Nearly 29 per cent of children growing up in the City of Toronto lived in households that were below the poverty line in 2013, according to a new report compiled by the Children’s Aid Society and other local anti-poverty groups.

Comparing tax filing data to Statistics Canada’s Low Income Measure after tax, the report says Toronto’s child poverty rate is four per cent higher than Montreal’s, five per cent higher than Winnipeg’s and 12 per cent higher than Ottawa’s.

The report found Peel Region’s child poverty rate was 21 per cent in 2013, while York and Durham region’s was 15 per cent.

Statistics Canada’s low income measure after tax suggests a family of two adults and two children must have earned more than $32,912 in 2013 to stay out of poverty. For a single person, the line was $16,456 in after-tax income in 2013.

The report estimates more than 140,000 children in Toronto lived in poverty in 2013.

Among Toronto’s neighbourhoods, 63 per cent of children in Regent Park lived in poverty in 2013, with Thorncliffe Park, Oakridge and Moss Park also showing child poverty rates above 50 per cent.

Lawrence Park South, the south Kingsway, Leaside and Lawrence Park North all had child poverty rates of less than 5.2 per cent.

The report also stated that 18 of Scarborough’s 25 neighbourhoods had child poverty rates that were higher than the city-wide average.

Elsewhere in the city, clusters of neighbourhoods in downtown Toronto and north Etobicoke contained child poverty rates of more than 40 per cent.