Core Housing Need
Income, Shelter Cost and STIR

Universe

  1. Households in Core Housing Need
  2. Households Tested For Core Housing Need

Variables

  1. Income and Shelter Costs ($)
  2. Shelter-Cost-to-Income-Ratio (STIR) (%)

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Vancouver — STIRs (Households in Core Housing Need)

  Average STIR Before Taxes Median STIR Before Taxes
Vancouver 48.0 44.0
Ambleside 51.0 45.2
Anmore/Belcarra/Metro Vancouver North 52.0 48.8
Capital Hill/Brentwood 49.7 46.0
Cedar Cottage 45.9 43.2
Central Lonsdale 52.6 49.2
Central Park 46.6 42.0
Cloverdale/Fleetwood 46.6 42.8
Collingwood 45.0 40.8
Coquitlam East 49.5 44.8
Coquitlam West 47.9 44.0
Deer Lake 48.0 41.2
Downtown 47.0 43.2
Downtown Central 50.3 46.8
Downtown Eastside/Strathcona 41.2 38.4
Downtown North 57.1 54.4
Dundrave/West Vancouver Remainder 54.8 51.2
Edmonds 42.5 38.4
English Bay 51.0 46.8
Fraser View/Killarny 45.2 41.2
Guildford 45.0 41.2
Hastings/Sunrise/Grandview/Woodlands 44.6 40.4
Kerrisdale 51.6 47.6
Kitsilano/Point Grey North 51.2 47.2
Kitsilano/Point Grey South 47.5 44.4
Ladner 47.7 42.8
Langley CY 43.8 40.4
Langley DM 47.9 44.4
Lonsdale East 49.6 46.0
Lonsdale North 49.4 44.8
Lonsdale West 51.2 47.2
Maple Ridge 48.4 43.6
Marpole Remainder 50.1 45.6
Marpole South 44.4 40.8
Metrotown 47.6 44.0
Mount Pleasant 47.5 44.0
New Westminster East 46.7 41.6
New Westminster West 48.5 46.4
Newton 43.3 40.0
North Delta 46.6 43.2
North False Creek 54.1 50.8
North Vancouver DM East 48.5 44.8
North Vancouver DM West 53.0 48.4
Pitt Meadows 48.0 44.4
Point Grey 51.5 48.0
Port Coquitlam 47.1 43.2
Port Moody 48.3 44.0
Renfrew 43.9 39.2
Richmond City Centre 48.2 44.0
Richmond East 52.5 49.2
Richmond South 51.2 48.0
Richmond West 49.6 46.0
Riley Park 48.5 44.8
Sea Island 58.0 46.8
South Cambie 51.3 49.2
South False Creek 52.6 48.8
South Granville 50.6 47.6
South Surrey 52.6 48.0
Southeast Burnaby South 45.7 42.4
Sunset 46.5 42.8
Surrey City Centre 45.5 41.6
Tsawwassen 50.2 47.2
University Endowment Lands 55.3 50.0
University/Lougheed 47.7 44.0
Uptown 43.4 39.6
West End/Stanley Park North 52.1 48.4
West End/Stanley Park South 50.5 47.6
Westside Heights 48.8 44.8
Westside/Kerrisdale Remainder 52.2 48.4
Whalley 43.6 40.0
White Rock 49.3 44.4
Notes:
  • Data include all non-farm, non-band, non-reserve private households reporting positive incomes and shelter cost-to-income ratios less than 100 per cent.
  • A household is in core housing need if its housing does not meet one or more standards for housing adequacy (repair), suitability (crowding), or affordability and if it would have to spend 30 per cent or more of its before-tax income to pay the median rent (including utilities) of appropriately sized alternative local market housing. Adequate housing does not require any major repairs, according to residents. Suitable housing has enough bedrooms for the size and make-up of resident households. Affordable housing costs less than 30 per cent of before-tax household income.
  • For renters, shelter costs include, as applicable, rent and payments for electricity, fuel, water and other municipal services. For owners, shelter costs include, as applicable, mortgage payments (principal and interest), property taxes, condominium fees, and payments for electricity, fuel, water and other municipal services.
  • STIR = Shelter-cost-to-income ratio (based on annual shelter costs and household income before taxes).
Source: CMHC (census-based and NHS-based housing indicators and data) (opens in new window)