Report: Analysis of Cultural Workers in Ontario

According to census data, there are 81,800 professional artists in Ontario, representing 1.0% of the province’s 7.9 million workers. This brief article created by Hill Strategies provides a summary of the number of professional artists and cultural workers by region of Ontario, based on custom data they requested from Statistics Canada’s 2021 long-form census. 

This graph shows that about two-thirds of artists in the northwest are women, much higher than the Ontario average (53%). Among the eight regions of Ontario, Toronto has the lowest proportion of women artists (49%).