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By Mogadon Megalodon (anonymous) | Posted February 09, 2013 at 10:57:24 in reply to Comment 86112
While it would be wrong to cast Downtown Hamilton entirely in the negative, it does have very real and significant challenges. Some of these are socioeconomic.
According to Economic Development, in 2006 there were 8,512 residents of Downtown Hamilton (Queen/Wellington/Hunter/Cannon), and almost two-thirds of Downtown residents aged 15 and over had incomes below $20,000 per year.
http://www.investinhamilton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DowntownProfile.pdf
There's greater detail available in SPRC's "Profile of Hamilton's Downtown Area" (January 2012):
"Poverty rates in Hamilton's downtown area are more than twice as high as for the city. More than two in five residents live in poverty. Among children under age six, the poverty rate is 57%, and more than one in three seniors is living on an income below the poverty line.... while the downtown area represents 10% of Hamilton’s population, it has
13% of the city’s female lone parents, 16% of Hamilton’s Aboriginal population, 19% of the city’s visible minority population, 20% of the city’s population with activity limitations, 23% of the city’s population of persons living on incomes below the poverty line, 26% of the city’s recent immigrants, and 32% of the city’s renters living in unaffordable housing...
The poverty rates are about twice as high in the downtown compared to the city overall... The downtown area has a higher rate of residents visiting an emergency room in a given year. The difference between the downtown and the city overall is most pronounced for ER visits for psychiatric concerns, where the rate is more that three dimes higher in the downtown."
http://www.sprc.hamilton.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012-Report-Profile_of_Hamiltons_Downtown_Area_January.pdf
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