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The census agglomeration of Thompson, with 4,930 Aboriginal residents, had the largest proportion of Aboriginal people of any city in Canada in 2006. More than one in three (36%) people in Thompson were Aboriginal.
The Aboriginal population of Thompson is young and growing. Between 2001 and 2006, the Aboriginal population grew by 9%.
Over half (57%) of the Aboriginal population was under the age of 25, compared to about a third (34%) of non-Aboriginal people.
Aboriginal youth aged 15 to 24 living in Thompson had slightly higher school attendance rates in 2006 than their non-Aboriginal counterparts (56% versus 52%). Aboriginal adults also had a greater tendency to attend school in later years than did non-Aboriginal adults.
Over four in 10 Aboriginal women (44%) and almost four in 10 Aboriginal men (38%) aged 25 to 64 had completed postsecondary education. This compared to about five in 10 of their non-Aboriginal counterparts (51% and 53%, respectively). Aboriginal women aged 35 to 64 obtained a university degree at about the same rate as non-Aboriginal men and women in this age group.
The unemployment rate for the Aboriginal core working age population (aged 25 to 54) in Thompson was higher than that of the non-Aboriginal population (11.2% compared to 3.4%). Unemployment rates were higher for Thompson youth.
While Aboriginal men were earning 86% of what non-Aboriginal men were earning in 2000, by 2005 this percentage had declined to 64%. Aboriginal women earned about 93% of their non-Aboriginal counterparts in 2005, about the same as in 2000.
Two-thirds of Thompson's Aboriginal population moved at least once between 2001 and 2006.