Charleswood ranks above 85% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 49%
Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%; Charleswood has 81%. One-parent families are rarer here than in 84% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 5,642 residents and 2,295 households in the neighbourhood. The census found that 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 locally.
What stands out about the people of Charleswood
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 58% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 14%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More children under 15 than 55% of Canadian towns: 17%
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 7.7% of residents. With a median age of 42.3, Charleswood is older than 51% of Canadian towns. Set beside that, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over make up 18%, against 19% across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Charleswood, 42.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
Charleswood households average 2.5 people, larger than in 53% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-person households account for 27%.
50% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 63% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 28% of adults (typical: 27%). Common-law partners: 9% of the total. Measured more widely, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Only 25% of households rent their home in Charleswood
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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
34% of homes were built before 1961 and 1.3% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Median household income here: $115,800 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Charleswood’s, at $115,800, is 35% higher. The provincial yardstick is $92,200, the median across Alberta’s towns. The pandemic’s benefits: 25% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
A larger share of residents who moved in within the year than 59% of Canadian towns: 12%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (42%) and in Europe (35%). As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Of the immigrants living here, 28% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
A higher share of visible minority residents than 55% of Canadian towns, at 20%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
On the census count, 2.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity. Against that, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
Charleswood sits above 67% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (13%)
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 90%, French 0.3%. Residents whose mother tongue is French are rarer here than in 62% of Canadian towns. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
58% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 93% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 2.2% (typical 9.5%). As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
55% of adults were employed in May 2021
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 55%; 18% of residents are 65 or over.
19th highest median age among 41 towns of 5,542 to 5,733
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Montcalm is the youngest of them at 27.8; Osoyoos, at 63.2, the oldest. The towns whose median age is nearest to Charleswood’s: Saint Marys (42), Braeside (42.1), Waterloo (42.8) and Parkview (43.8).
The towns around Charleswood are all younger
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleswood | 5,642 | — | 42.3 | 18% | 17% |
| Banff Trail | 4,175 | 1.5 km | 31.7 | 9.6% | 24% |
| Brentwood | 7,369 | 1.6 km | 35.8 | 16% | 24% |
| Capitol Hill | 6,135 | 2.0 km | 36.7 | 11% | 18% |
| University Heights | 4,031 | 2.4 km | 32.1 | 13% | 27% |
| Mount Pleasant | 9,224 | 2.8 km | 38.1 | 12% | 17% |
| Thorncliffe | 15,570 | 3.0 km | 40.5 | 17% | 26% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- 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.
- 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. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Charleswood’s residents
What religion are people in Charleswood?
Most often Christian (46%) or no religion (49%); other religions make up 5.3%.
Is Charleswood good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 55% of households and one-parent families 5.9%. Schools near Charleswood are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Charleswood?
Median total household income in Charleswood was $115,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Charleswood?
Charleswood had 5,642 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Charleswood?
Half the residents are older than 42.3 and half younger, older than 51% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 18% are 65 or over.
Is Charleswood bilingual?
English and French: 13% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 86%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 1.2%.
How diverse is Charleswood?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 17%. A visible minority makes up 20% and Indigenous residents 2.4%.
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).