2010 Personal & Household Income Report
The Department of Statistics today released its second 2010 Census analytical brief, titled “Personal and Household Income”.
This Brief examines in detail the different sources of income as reported by respondents to the 2010 Census of Population. It also provides an analysis of income from main job and educational attainment; cumulative personal income; median personal income; median household income; and, income received from financial assistance.
Bermuda’s total personal income received from all sources by the population 16 years and older reached $3.5 billion according to the 2010 Census data. This total was 66% higher than the $2.1 billion reported during the 2000 Census. The percentage change in total personal income outstripped the rate of inflation which was measured at roughly 36% during the intercensal period.
Eighty per cent of total personal income for persons 16 years and older was sourced from main job earnings, while rental income was a distant second source of income representing 9% of personal income. The analysis in the census brief spans selected demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, and Bermudian status.
Highlights of the 2010 income analysis include:
- Median income for men stood at $60,963
- Median income for women was 9% lower than males at $56,134
- Total median household income reached $103,657
- Median income for two-parent households was the highest at $170,127
- Single-parent households received a median income level of $84,555
The median annual income measured for persons receiving financial assistance was $11,611. Income from financial assistance was highest for the age group 35 to 44 years, at $16,296.
Hard copies of the census analytical brief can be obtained from its office at the Cedar Park Centre, 3rd Floor, #48 Cedar Avenue, Hamilton.
The full report is below [PDF here]
2010 census data reported at the end of 2012 is a little less relevant that it could have been….
Total – One Parent = $84,555
Bermudian One Parent = $86,25
Non-Bermudian
Non- Bermudian One Parent = $94,36
For some reason this just doesn’t add up…. The total one would think would be the average??
These are medians, not means.
Of course….this info is 2 uears old and since then the recession has hit hard.
Wonder what the figures today would
be.
Something seems very wrong with this report, some things dont seem to add up. Also i thought this would help us figure out a minimum wage. Also i feel this should be an anuual report.
other than getting into yours and my private affairs,what is the reason for this report ..? whose statistics…? who wants to know this s#!t…? where is life gonna be made better for any one in this report..? the message is very clear to those who are aware….i see alot of u are getting caught up in the numbers games which are jus distractions from the core of the “situations” that we have put ourselves in. the meat of this study is in its conclusion.
Love the conclusion…… No sh#t Sherlock!
What a great use of time and money.
That was a good one. The people who put that report together need to be sent out to look for another job.
In a little town of 60,000 it takes them 2 years to produce this useless report????
Here you go OBA. First stop in job cuts.
Imagine a private company taking so long to produce performance statistics. How long would it remain in business?
Ancient info. how much is that department being paid and how much vacation are they taking and we are this far behind to the point that the info is historical?
I don’t know about you but when I was single there is no way I had an income of 80 odd thousand!!! Where do they get this stuff? I for one know that people lied because they told me they did. This serves no purpose and I don’t believe the info collected.
When it comes to income, how many tell the truth? How many know the truth? Incomes come from different sources. Maybe one has a few dividend checks. Maybe there is a rental income & expenses for that rental unit. In the household there may be other income earners who also have multiple sources of income.
Who knows if they have a net income & what it is?
What business is all this of the Government anyway? Government has payroll tax records, land tax records, who lives where etc. Look it all up your lazy selves.
Dear Triangle , after reading your post I finally want to release my tongue that I’ve been ‘holding’ for way too long.
I concur completely .. Who tells the truth ? Who ? As a single person I make nowhere near what even the ‘single parent household’ takes in . Never have !
And we want to put faith in stats that are collected during the Census ? Is this where we get ‘true figures’ that supposedly show of a huge disparity in earnings between blacks and whites too ?
Let me let you all in on something .. a little unpleasant truth if you will.
None of my black friends like to partake in the Census. As far as they’re concerned it’s none of anyone’s business. They either make sure they’re not at home when the Census person comes calling or they don’t answer the door.
If they by chance DO get caught they lie about everything. They readily admit to me (and think it’s funny) that they under declare their earnings by one to two categories and they claim to be ‘renting’ the house they actually own whilst outright owning more than that one house !
Forget about the figures being two years out of date. It’s the liars who are skewing the figures and contributing to the big lie about how well (or not well) certain people on this island are really doing .