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Investment income, 2014

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Released: 2016-02-26

Both the number of taxfilers reporting investment income and the amount of reported investment income increased in 2014, but at a slower pace than in the previous year. Investment income refers to the sum of dividend income from taxable Canadian corporations and interest income from investments in non-tax-sheltered vehicles.

Nationally, over 7.6 million taxfilers reported income from investments in 2014, up 0.4% from 2013. This compares with a 1.0% increase from 2012 to 2013.

The amount of investment income was up 0.4% in 2014 to $68.3 billion (in constant dollars), following an increase of 8.5% from 2012 to 2013. While the number of taxfilers reporting investment income rose in 2014, that number as a proportion of all taxfilers edged down from 30.0% in 2013 to 29.6% in 2014.

Nationally, median investment income increased from $610 in 2013 to $620 in 2014 (in constant dollars). In other words, half of the taxfilers reporting investment income in 2014 reported more than $620, while the other half reported less than $620.

Taxfilers in Alberta ($800) reported the highest median investment income, followed by those in British Columbia ($770) and Saskatchewan ($690). Taxfilers in Nunavut ($260) reported the lowest median investment income, followed by those in Newfoundland and Labrador ($340) and the Northwest Territories ($340).

Among census metropolitan areas (CMAs), Victoria ($1,030) reported the highest median investment income among taxfilers, followed by Kelowna ($1,020) and Calgary ($940). The lowest median investment income was reported in Saguenay ($350).

Victoria was also the CMA with the highest proportion of taxfilers reporting investment income, at 37.8%, followed by Kelowna and Vancouver (both at 36.6%).



  Note to readers

For this release, investment income recipients are defined as taxfilers who either reported dividend income from taxable Canadian corporations or reported interest income. Income earned from investments held under the terms of registered retirement savings plans or registered retirement income funds, for example, are excluded. Capital gains are also excluded.

In comparisons involving dollar amounts in this release, all figures for previous years have been adjusted for inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

All data in this release have been tabulated according to the 2011 Standard Geographical Classification used for the 2011 Census.

A census metropolitan area (CMA) is formed by one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (also known as the core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more must live in the core.

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The data on Canadian Investment Income (Catalogue number17C0008, various prices), Canadian Investors (Catalogue number17C0007, various prices), Canadian Savers (Catalogue number17C0009, various prices), Canadian Capital Gains (Catalogue number17C0012, various prices) and Canadian Taxfilers (Catalogue number17C0010, various prices) are now available for Canada, the provinces and territories, economic regions, census divisions, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, census tracts and postal-based geographies. These custom services are available upon request.

CANSIM tables for this release are available for Canada, the provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

The summary characteristics of Canadian taxfilers are also available in CANSIM table 111-0041.

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