Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Development Department
October 2015
Profile
Demographics and
Socio-Economic Data
Table of Contents
Population 4
Social characteristics 6
Households 8
Employment 10
Agriculture 14
Notes 17
Population
• Durham’s population has increased significantly, from 247,473 in 1974 to
656,055 at the end of 2014.
• Growth was greatest in the five year period between 1986 and 1991,
when the population increased by 25.4%.
2/3 of
the population
growth in the Durham
Toronto - 43.2 %
Peel - 21.4 %
last 5 years is 10% York - 17.1 %
of GTA
is from population Durham - 10 %
Halton - 8.3 %
immigration
Ajax - 18 %
Brock - 1.9 %
Municipal Clarington - 13.9 %
share Oshawa - 24.6 %
of Durham Pickering - 14.6 %
population Scugog - 3.5 %
Uxbridge - 3.4 %
Whitby - 20.1 %
population growth
750,000
population
500,000 20.0%
250,000 10.0%
0.0%
1976 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011
85+
Female to male age comparison
80-84
75-79
in Durham’s population
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
656,055
35-39 Estimated population,
30-34 December 2014
25-29
20-24
15-19
Females Males
10-14
5-9
0-4
12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Europe Asia
North
America
70.6%
12.8%
32.3%
Caribbean
6.6%
Africa
2.4%
South
America
2.4%
Oceania
0.2%
*Note: values do not add to 100% due
to people with multiple ethnicities
Scugog 30-44%
45-59%
Pickering
=>60%
Oshawa 0
SCALE
2.5 5
Kilometres
10
Clarington
Brock
Ajax
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000
French
Filipino - 2%
Visible Latin American - 0.7%
Minorities
South Asian - 5.7%
Tamil
West Asian - 0.6%
Cantonese
Persian
• Over 90% of households in Durham were located within urban areas, and over
99% of households in Oshawa and Ajax were urban.
• In 2014, the average cost for a resale home was $391,692 and the average
monthly rent was $1,000.
68% 6% 83%
live in live in a
single-detached semi-detached
house house OWN
$391,692
16%
10% 17%
households households
0 2.5 5 10
Kilometres
4%
5 persons
4 persons
2.8 3 persons
people per
household 2 persons
1 person
• In 2014, Durham Region’s Business Count reported over 170,000 jobs and
over 11,000 businesses.
Transportation to work
Public Transit
10.0%
Car, truck, Car, truck,
van as driver van as
passenger Walked
79.5% to work Bicycle
6.1%
3.1% 0.4%
Other
method
1.0%
Business Count
By DA
0 - 10
11 - 38
39 - 87
1,085
10%
88 - 190
191 - 641
SCALE
0 2.5 5 10
Vacancy
Kilometres
rate for
6.3% 8.6%
businesses,
2014
2006 2011
Businesses
40000 2500
2000
30000
Jobs
1500
20000
1000
10000 500
0 0
Ajax Brock Clarington Oshawa Pickering Scugog Uxbridge Whitby
• 25% of Durham residents spent over 30% of their income on shelter costs.
• The prevalence of low income was lower in Durham (9.9%) in contrast to the
GTA (14.5%) and Ontario (10.9%).
$100,000 $44,443
average income
$80,000 per individual
$60,000
$40,000
$34,906
$20,000 median income
per individual
$0
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Average Median
20.0%
10%
prevalence of
low income
15.0%
low income
in Durham
10.0%
13%
prevalence of
5.0%
low-income for
children less
0.0% than 6 years
Durham GTA
• The majority of farmers are 55 years and older (55.2%) and most farmers are
male (69.9%).
• Over a third of farms are 130 acres or more, while about 5% of farms are less
than 5 acres.
Farms in Durham
Poultry and egg Sheep and Fruit and tree Vegetable and Hog and
production 48 goat farming 44 nut farming 42 melon farming 40 pig farming 3
25-100ac
100-150
150-200
22%
=>200
70 to 129 acres
37% 10 to 69 acres
$2,642,495,110
Market value of all farms in Durham, 2010
225
56.5
200
years
average age
175
of operators
in Durham,
150
2011
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