Highlights

Did you know that…

• The Aboriginal population living in the census metropolitan area of Halifax is young and growing. In 2006, 5,320 Aboriginal people lived there, a 51% increase from 2001.
• Roughly four in 10 (41%) of the Aboriginal people in Halifax were under the age of 25, compared to 30% of non-Aboriginal people.
• Aboriginal youth aged 15 to 24 living in Halifax were slightly less likely to be attending school than their non-Aboriginal counterparts (65% versus 69%).
• Among the Aboriginal adult population (aged 25 to 64 years) in Halifax, 61% of men and 64% of women had completed postsecondary education, compared to 66% of non-Aboriginal men and 69% of non-Aboriginal women.
• The unemployment rate for the Aboriginal core working age population (aged 25 to 54) in Halifax was higher than that of the non-Aboriginal population (8.1% compared to 4.7%).
• In 2006, both Métis men and women (76.8% and 69.3%) and First Nations men and women (81.6% and 74.1%) had lower employment rates than the non-Aboriginal population (86.8% and 79.0%, respectively).
• In 2000, Aboriginal people in Halifax working full time full year earned 89% of what their non-Aboriginal counterparts were earning. By 2005, this percentage had decreased to 87%.
• Over half of Halifax’s Aboriginal population had moved at least once, either within Halifax or to Halifax from another community, between 2001 and 2006.