Here are five facts from the just-released Statstics Canada 2016 census for the London Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), which includes St. Thomas and Strathroy. Stay with lfpress.com for more news and analysis from the latest data release.

1. London CMA’s median household income, $64,743, is second-lowest among all big cities in Ontario. It’s ahead of only St. Catharines ($63,001).

2. In the City of London specifically, the median household pulls in even less than that, $62,011. The average across Canada is $70,336, or more than 10% higher.

3. Nearly one in four area children, 22 per cent, lives in a low-income family. That’s the third-highest level in Canada after Windsor and St. John, New Brunswick. (By comparison, 8.3 per cent of Quebec City children live in such households.)

4. While the median household income in Canada rose 10.8 per cent over the decade between 2005 and 2015, to $70,336 from $63,457, Ontario fared worst among all provinces – with growth of just 3.8 per cent.

5. Compare that to London: over that 10-year period, London CMA households are actually down 2.1 per cent. Windsor’s in even rougher shape, down 6.4 per cent.