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Total Male POPULATION BREAKDOWN ' ll Persons 'verae Ae of Poulation 400 42.8 200 43.1 EDUCATION (25 years & older) % of Pop with less than Grade 9 % of Pop with High School certificate % of Pop with non--University diploma % of P0 with Universit comleted INCOME (15 years & older) ' verae Total Income - 1995 EMPLOYMENT Primary: Agriculture/Resource Based 40 25 Secondary: Construction/Manufacturing 10 10 Tertira : Service 170 100 Female 195 14,550 » 42.4 Total Male Female 7,570 34. 6 6, 980 35. 8 36.3 $27,864 $31 966 $23,014 $25,054 $30 332 $19 542 $27 309 $33 599 21 0 145 55 1, 285 1,055 225 5, 620 2 735 2, 980 170,430 1,212,995 4 017 975 10,753,575 5,257,910 5,495,665 28,846,760 117,720 906,560 1 870 035 2 147 935 Female Total Male Female 14,170,025 34.7 14,676,735 36.9 36.8 35.8 $21 048 $25 196 $31,117 $19,208 52,710 306.435 802,330 2,862,195 10 653 020 588,130 2,178,150 5,002 210 214,200 684,045 5 650 810 A SNAPSHOT OF AMHERST ISLAND FROM THE 1996 CENSUS The above data is taken from the 1996 Census information available on the Stats Canada web site. That is, except for Loyalist Township which didn't exist in 1996. This information has been roughly calculated using Amherst Island, Bath and Emestown data. A word of warning... the Loyalist Township information should be considered an approximation only... it does seem to be a pretty fair representation though. One further point to make is that some informationjust doesn't add up (ie Amherst Island's population of400 isn't the sum of200 males and 195 females). The reason... well, you would have to ask Stats Canada about that. What they do say is that they employ random rounding and they use area suppression to protect the privacy of individuals. So, if there were only a few of a specific recognizable category, Stats Canada might not even report them in the publicly available charts. So, what can we glean from the table above... Amherst Island is significantly older ...exactly 7 years older... than Loyalist as a whole, or either of Ontario or Canada. The Loyalist Township average ages are remarkably close to those of Ontario or Canada. If we had the same population distribution as these other areas, we would have upwards of 31 more children under 15 years old (or upwards of 15 more kids between 5 and 14). Men are both worse and better educated than any of the larger population groups. There is a higher percentage with no high school and there is a higher percentage with high school through university. Women are better educated through the end 0: high school but then fall behind a little when compared to Loyalist, Ontario or Canada. Both men's and women's data probably reflects Amherst Island's dual nature of being a long established farming community where education was a luxury and a newer bedroom community. ci her our own results from the data above. Total income torAmherst Island shows for males, females and combined total to be above that of Loyalist, Ontario or Canada. It was a surprise to see that Loyalist income is below that of Ontario but very close to that of Canada as a whole. The employment picture is also skewed when it comes to Amherst Island. We have 18.2% ofthe population over 14 years old employed in primary industries (mainly agriculture). By the way, this employment data was measured for one week only (early in May of 1996) and may not accurately reflect the whole year. Loyalist comes a lot closer to the Ontario and Canadian averages but with somewhat higher service industry participation and lower primary and secondary (manufacturing and construction). Even as is, it is well worth remembering that farming is a major employer on the Island (even ifit is merely a shadow of its former self). Well, I thing that is enough for now.... you can