The Town of Essex is first of the communities that I am working on that has a ward system. As you can see from the map above, there is not a exact alignment between the Census boundaries and the municipal wards. The difference although visually large, from a population basis they tend to extend one roadway or concession over. As a result the variation between the wards is not significant enough to cause major variation in this data but due to the Ward not not being equal from a population standpoint apples to apples comparisons are more complicated.

	Town Total	Ward 1	Ward 2	Ward 3	Ward 4
Total Population 2016	20,427	7467	4422	6221	2317
Total Population 2011	19,190	6955	3990	2317	2365
Average Population Density (Per Square KM)	977.81	1730.85	529.28	70.33	1357.15
% Pop under 19	21.80%	24.30%	19.45%	20.50%	21.20%
% Pop over 65	19.10%	19.11%	19.54$	18.10%	20.54%
Total Single Parent Families	870	390	140	225	115
% of Female Led Single Parent Families	78.90%	87.30%	72.10%	74.10%	70.80%

Income
After Tax Median Income	$        32,787	$        32,526	$        37,252	$        37,423	$        32,816
After Tax Average Income	$        37,527	$        35,729	$        37,928	$        41,855	$        32,724
Low Income Rate (LIM)	9.40%	11.52%	7.30%	7.84%	9.93%
% of population in the bottom income decile	6.09%	7.25%	5.28%	5.05%	5.82%
% of population in the top income decile	7.54%	6.32%	8.17%	10.25%	4.34%

 

% of Public Transit Users to reach Employment

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Total – Occupied private dwellings by number of bedrooms	8080	3100	1600	2405	995
No bedrooms	10	10	0	0	0
1 bedroom	580	330	90	95	65
2 bedrooms	1910	745	400	550	195
3 bedrooms	3630	1330	755	1060	485
4 or more bedrooms	1950	685	355	700	210

Household Wealth
Number of Households with and income greater than $150,000	250	65	55	120	10

Employment in Essex
31-33 Manufacturing	21%
62 Health care and social assistance	13%
44-45 Retail trade	11%
23 Construction	7%
72 Accommodation and food services	6%