Data tables, 2016 Census
Shelter Cost (12), Tenure Including Presence of Mortgage Payments and Subsidized Housing (7), Shelter-cost-to-income Ratio (9), Household Total Income Groups (14) and Household Type Including Census Family Structure (16) for Owner and Tenant Households in Non-farm, Non-reserve Private Dwellings of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data 
About this variable: Shelter-cost-to-income ratio (9)
Definition
Shelter-cost-to-income ratio
'Shelter-cost-to-income ratio' refers to the proportion of average total income of household which is spent on shelter costs.
Values
- Total - Shelter-cost-to-income ratio
- Spending less than 30% of income on shelter costs
- Less than 15%
- 15% to less than 30%
- Spending 30% or more of income on shelter costs
- 30% to less than 50%
- 50% or more
- 50% to less than 100%
- Not applicable Footnote 9
Footnotes
- Footnote 9
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The category 'Not applicable' includes private households with zero or negative household total income.
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