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The United Way of the Lower Mainland Community Profile Series Delta October 2016 About United Way of the Lower Mainland Our Vision: A healthy, caring, inclusive community. Our Mission: To strengthen our community’s capacity to address social issues. United Way of the Lower Mainland (UWLM) invests in your communities – where you live, work, learn and play. United Way has been helping people in the Lower Mainland for more than 80 years. Working with over 150 community partners, we fund over 300 programs each year to create a better future for children, families and seniors. How United Way works and leads social change: • Collaborate: We multiply our impact through • Invest: We make smart community investments partnerships. to achieve results. • Research: We fund and conduct research to • Advocate: We help people understand the understand community needs and plan for the issues and influence public attitudes, systems future. and policies. United Way’s vision is a better community for all of priority areas. Dollars are invested where they can us; we believe that every person who lives in the make the most difference creating long term social Lower Mainland should have access to the same change. opportunities to build a better life for themselves. United Way makes change by targeting root None of the work we do would be possible without causes of complex social issues in our communities the generosity of our donors. We all share in the and focuses on All that Kids Can Be, Poverty to impact when we create neighbourhoods that we Possibility and Building Strong Communities as are proud to call home. The United Way Community Profile – Delta – September 2016 3 Acknowledgements Team for the preparation of United Way Community Profile Series: Delta Authors Jennifer Cleathero, Research Consultant Mary Hart, Research Consultant Mary Ellen Schaafsma, Director, Social Innovation and Research, United Way of the Lower Mainland Carey LePage, Senior Research Analyst, United Way of the Lower Mainland Data Provision (in addition to online public sources) Corporation of Delta bc211 Lilianne Ekeland, Data Analyst Reviewers Jody Olsson; Planner, Strategic Initiatives, United Way of the Lower Mainland Lilianne Ekeland, Data Analyst, bc211 Copy Edit Carey LePage, Senior Research Associate, United Way of the Lower Mainland Publication Layout Don Clark, Graphic Design and Production, United Way of the Lower Mainland Team Leader Mary Ellen Schaafsma, Director, Social Innovation and Research, United Way of the Lower Mainland Funding Source United Way of the Lower Mainland ISBN: 978-0-9684070-9-7 The United Way Community Profile – Delta – September 2016 4 Preface THE UNITED WAY of the LOWER MAINLAND COMMUNITY PROFILE SERIES DELTA COMMUNITY PROFILE: April 2016 This report is the fifth in a series across the Lower In this document, the population demographic Mainland, to dive deep into a community and its information from the 2001 census is generally current socio-demographic profile. updated with census data from 2011 in Section A at the municipal level (with a few exceptions, where a The United Way decided to conduct this profile for point in time is given, rather than a comparison over Delta for a few reasons: time). The authors wish to acknowledge the staff at the • Cities in the Lower Mainland are changing and Planning Department at the Corporation of Delta who the United Way wants to identify exactly how. assisted in providing the data at the local area level. • UWLM funds agencies and services in Delta and we are aware of changing need. This profile The three other municipalities with the largest will inform our targeted investment in future populations, namely Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond and services, and will allow us to partner in Delta Vancouver are contrasted with Delta. The report for an even stronger community. also includes comparative data for Metro Vancouver • As a knowledge resource and community as a whole. partner, UWLM is pleased to provide this profile to the municipalities of the Lower Mainland – For the purposes of this report the Corporation and all the agencies serving here – to inform of Delta is divided into local planning areas or their planning and strategies. neighbourhoods: Ladner-Delta Rural, North Delta East, North Delta West, Sunshine Hills and This profile focuses on the socio-demographic Tsawwassen. indicators in Delta. With the changes in these communities, the social safety net has also evolved Data is presented for each of these local areas. over the same period. This is a result of UWLM donor dollars invested in effective community-based The United Way wishes to thank bc211 for programs and services and because UWLM continues the valuable service they provide to parts of to work in