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City of Toronto staff currently reviewing latest census data

September 13, 2017

This morning, Statistics Canada issued the latest release of the 2016 Census data on income. City staff are reviewing the data and will be available to respond to media inquiries about the latest census findings as of noon tomorrow, September 14.

A backgrounder that summarizes key findings and trends will be released shortly after and posted to the City's demographics webpage at http://www.toronto.ca/demographics.

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