New Census data results for City of Vaughan
Employment is growing faster in the municipalities surrounding Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal than in the cities themselves, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday.
In its latest release of 2006 census data, Commuting Patterns and Places of Work of Canadians, Statistics Canada said the trend observed in Canada’s three biggest cities is one that has been emerging over the last 25 years and is consistent within most of Canada’s 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs).
(A CMA consists of many municipalities and the central one lends its name to the CMA. The others are peripheral municipalities)
Sharp increase in the number of workers in the municipality of Vaughan
In 2006, the municipalities of Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan and Markham were among the 25 largest municipalities in Canada from the point of view of the number of people working there. Of these 25 municipalities, Vaughan ranked first in terms of the increase in the number of workers (+22.2%), Brampton ranked fifth (+14.1%), Markham ranked seventh (+10.9%), Mississauga ranked tenth (+10.1%) and Toronto ranked twenty-fourth (+0.7%).
The fastest growing peripheral municipalities around Toronto in terms of the number of people reporting them as their usual place of work were Mississauga (+35,100 or +10.1%), Vaughan (+25,000 or +22.2%), Brampton (+17,300 or +14.1%) and Markham (+12,700 or +10.9%).
Commuters to Vaughan made little use of sustainable transportation
In 2006, the number of people commuting to work in the municipalities of Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughan and Markham was higher than the number of workers living in these municipalities (+232,300 in Toronto, +68,700 in Mississauga, +25,800 in Vaughan and +6,900 in Markham). In contrast, the number of people working in the municipality of Brampton was lower than the number of workers living there (net loss of 58,900 workers).
In 2006, 43.0% of workers whose usual place of work was in the City of Toronto used a sustainable mode of transportation to get there, i.e., public transit, walking or cycling (compared to 41.1% in 2001). The corresponding proportions were 10.8% for those commuting to Vaughan (9.4% in 2001), 10.7% for those commuting to Markham (9.5% in 2001), 11.9% for those commuting to Mississauga (11.0% in 2001) and 10.4% for those commuting to Brampton (10.2% in 2001).
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