Home energy spending as % after-tax household income, Household home energy expenditures, Selected statistics, Low Income Status, Housing Tenure, Selected commuting demographic variables and Selected housing characteristics for Owner and Renter households

This table was received from the Canadian Urban Sustainability Practitioners (CUSP) network as part of a collaboration with the Community Data Program Analytics team.

CUSP supports Energy Poverty Reduction Through Clean Energy Transformation by means of Local Energy Access Programs (LEAPs). LEAPs will help municipalities achieve their energy and emissions goals and targets, bring established and new technologies to help transition to clean energy, bolster the capacity of local organizations to develop and deliver energy access programs, and ensure that low and moderate income households benefit from decreased instances of energy poverty. 

Working within this project framework of LEAP, the Community Data Program Community Analytics Team has built a data access tool to monitor and report on indicators of urban sustainability, including first-of-its-kind nationwide community energy poverty measurements

More information on this project will be provided here as it becomes available.

The selected household demographic characteristics in this table relate to commuting, based on place of work, mode of transportation and distance travelled

The variables in the Selected Housing Characteristics (22) are split up by topic into separate tables (all included in the file package). The topics and contained Selected Housing Characteristic variables are:

• Affordability
  • Spending 30% or more of income on shelter costs
• Core Housing Needs
  • Household in core housing need
• Household Size
  • 1 person
  • 2 persons
  • 3 persons
  • 4 persons
  • 5 or more persons
• Major Repairs
  • Major repairs needed
• Period of Construction (POC)
  • 1960 or before
  • 1961 to 1980
  • 1981 to 1990
  • 1991 to 2000
  • 2001 to 2016
• Structure
  • Single-detached house
  • Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys
  • Semi-detached house
  • Row house
  • Apartment or flat in a duplex
  • Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys
  • Other single-attached house
  • Movable dwelling