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Table 2 Demographic information for areas surrounding schools

From: A program evaluation of Kids2Hear, a student-run hearing screening program for school children

 

Ward A (School 1 and 3)

Ward B (School 2)

Toronto

Annual household income

$67,305

$60, 550

$87,038

Proportion with household income less than $20,000

15 %

23 %

15 %

Incidence of low income households

23 %

20 %

19 %

Born outside of Canada

41 %

59 %

51 %

Unemployment rate

9.1

10

9.3

No high school diploma

16 %

36 %

18 %

Proportion of visible minorities

33 %

54 %

49 %

  1. A “ward” is one of the sections into which a city is divided for political/electoral purposes
  2. Information obtained from Statistics Canada, National Household Survey (2011) [16]