s Median = 20,465

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Proportion of economic families with low income (%)

10.60 % - 20.50 %20.60% - 25. 00 %More than 25%

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Proportion of unattached individuals 15 years and over with low income (%)

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Housing Tenure Demographic

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Housing: Value and spending by census tracks

107 108 111 112 113 110 109 98 97_01 97_02 96 95

% of tenants households spending 30% or + income in rent 63.2 45.6 37.5 47.37 34.58 38.1 47.5 50.6 48.07 50.68 42.04 45.54% of owner households spending 30 % or + in owners’ major payments 29.6 34 22.22 30.51 25.71 30.6 33.15 38.6 36.49 23.03 30.08 26.92

Average gross rent $ 977 611 857 910 896 814 933 784 925 843 933 961Average value of dwelling $ 277012 304924 328308 327219 530725 345966 337272 325569 328690 301672 368089 344236

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Education: A major challenge to overcome poverty barriers in our catchment

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Strategic Reflection

• What do we need to know about the community we serve?

• Where have you gone for answers?

• How could the Community Profile or its data source help us to get these?


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