The three cities within Toronto : Income polarization among Toronto's neighbourhoods, 1970-2005

Over the course of 35 years, the pattern of who lives where Many of the questions asked in the 1971 census are still in Toronto on the basis of socio-economic characteristics has used in current census forms; therefore it is possible to analyse changed dramatically. [...] Projection by R. Maaranen 2), average individual incomes in 66% of the city’s census THE NUMBER OF MIDDLE-INCOME NEIGHBOURHOODS tracts (341 census tracts), were close to the average income for IN THE CITY OF TORONTO HAS DECLINED the. [...] The decline in the number of middle-income neighbour- AGE PROFILE CITY OF hoods has also occurred in the rest of the CMA, although to a CITY 1 CITY 2 CITY 3 TORONTO smaller extent. [...] However, in the five years between 2001 and 2006, the population of City #2 and City #3 declined slightly, while the population of City #1 increased, primarily because of new residential condominium development in the central area of the city. [...] In the City of Toronto, in 25% of all census tracts, aver- or more years in each of the neighbourhood groups age individual income consistently went down relative to the CMA average during each census period; most of these census tracts (115 CITY OF CITY 1 CITY 2 CITY 3 out of 128) are in City #3 (Table 2, line 2).