A higher share of residents with no religion than 78% of Canadian towns, at 45%
Compared with 64% across Canada’s towns, 55% of households live in a single-detached house here. Census day 2021: 5,706 residents and 2,480 households in Braeside. Across Braeside, just over a fifth of residents are immigrants. Few places have as many one-parent families: 9.5% here, more than in 69% of Canadian towns.
In Braeside, 15% of residents are under 15, fewer than in 67% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 30–34 than any other five-year age: 8.1% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 19% in Braeside. With a median age of 42.1, Braeside is older than half of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Braeside, 42.1. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Households here average 2.3 people, below 64% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-person households stands at 28%.
57% of adults are married or living common-law
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 28% of adults, beside a typical 27%. Across Braeside, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Fewer renter households than 54% of Canadian towns: 24%
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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 74% of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Median gross household income: $92,200 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Braeside’s median household took in $92,200 before tax, 7% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $92,200 is the median household income across Alberta’s towns. 31% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Braeside sits above 59% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (12%)
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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
Most immigrants were born in Asia (36%) or in Europe (36%). To put it in context, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Residents without Canadian citizenship are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 6.2%.
17% of residents belong to a visible minority, a share 52% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
For Braeside, the census puts Indigenous residents at 3.1%. Visible minority residents make up 15% across Canada’s towns.
78% have English as their mother tongue; 6.5% also speak French
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 88%, French 0.4%. Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French; in Braeside, 6.5%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 31%, a higher share than 57% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 5.4% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
59% of adults were employed in May 2021
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 59%.
Youngest by rank: 19th of 41 towns of 5,610 to 5,796 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Montcalm is the youngest of them at 27.8; Osoyoos, at 63.2, the oldest. In age, Braeside keeps company with County Court (41.9), Saint Marys (42), Charleswood (42.3) and Remington Park (42.3).
A younger town than 4 of the 6 around it: Braeside
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Alberta’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- 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 Braeside’s residents
What is the average age in Braeside?
42.1 is the median age, older than 50% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 15%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Braeside bilingual?
6.5% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 93% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1.5%.
How diverse is Braeside?
Immigrants make up 21% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 17% are members of a visible minority, and 3.1% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Braeside?
Christian: 49%. No religion: 45%. Another religion: 6.7%.
Is Braeside good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 15%. 52% of households are couple families and 9.5% one-parent families. Schools near Braeside are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Braeside?
$92,200 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Braeside (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Braeside?
The 2021 Census counted 5,706 people in Braeside.
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).