Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainBridlewood ranks below 95% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 8.7%
A household here has 3 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. Meanwhile, with a median age of 37, Bridlewood is younger than 82% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 12,547 residents in 4,135 households. On the census count, 27% of residents said they have no religion.
What stands out about the people of Bridlewood
More immigrants than most towns
48% of residents are immigrants, against 25% across Alberta’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (65%) and in Europe (16%); 46% of them arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Bridlewood: 21% of residents are under 15, above 87% of Canadian towns
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 45–49: 9.2% of residents, 1.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bridlewood, 37. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
A smaller share of one-person households than 87% of Canadian towns: 16%
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
With one-parent families at 9.6%, Bridlewood is ahead of 71% of Canadian towns on that count. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Bridlewood sits below 77% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (7.4%)
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 29% of adults (typical: 27%). Across the comparison, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
19% of households rent their home, below 65% of Canadian towns
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
Where 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns, Bridlewood has 68%. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Median gross household income: $109,500 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $109,500, the middle household in Bridlewood out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 27%. The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 38% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Above 90% of Canadian towns: 48% of residents are immigrants
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 55%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Across Canada’s towns, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens; in Bridlewood, 17%. On the census count, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
51% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 85% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (4.6%). For visible minority residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 15%. At 2.3%, the share of Indigenous residents is in line with the figure across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 54%, and 3.9% speak French as well
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
Set against 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 3.9% of residents speak English and French in Bridlewood. At home, 25% mostly speak another language; 1.7% speak neither English nor French. 0.8% of residents have French as their mother tongue, fewer than in 81% of Canadian towns.
Bridlewood ranks above 68% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 38%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 5.4%, beside a typical 9.5%. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
65% of adults were employed in May 2021
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
More people work here than in the typical town: 65%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 12,291 to 12,808 people, the 10th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages climb from 32.9 (Spring Valley) to 60.4 (Elliot Lake) across the group. Highland West (36.3), Chalmers (36.6), DT Hospital (38) and Royal Oak (38.3): the towns nearest Bridlewood in median age.
Of the 6 towns nearest Bridlewood, 5 are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
- 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.
Questions about Bridlewood’s residents
What is the median income in Bridlewood?
Half of Bridlewood’s households had more than $109,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Bridlewood?
12,547, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Bridlewood alone.
What is the average age in Bridlewood?
The median age is 37, younger than 82% of Canadian towns. 21% are under 15 and 8.7% 65 or older.
Is Bridlewood bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 3.9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.8%.
How diverse is Bridlewood?
Immigrants: 48% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 51%. Indigenous identity: 2.3%.
What religion are people in Bridlewood?
27% said they have no religion and 62% that they are Christian; 11% named another faith.
Is Bridlewood good for families?
21% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 59% of households and one-parent families 9.6%. Schools near Bridlewood are on its Schools page.
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).