partnership with public partners, like the British Columbia, with UWLM funding. The Corporation of Delta. Readers are encouraged to data they provided to enhance this report (see consider other sources of information in exploring acknowledgements), and the snapshot of these how UWLM and others have – and continue to – communities’ demonstrated needs, added a respond to the changing socio-demographic context dimension not previously explored and may help described in this report. further inform funders, planners and providers. The United Way Community Profile – Delta – September 2016 5 Notes regarding the 2011 National Delta – 22.2% Household Survey and data comparability Burnaby – 23.6% Sections B and C (Economic and Social Indicators) Richmond – 20.5% draw much of the data from Statistics Canada’s Surrey – 26.5% 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). This Vancouver – 24.5% voluntary survey, distributed to approximately 4.5 Metro Vancouver – 24.4% million households, replaced the mandatory long- British Columbia – 26.1% form census that was used until the 2006 census. Due to changes to some questions and sections of The global non-response rates for Delta’s the survey, and the voluntary nature of the survey, neighbourhoods are provided below, and range from comparisons between the 2011 NHS and previous 19.2 per cent to 24.7 per cent. censuses are not possible. Statistics Canada notes: Ladner-Delta Rural 23.1% “Any significant change in survey method or content North Delta East 24.7% can affect the comparability of the data over time, North Delta West 24.6% and that applies to the NHS as well. It is impossible to Sunshine Hills 19.2% determine with certainty whether, and to what extent, Tsawwassen 21.1% differences in a variable are attributable to an actual change or to non-response bias… Caution must be Population data, data suppression and exercised when NHS estimates are compared with rounding estimates produced from the 2006 Census long form, especially when the analysis involves small geographies. The Delta census subdivision does not include the Users are asked to use the NHS’s main quality indicator, Tsawwassen Lands which is self-governed by the the global non-response rate (GNR), in assessing the Tsawwassen First Nation and has its own census quality of the NHS estimates and determining the subdivision. In the 2011 census Tsawwassen Lands extent to which the estimates can be compared with recorded a population of 720 people. the estimates from the 2006 Census long form.”1 For some indicators, data is presented using health Therefore, Sections B and C of this report cannot geographies of Local Health Areas (LHAs) or Health make comparisons between the 2011 NHS and Service Delivery Areas (HSDAs). The Delta LHA is 2001 Census the way that much of Section A could. made up of the Delta census subdivision and the Section A draws largely on the 2011 (mandatory) Tsawwassen Lands. Burnaby and Richmond LHAs Census, for which comparisons can be made using correspond to their municipal boundaries, however the 2001 Census. The 2011 NHS is prone to higher for the Surrey LHA, South Surrey is excluded (it comes non-response bias. A higher GNR indicates higher within the South Surrey/White Rock LHA). Within non-response bias, which occurs when a survey’s the City of Vancouver there are six separate LHAs. non-respondents are different from its respondents. Therefore, instead, data is presented according For reference, the GNRs for all geographies used in by the Vancouver HSDA, which includes The City this report are provided below. of Vancouver, Musqueam and University of British Columbia (UBC). 1 Statistics Canada (2014). “Chapter 5 – Data quality assessment and indicators.” Available at: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/ref/nhs-enm_guide/guide_4-eng.cfm. The United Way Community Profile – Delta – September 2016 6 For certain indicators contained in the report, perspective of socio-economic status and land use. 2 data is presented at both municipality and For Delta these neighbourhoods are: Ladner-Delta neighbourhood level. For Delta the units are the Rural (including Tsawwassen Lands); North Delta East; ‘natural neighbourhood units’ that are used by the North Delta West; Sunshine Hills and Tsawwassen. Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) to report Early Development Instrument (EDI) results. Across Neighbourhood data will not always add up to BC almost 300 neighbourhood units have been the city total due to random rounding and data developed and evolved. Each neighbourhood suppression. According to Statistics Canada, and “to is chosen to reflect how local communities view ensure confidentiality, the values, including totals are their own geographies and populations, with randomly rounded either up or down to a multiple of the latest