Income statistics by economic family type and income source, annual.

This statistic depicts the median annual family income in Canada from 2000 to 2020. In 2020, the median annual family income in Canada was 96,220 Canadian dollars.

Income of individuals by age group, sex and income source, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, annual.

This statistic shows the income distribution of Canadians for 2020, distinguished by level of income. In 2020, about 302,050 Canadians had an income of 250,000 Canadian dollars or more.

This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are based on national threshold values, regardless of selected geography; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% national income threshold. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

This statistic depicts the median annual family income in Canada in 2021, distinguished by province. In 2021, the median annual family income in Alberta was 106,960 Canadian dollars.

Average and median market, total and after-tax income of individuals by visible minority group, Indigenous group and immigration status, Canada and provinces.

The median total income in Canada increased by 1,440 dollars (+3.46 percent) in 2022. With 43,090 dollars, the median total income thereby reached its highest value in the observed period.

Median after-tax income, economic family types.

Annual adjusted household disposable income including social transfers in kind.

Families of tax filers; Single-earner and dual-earner census families by number of children (final T1 Family File; T1FF).

Families of tax filers; Census families by total income, family type and number of children (final T1 Family File; T1FF).

All household types in Canada received a higher income after-tax in 2021 than they received in 2019, except for elderly people not in an economic family. This increase was partially due to the higher level of government transfers in 2020.

Average and median total income of husband-wife families.

In 2021, the median income of families with children in Canada increased by 3,030 dollars (+2.76 percent) since 2020. Therefore, the median income in Canada reached a peak in 2021 with 112,720 dollars.

In 2022, 9.9 percent of all Canadians were living in low income. Between 2000 and 2022, the percentage of population with low income experienced a decrease, reaching the lowest value in 2020. The highest share of Canadians with low income was recorded in 2015, with 14.5 percent of the total population.

Low Income Measures

The low income measures (LIMs) were developed by Statistics Canada in the 1990s. They, along with the low income cut-offs (LICOs) and the market basket measure (MBM), were created in order to measure and track the low income population of Canada. With low income measures, individuals are classified as being in low income if their income falls below fifty percent of the median adjusted household income. The median income is adjusted in order to reflect the differing financial needs of households based on the number of its members. The low income measures are a useful tool to compare low income populations between countries as they do not rely on an arbitrary standard of what constitutes the threshold for poverty. Statistics Canada insists that the low income measures are not meant to be representative of a poverty rate. The department has no measure which they define as a measurement of poverty in Canada. Latest data and trends In 2022, around 2.1 million people were living in low income families in Canada. This figure has been fluctuating over the years, both in absolute numbers and in proportion over the total population. More women than men were living in low income families in 2022, though the number of men in low income has risen at twice the rate as that of women. One of the more drastic changes has been the rise in the number of single individuals living in low income, increasing by more than 60 percent since 2000.

The median total income of all families in Ontario increased by 2,370 dollars (+2.38 percent) since the previous year. Therefore, the median total income of all families in Ontario reached a peak in 2022 with 101,920 dollars. Find more key insights for the median total income of all families in countries and regions like number of families receiving employment insurance benefits (Canada), median employment insurance benefits received by persons not in census families (Canada), and median total income of all families (New Brunswick).

Low income cut-offs (LICOs) before and after tax by community size and family size, in current dollars, annual.

This statistic shows the median total income of senior couple families, aged 55 years and over, in Canada from 2000 to 2020, distinguished by age group. In 2020, the median income of senior couple families aged 65 years and over was 76,510 Canadian dollars.

This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...);  Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...);  Net worth quintiles (6 items: Total, all net worth quintiles; Lowest net worth quintile; Second net worth quintile; Middle net worth quintile; ...);  Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...);  Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).