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The gap between rich and poor is widening in the GTA, according to data from the 2016 census.

Thestar.com
Nov. 9, 2017
By Cameron Tulk

Across the GTA, the gap between rich and poor is widening while middle-income areas are disappearing, a United Way analysis of census data shows.

According to the 2016 census, the average individual income before taxes in the GTA in 2015 was $50,719. That is more than both Ontario's average of $47,890 and Canada's $46,885 average.

"What's sobering is that the majority of all the neighbourhoods in the GTA are segregated into either high- or low-income and the middle is vanishing. This is no longer just a Toronto or city issue," said United Way President and CEO Daniele Zanotti.

The richest census tract in the GTA is in Rosedale bordering Summerhill Ave., just east of Mt. Pleasant Rd., with an average individual income of $419,676. (Census tracts are small, relatively stable areas defined by Statistics Canada that make up between around 2,500 and 8,000 people.)

About 10 kilometres to the east, in Scarborough just west of Victoria Park near Pharmacy Ave., the average income was $18,759 - the low for any GTA census tract.

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