Federal Election 2008 – Peel Speaks Out
What We Told Them
Peel’s Trends
- Increasing numbers of high risk families
- Peel’s affordable housing crisis is worst in Ontario
- Infrastructure costs are escalating
- Immigrants are losing ground: increasing unemployment and earnings gap
- Youth violence is increasing
- More single parent families
- Aging population
- Gridlock getting worse
Rapid Growth, Growing Diversity
- Second fastest growth rate in Ontario:
- 219,000 residents in 1974
- 1.2 million residents today
- 1.64 million residents by 2031
- 219,000 residents in 1974
- Average of 34,000 new residents each year (2006 Census)
- 27,000 new immigrants each year (80% of annual growth)
- Peel’s immigration growth rate was double its overall population growth rate: (32% vs. 17.4%) between 2001 and 2006
- Multiple-family households in Peel, where more than one family lives in a house or apartment, are largely comprised of immigrant families and are the fastest growing households in Peel: 31% growth versus 16% growth of all Peel households
- 16,340 births in 2007; birthrate of 12.9/1,000 population vs.10.6 rate for Ontario (2004)
- 104,000 seniors (65+): almost 10% of population in 2006
- increased by 33% between 2001 and 2006
(Sources: Peel Planning Services, Human Services, Health Services)
- increased by 33% between 2001 and 2006
Revised: Tuesday September 23 2008
