Toronto

From time to time, community partners issue report cards on the child and family poverty. Local reports, research and fact sheets are posted here as they are released.

2024

2024 Toronto Child and Family Poverty Report Card
This report highlights a record-breaking rise in child poverty across every ward in Toronto, with over 117,000 children living in low-income households. It examines the depth and disproportionate impact of poverty on one-parent, Indigenous, racialized, immigrant, and newcomer families, and calls for urgent, rights-based action from all levels of government.

2018

2018 Toronto Child and Family Poverty Report Card
This report reveals that 1 in 4 children in Toronto lived in poverty in 2016, with rates far higher among Indigenous, racialized, and newcomer families. It maps poverty by ward, highlights systemic inequities, and calls on all levels of government to take coordinated action to end child and family poverty.

2015

Toronto child & family poverty update 2015

Child poverty in Toronto, published jointly by the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto, Alliance for a Poverty-Free Toronto, Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Network, & Family Service Toronto/Campaign 2000.

Media: Read the The Toronto Star story.

2014

The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on child and Family poverty in Toronto

The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Social Planning Toronto, Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Network, & Family Service Toronto/Campaign 2000.

2008

Greater Trouble in Greater Toronto: Child Poverty in the GTA

The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto