Sentences with phrase «cent of households»

Debt payments now represent about 14 per cent of household disposable income, the highest share in three years.

This represents an average of eight per cent of all households in those centres.

Currently, about 6 per cent of household disposable income is devoted to servicing the interest cost of mortgages.

It suggests that an estimated 30 to 40 per cent of households with mortgages are accelerating their payments.

About 30 per cent of your household energy use takes place in the kitchen.

He said 40 per cent of households continued to lack broadband and the number of connections actually decreased in the last year.

Including interest on other forms of household borrowing, total interest costs now stand close to 8 per cent of household income.

BMO says 84.4 per cent of households headed by young people owe some form of debt, compared with 82 per cent of the same households in 1984.

According to the Canadian Bankers Association, 69 per cent of household debt in Canada is made up of residential mortgage debt, while 18 per cent comes from lines of credit and five per cent is credit card debt.

About 11 per cent of the households affected by the changes earn less than $ 150,000 a year, while 83 per cent of them make less than $ 500,000 a year and two per cent bring in more than $ 1 million a year, the study said.

(1) This figure greatly exceeds the recommended 32 per cent of household monthly income that the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation deems affordable.

Nevertheless, Canada is a nation of homeowners — nearly 70 per cent of households own their dwelling (in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, around 120,000 owners possess more than one residential property.)

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

About eight per cent of households owe 350 per cent of gross income, representing about 20 per cent of all debt, Poloz said.

About 40 per cent of households contributed to a TFSA, 35 per cent to an RRSP and 30 per cent to a registered pension plan.

According to a BrandSpark Canadian Shopper study, more than 90 per cent of household shoppers are in a loyalty program.

Unsurprisingly, South Australia scored highest for rooftop solar installations, with a huge 24 per cent of households there tapping electricity from the sun.

The Australian Bureau of Statistic reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems — up from about 5 per cent back in 2011, when the ABS first started publishing statistics on solar.

While Nova Scotia diverts 40 per cent of its waste and 99 per cent of households recycle, Manitoba only diverts 13 per cent of trash and is dead - last for recycling at 88 per cent, says Statistics Canada.

That will take the emphasis off waste reduction and the need to improve recycling programs, says Shawn Williamson, whose family diverts 99.3 per cent of its household waste.

While 66.7 per cent of households over the age of 65 in the top half of income use the Internet, that number drops to only 28.5 per cent for the poorest quartile of households.

There has been a five - per - cent increase in the need for food assistance since 2011, and 47 per cent of households requesting this help are families with children, says KWAR.

«Consumer intentions across the five major markets surveyed remain strong, with eight per cent of households thinking seriously about buying a home this year,» says Bob Dugan, chief economist at CMHC, in a news release.

Home buying intentions are strongest in Calgary and Halifax, where 10 per cent of households reported they are ready to buy a home.

«Sixty to seventy per cent of households in England affected by the [bedroom tax] contain somebody with a disability and many of these people will not be able to move home easily due to their disability.

The tightening in monetary policy has, however, resulted in a rise in the interest payments of the household sector from around 6 per cent of household disposable income in the first half of 1999, to around 7 1/4 per cent in the March quarter (Graph 15).

On the assumption that the 30 per cent of households with debt against their homes also own 30 per cent of housing assets, we estimate that the ratio of debt to assets for indebted owner occupiers is about 46 per cent, up from 36 per cent ten years earlier.

According to the Canadian Bankers Association, 69 per cent of household debt in Canada is made up of residential mortgage debt, while 18 per cent comes from lines of credit and five per cent is credit card debt.

According to Vancity, based on the average income of Vancouverites, the average property now requires more than 48 per cent of household monthly income.

The City of Toronto estimates that 25 to 35 per cent of household energy use comes from hot water.

The debt - servicing ratio reached 7.6 per cent of household disposable income in the March quarter (Graph 22).

About 60 per cent of households will have at least some part of their carbon tax bill repaid.

The 2016 figures showed a further worsening of Hong Kong's wealth gap, as the richest 10 per cent of households - with a median monthly income of HK$ 112,450 - earned 44 times more than the poorest 10 per cent making an average of HK$ 2,560.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development defines a property as unaffordable if more than 30 per cent of a household's income is required to afford housing - related costs.

Statistics Canada estimates that couples with children account for 30 per cent of households, but more than half of all of Canada's household debt.

«Furthermore, owner - occupiers represent only fifty - six per cent of households, the country fortuitously avoided a housing boom pre-2008 (which kept supply tight) and mortgage lending still only accounts for around thirty - five per cent of GDP, making it one of Europe's least indebted nations.

While payments are expected to rise in Alberta, the report says that Calgary and Edmonton are still the most affordable condo markets when local incomes are taken into account, with mortgage payments taking only about 9 per cent of household income.

In the March quarter, households» liquid financial assets (excluding superannuation) were around 125 per cent of household disposable income, comfortably exceeding their financial liabilities, which were around 100 per cent of household disposable income.

This has encouraged housing equity withdrawal, which amounted to 6 per cent of household disposable income in the June quarter (Graph 10).

Revised data now suggest that the debt - servicing ratio reached 8.7 per cent of household disposable income in the September quarter, and it is likely to have surpassed its late - 1980s peak in the December quarter (Graph 27; see «Box B» for further discussion of the debt - servicing ratio).

In the June quarter, the overall rise in housing - secured credit exceeded dwelling investment by the equivalent of 8 per cent of household disposable income, which is almost twice the average magnitude of housing equity withdrawal seen over the past two years (Graph 28).

By 2002, the debt - servicing ratio on mortgages had reached 6 per cent of household income, while total debt servicing reached 7 1/2 per cent.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

The German discount supermarket chain has served approximately 10 million South Australian shoppers and 30.7 per cent of households have visited an Aldi store.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

True to form, 60 per cent of households headed by someone aged 16 - 25 have wealth below # 150,000 — but so too do 40 per cent of households headed by someone aged 35 - 44.

He said the use of water metering, already present in 28 per cent of households, was likely to be increased, and insisted people must find ways to cut their water consumption.

The top 0.1 per cent of households have increased their share of national income from 2 per cent in 1980 to almost 10 per cent today.