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This Profile is organized into the following sections:
This neighbourhood is a section of central Hamilton. It includes the smaller Hamilton City Planning and Development Department neighbourhoods of Landsdale, Gibson, Stipely, Crown Point West and Blakely. Gibson 16 is defined by census tracts 32, 51-53 and 59-62. The border of this neighbourhood follows Wellington Street south to Cannon Street, east to Wentworth Street, south to Main Street east to Sherman Avenue, south to the escarpment, east to Ottawa Street, north to Main Street, east to Gage Avenue, north to the CN Railway and west back to Wellington Street.
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Population In 2001 Gibson 16 had a total population of 28,265 people, which was virtually unchanged from 1996. In 2001 the neighbourhood’s population was composed of 50.4% males and 49.6% females. Gibson 16 had higher proportions of children aged 0 to 9 years and adults aged 20 to 44 years than Hamilton and Ontario (Figure 1a). The proportion of individuals 65 years of age and over was very similar to Hamilton and Ontario (Figure 1b). A full population pyramid by age and sex for Gibson 16 is shown in Figure 1c. Marital Status and Families In 2001 37.7% of the Gibson 16 population aged 15 years and over were married compared to 51.7% in Hamilton and 53.4% in Ontario (Figure 2a). There were many more lone parent families in Gibson 16 (27.2%) than in Hamilton (16.6%) and Ontario (15.2%). More seniors aged 65 years and over lived alone in Gibson 16 (36.1%) compared to Hamilton (28.9%) and Ontario (26.8%). Gibson 16 had more single person households (33.3%) than Hamilton and Ontario (Figure 2b). Households and Dwellings There were fewer owned private dwellings in Gibson 16 than in Hamilton and Ontario, and more rented (Figure 3a). Gibson 16 is an older neighbourhood with 64.9% of dwellings built prior to 1946 compared to 20.7% for Hamilton and 16.7% for Ontario. There were more apartment buildings with fewer than five storeys in Gibson 16 than in Hamilton and Ontario and fewer apartment buildings with five or more stories (Figure 3b). Education The level of education in Gibson 16 was lower than in Hamilton and Ontario. Less-than-grade-9 was the highest level of education for 16.5% of the population 20 years and older, compared to 10.3% in Hamilton and 8.7% in Ontario (Figure 4a). The proportion of people aged 15 to 24 years in Gibson 16 who were not attending school was 50.6%, much higher than in Hamilton (38.1%) and Ontario (35.1%). Employment and Income In Gibson 16 a lower proportion of people aged 15 and over (58.5%) were in the labour force (working or available to work) than in Hamilton (63.7%) and Ontario (67.3%). In 2001 Gibson 16 had a higher unemployment rate (9.8%) than Hamilton (6.4%) and Ontario (6.1%). The top 4 male and female occupations are listed in Table 1. The prevalence of low income for all persons in private households was much higher in Gibson 16 (37.4%) than in Hamilton (19.8%) and Ontario (14.4%) (Figure 5a). Most areas of Hamilton, including Gibson 16, experienced a decrease in low income since 1996. The average household income in Gibson 16 was $38,900 in 2000, lower than Hamilton ($57,700) and Ontario ($66,800). In Gibson 16, 73.7% of income came from employment while 20.1% came from government transfers. The proportions of income from employment and government transfers were 77.1% and 12.1%, respectively, for Hamilton and 78.7% and 9.8%, respectively, for Ontario. Unpaid Work Compared to Hamilton and Ontario, slightly fewer people aged 15 years and over in Gibson 16 provided unpaid childcare (Figure 6a). In additions, a much smaller proportion of people provided care or assistance to seniors compared to Hamilton and Ontario. Immigration and Language In Gibson 16, 5.3% of people had a citizenship other than Canadian, compared with 6.0% in Hamilton and 7.6% in Ontario. Immigrants made up 23.2% of residents in Gibson 16 with 15.3% of immigrants born in Portugal, the most common place of birth outside Canada. In Hamilton and Ontario, 24.7% and 26.8% of residents were immigrants with the United Kingdom being the most common place of birth outside Canada. 8.3% of people in Gibson 16 spoke a home language other than English or French, which was slightly higher than in Hamilton and Ontario (Figure 7a). Polish (1.6%) was the most common home language other than English in Gibson 16. 2.6% of residents could not conduct a conversation in an official language (English or French) compared to 1.8% in Hamilton and 2.1% in Ontario. Disability In 2001 18.2% of people in Gibson 16 reported difficulties hearing, seeing, communicating, walking, climbing stairs, bending, learning or doing similar activities. 20.4% of people reported that a physical condition, mental condition or health problem reduced the amount or kind of activity they could do. The percentage reporting one or both of the above disabilities was 22.9%. These rates were higher than in Hamilton and Ontario (Figure 8a). Hospital Admissions and Emergency Room Visits In 2001 and 2002, Gibson 16 residents were admitted to hospital at a rate of 107 per 1,000 population, which was higher than in Hamilton as a whole (93.3) (Table 2). Gibson 16 had higher rates of admissions for all disease groupings except osteoarthrosis and allied disorders, rehabilitation care, coronary heard disease, stroke and “other” circulatory disorders The rates of emergency room visits and admissions were also higher in Gibson 16. Gibson 16 residents had a higher rate of expected acute home care days per 1,000 population than residents of Hamilton as a whole. Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) Services In the fiscal year 2003-2004, the number of CCAC clients per 1,000 population in Gibson 16 was 35.2, higher than in Hamilton as a whole (34.7) (Table 3). When standardized by age and sex to the Hamilton population, the rate for Gibson 16 was even higher at 38.1 per 1,000. Except for Shift Nursing and Personal Support and Homemaking, the standardized rates for individual CCAC services were higher in Gibson 16 than in the entire City of Hamilton. Family Physicians Practicing in Gibson 16, September 2004
For a full list of family physicians practicing in Hamilton click here for an Excel file or click here for a PDF file. Compared to Hamilton and Ontario, in 2001 Gibson 16 had
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