Census & National Household Survey 2011: Strathroy-Caradoc Introduction
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Most of these graphs and tables have been sitting on my computer for a while and would have just stayed there but for two things. First, I saw a report for a local area that covered some of the same ground, which told me I wasn’t the only person interested in this stuff. There were also some inaccurate figures in the report (one very significant) and I realized there aren’t many of us going over these numbers who can help spot each other’s mistakes … and mistakes will happen. There may be some here.
Introduction .............................................................. 1 Population................................................................. 2 Median age ............................................................... 5 Occupations .............................................................. 7 “Creative” occupations ........................................... 10 Population density .................................................. 11 University degree .................................................... 12 Any university or college degree, diploma, certificate ................................................................ 13 Employment in manufacturing ............................... 15 Employment in agriculture ..................................... 16 Relative strengths in employment.......................... 17 Median family income ............................................ 18 Median dwelling value ............................................ 19 Immigrants .............................................................. 20 Visible minorities .................................................... 21 Family doctors......................................................... 22
Second, SWEA recently started distributing reports about Southwestern Ontario that are also based on Statistics Canada data, although ones updated much more frequently. Information from the Census and National Household Survey is a good complement to those reports. It’s mostly a personal interest or hobby, partly fuelled by my experience in helping create the startup community in Waterloo and—after moving to Strathroy in 2010—analyzing differences between communities as I looked at how to adapt the success we had in Waterloo and the lessons learned there to help boost entrepreneurship-based economic development in other parts of Southwestern Ontario. For the last year, I’ve been doing this as a roving executive-in-residence at Communitech, covering the region. It’s written from a Strathroy-Caradoc perspective, but includes a lot of data about all of Southwestern Ontario. Apologies for some of the text sizes. Reading glasses … or a zoom … may be required! Gary Will gary@garywill.com www.garywill.com January 2014
Almost all of the data used in these pages came from the 2011 Census and National Household Survey, the final batch of which were released by Statistics Canada in 2013. There’s also data from the 2006 Census used for period-over-period comparisons.