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“Developments in Southwestern Ontario are an important part of the explanation of Canada’s sluggish overall economic growth in recent decades.”

Household incomes in Windsor and London fell from top third in Canada to the bottom third over fifteen years




MEDIA CONTACT: Drue MacPherson, (604) 688-0221 ext. 721, drue.macpherson@fraserinstitute.org

TORONTO—Between 2005 and 2019, large cities in Southwestern Ontario—in particular Windsor and London—have gone from being amongst the most prosperous cities in Canada (as measured by median household income) to being amongst the least prosperous, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

“Southwestern Ontario—which is as large as Atlantic Canada—has transformed from being one of the highest-income areas of the country to one of the lowest in just 15 years,” said Ben Eisen, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute and co-author of Economic Performance in Southwestern Ontario’s CMAs: A National Perspective, 2023 Update.

The study finds that the two large CMAs in southwestern Ontario that are outside of the Toronto commuter shed, London and Windsor, were amongst the worst performers.

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