Windsor among top regions for adult children living at home

New data from the 2021 censusis shedding light on howWindsor-Essex stacks up against the rest of the province and the country.

The Windsor area has one of the highest proportions of young adults living with their parents, according to datareleased by Statistics Canada on Wednesday.

In the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), 44.7 per cent of 20 to 34-year-olds lived with their parents in 2021.

Only Oshawa (48.7 per cent), Toronto (46.6 per cent) had higher proportions ofyoung adults living at home.

Income levels rising

The data showed that the median after-tax household income in the region was$73,000 in 2020 up from about $59,000 in 2015.

However, that's lower than the Ontario median of $79,500, but on par with the national figure.

Incomes in the city of Windsor itself were significantly lowerthan the region as a whole, at$63,600, and also lower in Leamington at $70,500.

"Those remain the lowest median after tax householdincomes in the region," said Alicea Fleming, vice presidentcommunity impact of theUnited Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County, in a virtual presentation onsome of the new data on Wednesday.

LaSalle had the highest income out of the eight municipalities in the Windsor CMA,at $102,000.

The gap between the rich and the poor in this region was also high.

Windsor has the fifth highest income inequality out of major cities in Canada, according to the statistics agency.

It found that 11.3 per cent of Windsor-area households werelow-income, compared with the national average of 11.1 per cent.