Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · Public domainYounger than 90% of Canadian towns: half of Beaumont is under 35.2
13% of households rent their home, against 25% across Canada’s towns. With about 26,305 residents in July 2025, Beaumont counted 6,950 households at the 2021 Census. Residents with no religion account for 44%. One-person households are rarer here than in 94% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Beaumont
Growing faster than most
Beaumont went from 17,457 people in 2016 to 20,888 in 2021, +20%: faster growth than in 96% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Younger than most towns
Beaumont’s median age is 35.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 26% are under 15 and 9.3% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Beaumont grew +20% from 2016 to 2021, faster than 96% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 26% higher again. Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Alberta’s towns, by more than +1%.
Beaumont sits above 98% of Canadian towns for children under 15 (26%)
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Nearly one in ten residents are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. By way of comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Beaumont, 35.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Beaumont households average 3 people, larger than in 90% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families account for 7.8%.
In Beaumont, 59% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
One in ten residents 15 and over live common-law; across Canada’s towns the figure is 11%. Never married and not common-law: just over a fifth of adults (typical: 27%).
Above 73% of Canadian towns: 80% of households live in a single-detached house
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. By way of comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 66% date from 2001 or later, 0.6% from before 1961.
Half of households earn more than $130,000 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Beaumont’s median household took in $130,000 before tax, 51% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Alberta’s towns, the household in the middle had $92,200. COVID-19 benefits went to 29% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Above 61% of Canadian towns: 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (50%), then in Europe (24%). The comparison figure for residents who moved in within the year is 11% across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals are 34% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
Beaumont ranks above 72% of Canadian towns on Indigenous residents: 5.3%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Sikh (5.2%). The wider picture: 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns. Visible minority residents make up 17%, against 15% across Canada’s towns.
Bilingual residents make up 14% in Beaumont, more than in 69% of Canadian towns
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 90%, French 1.4%. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns. Few places have as many residents whose mother tongue is French: 3.5% here, more than in 69% of Canadian towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 26%, a lower share than 52% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 5% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
An employment rate of 66%
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 66%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (25,126 to 27,526 people), the 7th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
They run from Wellington Place, at 31.1, to Thetford Mines, at 53.6. The closest ages to Beaumont’s belong to Saint-Lin--Laurentides (34.8), Parc-Kent (34.8), Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn (37.1) and Panorama Hills (37.4).
The towns around Beaumont are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 26,305 | — | 35.2 | 9.3% | 14% |
| The Orchards At Ellerslie | 6,267 | 6.4 km | 31.3 | 3% | 45% |
| Summerside | 16,760 | 7.5 km | 33.6 | 5.9% | 35% |
| Walker | 13,388 | 7.6 km | 32.2 | 4.9% | 54% |
| Charlesworth | 8,135 | 8.3 km | 32.3 | 5.8% | 48% |
| Ellerslie | 5,963 | 8.7 km | 34 | 5.8% | 42% |
| Callaghan | 4,180 | 9.4 km | 33.3 | 7.1% | 38% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
Questions about Beaumont’s residents
Is Beaumont good for families?
Children under 15 are 26% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 69% of households and one-parent families 7.8%. Schools near Beaumont are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Beaumont?
Median total household income in Beaumont was $130,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Beaumont?
The latest figure is an estimate: 26,305 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Beaumont counted 20,888, 20% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Beaumont?
Half the residents are older than 35.2 and half younger, younger than 90% of Canadian towns; 26% are children under 15 and 9.3% are 65 or over.
Is Beaumont bilingual?
14% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.2% speak French only and 85% English only. French is the mother tongue of 3.5%.
How diverse is Beaumont?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 14%. A visible minority makes up 17% and Indigenous residents 5.3%.
What religion are people in Beaumont?
Most often Christian (48%) or no religion (44%); other religions make up 8.4%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).