The Big Atlantic Canada Statistics Thread

[kwajo]

Originally Posted by mmmatt

Hotel nights sold stats are in for NB for last year, I again had to get this via email from the tourism dept. however they said next year it will be available again in the annual report



See below for the change in nights sold over the last year and the last 10 years.

Awesome to see everyone had a good 2016 on the positive side!

Looks like this year is shaping up to be another good one for Saint John.

"Discover Saint John, the city’s destination marketing organization, says the hotel occupancy rate for June is up by more than 20 per cent over June of last year."

http://globalnews.ca/news/3639887/sa...lated-numbers/

[MonctonRad]

There's an interesting French language website that shows a dot map of linguistic distribution of populations for the entire country based on the most recent census data. The red dots are anglophone and the blue dots are francophone. The other dots are for other languages, which although important elsewhere (Toronto & Vancouver), don't matter too much for Atlantic Canada. Green is Chinese, yellow is Punjabi, purple is aboriginal etc.

The map is interactive, scalable and very interesting to play with. The web address is http://vt.anagraph.io/recensement/languesmaternelles/

Here are the major CMAs/CAs for Atlantic Canada (all to scale).

Halifax


St. John's


Moncton


Saint John


Fredericton


Sydney


Charlottetown

[Monctoncore]

Interesting if you zoom in on Moncton there are a lot of pink dots which represents Arab speaking people. As well Charlottetown has a lot of green dots.

[Taeolas]

Cool maps. Freddy has less blue than I might've expected; but it seems more evenly mixed around the city.

Not unexpectedly, a lot of chinese language around the university. I am curious what the "Other" language(s) are, since we seem to have a fairly large number of white on the map as well. And sadly (IMO) not enough purple on the map, especially around St Marys.

[Sunnybrae]

It kinda calls into question these maps considering the Moncton airport has a bunch of dots. I'm sure its just a representation in a general area but still.... that many dots at the airport?

[MonctonRad]

The dot distribution is not entirely accurate. They took the information down to the smallest geographical statistical unit and then distributed the dots randomly within that unit, hence you get some dots distributed in airports and within rivers.

Still a neat map though.

[Taeolas]

Yeah I realized there had to be some random distribution going on; otherwise you'd be able to tell/guess where the Italian speaker is in Fredericton because there's a dot at the corner of Dundonald and Westmoreland.

It was especially obvious when I zoomed in on Freddy, and saw that Odell park apparently has a few hundred people living in it according to the dots.

[Delusio Cogno]

"According to a 2017 market survey of major cities in the Maritimes, Moncton’s vacancy rate sits at about nine percent, while Fredericton is at 12 per cent, Saint John is 21 per cent, and Halifax is in the mid-teens."

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/vacancy-r...cton-1.3574635

[MonctonRad]

Maybe it's time for Crombie REIT to start on renovations to 1222 Main Street then........

[MonctonRad]

from Huddle:

The province’s unemployment rate rose to 7.8 per cent in the province, up from 6.5 per cent in July.

The labour force was 381,600 in August, up from 377, 100 in July. The workforce participation rate in August also went up to 61.1 per cent, from 60.4 per cent in July.

Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for the province’s major cities. In Moncton, unemployment went down to 5.1 per cent in August from 5.2 per cent in July. In Saint John, unemployment was down from 6.2 per cent in July to 5.8 per cent in August.

Nationally, the unemployment rate was down to 6.2 per cent in August, from 6.3 per cent in July.

So, Moncton's unemployment rate is currently 5.1%. It is generally agreed that anything under 5.0% is "full employment".

Atlantic Canada Unemployment Rates by CMA

Moncton - 5.1%
Saint John - 5.8%
Halifax - 7.1%
St. John's - 8.4%

[kwajo]

For all the pessimists that bemoan Saint John as dying or devoid of opportunities (a school of thought to which I never subscribed), a 5.8% unemployment rate is damn good by any measure.

[ErickMontreal]

Originally Posted by kwajo

For all the pessimists that bemoan Saint John as dying or devoid of opportunities (a school of thought to which I never subscribed), a 5.8% unemployment rate is damn good by any measure.

Unemployment rate has to be taken with a grain of salt, the participation rate is a better indicator. That being said, 5.8% is certainly a favorable number.

[kwajo]

Originally Posted by ErickMontreal

Unemployment rate has to be taken with a grain of salt, the participation rate is a better indicator. That being said, 5.8% is certainly a favorable number.

Oh absolutely, but as one indicator, it is very much trending in the right direction.

[JHikka]

Unemployment rate does not capture seniors, those retiring, or those not looking for work. Participation rate and raw employment figures are far better for tracking.

[Hali87]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

There's an interesting French language website that shows a dot map of linguistic distribution of populations for the entire country based on the most recent census data. The red dots are anglophone and the blue dots are francophone. The other dots are for other languages, which although important elsewhere (Toronto & Vancouver), don't matter too much for Atlantic Canada. Green is Chinese, yellow is Punjabi, purple is aboriginal etc.

