Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.06.8% of residents are 65 or over, below 97% of Canadian towns
53% of residents belong to a visible minority; across Canada’s towns the figure is 15%. Aspen Woods has fewer one-person households than 93% of Canadian towns, at 14%. At the 2021 Census, 9,606 people lived in the neighbourhood, in 3,025 households. Immigrants: two fifths of the total.
What stands out about the people of Aspen Woods
A neighbourhood of families
Children under 15 are 25% of residents, more than in 97% of Canadian towns. Households average 3.1 people, and 6.6% are one-parent families. Ages ↓
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 74% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 99% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 20%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
25% of residents are under 15, a share 97% of Canadian towns don’t reach
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
With a median age of 37.7, Aspen Woods is younger than 78% of Canadian towns. The wider picture: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. 45–49 is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Aspen Woods, 37.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 93% of Canadian towns: 3.1 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Set against 8.2% across Canada’s towns, 6.6% of households are one-parent families in Aspen Woods.
Aspen Woods sits below 91% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (4.8%)
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Across Canada’s towns, 46% of residents 15 and over are married; in Aspen Woods, 63%. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Below 68% of Canadian towns: 17% of households rent their home
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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. The usual figure: a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. The census found that 77% of households live in a single-detached house in Aspen Woods.
Household income, middle of the range: $199,000 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Aspen Woods’s median household took in $199,000 before tax, 131% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Alberta’s towns, half of households had more than $92,200 before tax. COVID-19 benefits went to 28% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Residents without Canadian citizenship: 14%, a higher share than 80% of Canadian towns
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 50%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (Canada’s towns: 11%). On average, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (61%), then in Europe (15%).
More residents with no religion than 76% of Canadian towns: 44%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
1.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity, against 2.8% across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (9.1%) and Hindu (3.6%). By way of comparison, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
In Aspen Woods, 8.5% of residents speak English and French, more than in 55% of Canadian towns
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home, 19% mostly speak another language; 2.1% speak neither English nor French. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Fewer residents whose mother tongue is French than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns: 0.8%.
Aspen Woods ranks above 99% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 74%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 1.3% here, 9.5% in the typical town. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 64% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 64% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 9,379 to 9,846 people, the 12th youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Oromocto is the youngest of them at 31.8; Qualicum Beach, at 67.5, the oldest. Next to Aspen Woods on this scale come Stoney Creek (37.4), Revelstoke (37.6), North London (38.3) and Northeast (38.6).
Aspen Woods sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | — | 37.7 | 6.8% | 40% |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 1.2 km | 37.4 | 7.6% | 31% |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 1.7 km | 44.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Springbank Hill | 9,913 | 2.3 km | 40.4 | 11% | 34% |
| Coach Hill | 3,383 | 2.4 km | 44.7 | 23% | 25% |
| Patterson | 4,169 | 2.8 km | 48.6 | 25% | 33% |
| Cougar Ridge | 7,101 | 3.1 km | 36.9 | 5.9% | 34% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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. Each comparison is its own median: over Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
Questions about Aspen Woods’s residents
Is Aspen Woods good for families?
25% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 71% of households and one-parent families 6.6%. Schools near Aspen Woods are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Aspen Woods?
Half of Aspen Woods’s households had more than $199,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Aspen Woods?
The 2021 Census counted 9,606 people in Aspen Woods.
What is the average age in Aspen Woods?
The median age is 37.7, younger than 78% of Canadian towns. 25% are under 15 and 6.8% 65 or older.
Is Aspen Woods bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 8.5% are. Another 0% speak only French and 89% only English, and French is the first language of 0.8%.
How diverse is Aspen Woods?
Immigrants: 40% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 53%. Indigenous identity: 1.1%.
What religion are people in Aspen Woods?
44% said they have no religion and 39% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. 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).