Chinese and South-Asian Canadians are among the top earners and most educated. White people tend to be in the middle, while Latin American and Black Canadians come in lower.
Ethnic segregation is forming along urban-rural lines
People of colour and whites are making remarkably different choices about big cities and small towns.
Sixty per cent of all people of colour in Canada live in just three cities — Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. That compares to only 27 per cent of white people.
Put another way, the report said, “Only about one in 20 (visible-minority members) live in smaller cities, towns and rural areas, compared with about one in three white people.”
Indeed, the report says one reason many people of colour earn more than white people is they live in metropolises, where wages tend to be elevated. The authors also found white people were more likely to be married, have children, and not be living with their parents.