The map is interactive, scalable and very interesting to play with. The web address is http://vt.anagraph.io/recensement/languesmaternelles/

Interesting maps! Moncton and Ottawa-Gatineau stand out as being quite strictly divided. Vancouver/Lower Mainland looks very different from pretty much everywhere else in the country, and contrasts starkly with nearby Victoria.

Zooming in a bit on the Halifax map it's interesting to note the clusters of Arabic-speakers forming in the West End and south of Downtown, as well as the Chinese-speaking clusters in the South End and around Quinpool/Robie. These are somewhat observable in person - Chinese and Arabic-language-oriented businesses have become more common and prevalent over the last few years, especially in the inner city.

The Mainland North area (Fairview, Clayton Park, Bedford South) stands out as very linguistically diverse, with a large but dispersed Arabic-speaking population in Bedford South in particular.

There doesn't seem to be any major clustering of Francophones - they are dispersed fairly evenly across the metro area.

[Fischbob]

I've been playing around with the data from the recent Census release on income, and put this together for a thread in the Canada section. if there's interest I could do a similar thing for Freddy and Moncton, though I'd be less familiar with the neighbourhoods involved.

Here are the 5 CTs in the Saint John CMA with the highest before-tax median family income:

110.01 - $139,492 (Old Rothesay - primarily old money; highest-income CT in New Brunswick)
120.03 - $126,976 (Quispamsis - new money)
120.04 - $122,510 (also Quispamsis)
27.01 - $104,667 (Cedar Point, Millidgeville - highest income CT within city limits)
25.02 - $101,632 (Upper West Side)

And just because it is illustrative of just how unequal the SJ region is, here are the 5 lowest-income CTs, all of which are distressed inner-city neighbourhoods:

6 - $29,530 (public housing in the Waterloo Village neighbourhood)
19 - $34,048 (area known as The Valley - cut off from the Uptown by rail and highway)
7 - $34,816 (the rest of Waterloo Village - lost 20% of its population from 2011-2016)
10 - $35,767 (Lower South End - lost 14% of its population from 2011-2016)
23 - $38,528 (Old North End - lost 15% of its population from 2011-2016)

And here's a quick and dirty map - greens are higher income, purples are lower income. I've highlighted the single highest- and lowest-income CTs in yellow - I'll let you decipher which is which.

[MonctonRad]

Nice job!!

Yes, if you have time it would be interesting to see the distribution in Moncton & Saint John.

I browsed the Moncton stats, and it seemed the highest income neighbourhoods were in Dieppe, and in one section of Riverview (Coverdale if I recall). The Moncton CD's were in the middle, although I assume NW Moncton would be higher than the rest of the city.

[Fischbob]

Here are the top-earning census tracts in the Moncton CMA (again, median before-tax family income):

14.04 - $110,682 (some of the newer parts of Dieppe)
14.03 - $104,992 (more Dieppe)
3.03 - $100,019 (Moncton NW)
14.02 - $91,840 (Dieppe, along the river)
12 - $87,872 (East Moncton, north of Highway 15)

And the bottom-earning CTs in Greater Moncton (notice that the lower threshold here is above SJ's bottom 5):

6 - $45,024 (Downtown north of Queen/Gordon; St. George Street, area around former Moncton High)
1 - $50,645 (Downtown south of Queen/Gordon; Main Street, Assumption Blvd)
8 - $56,171 (area bounded by Mountain, Wheeler and Edgett)
7 - $57,173 (area bounded by Mountain and Collishaw, and down to Lockhart/John/High/Dufferin)
10.01 - $59,802 (UdeM/Sunny Brae area)

Map:



Top 5 for Fredericton CA:
21 - $110,643 (New Maryland)
23 - $102,042 (Hanwell and along Route 102)
12 - $99,986 (Northside - area bounded by Ring Road, Brookside, MacFarlane and Maple)
22 - $94,771 (past New Maryland)
6 - $94,464 (north of Route 7, east of Kimble)

Bottom 5 for Fredericton CA:
25 - $39,680 (Kingsclear Indian Reserve No. 6)
17 - $41,664 (Devon Indian Reserve No. 30)
5 - $52,992 (area around UNB)
15 - $63,168 (Northside - near the Princess Margaret Bridge)
10 - $63,744 (Northside - Main Street corridor south of Maple and MacFarlane)

Map (sorry it's so cut off, the Fredericton CA is HUGE - this is the same scale as the Greater Moncton map):

[MonctonRad]

Thanks. Certainly more income disparity in SJ than either Moncton or Freddy. SJ has the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows. This probably explains the political culture of the city somewhat...........

[riverviewer]

Family income? So areas with large houses that have working kids in the basement would show higher incomes than downtown where successful singles are counted only by themselves?