Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0Currie Barracks ranks above 89% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 41%
23% of households live in a single-detached house (Canada’s towns: 64%). Currie Barracks has more residents who moved in within the year than 88% of Canadian towns, at 17%. The 2021 Census put the neighbourhood’s population at 7,342, in 3,170 households. Census figures put residents with no religion at 42% locally.
What stands out about the people of Currie Barracks
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 51% of households, more than in 86% of Canadian towns, and 41% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 41%, more than in 89% of Canadian towns, and 20% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 55% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 11%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Half of Currie Barracks is under 40.4, younger than 61% of Canadian towns
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.
The largest age band is 35–39: 7.8% of residents. Among Alberta’s towns, Country Hills Village has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 36%. Compared with 16% across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are under 15 here.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Currie Barracks, 40.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women.
Smaller households than 79% of Canadian towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
Nearly one in ten households are one-parent families (Canada’s towns: 8.2%).
In Currie Barracks, 40% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 67% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
30% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Common-law partners: 9.6% of the total. Typically, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
51% of households rent their home, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
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
Half of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 14% built before 1961. Higher than in 69% of Canadian towns: 3.2% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. The benchmark for renter households across Canada’s towns: 25%.
The median household brings in $80,300 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Currie Barracks had $80,300 before tax, 7% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $92,200, the median across Alberta’s towns. The pandemic’s benefits: 30% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Currie Barracks sits above 58% of Canadian towns for immigrants (21%)
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
Of the immigrants living here, 30% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Here, 6% of residents are not Canadian citizens. Measured more widely, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns.
23% of residents belong to a visible minority, a share 59% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (6.7%). Across the comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. At 2.4%, Indigenous residents sit close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Currie Barracks sits above 62% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (10%)
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, 9.1% mostly speak another language; 0.9% speak neither English nor French. More residents whose mother tongue is French than in 61% of Canadian towns: 2%. The benchmark for bilingual residents across Canada’s towns: 7.5%.
A higher share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 90% of Canadian towns, at 55%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Currie Barracks, 55%, and 20% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 3.5%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
59% of adults were employed in May 2021
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 59% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
20th highest median age among 41 towns of 7,208 to 7,476
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest of these towns is Blairmore Suburban Centre, at 31.8; the oldest, Trent Lakes, is at 58. Nearest to Currie Barracks in age: Teston (39), Hampstead (39.6), Brown's Corners (40.5) and Saint-Joseph-du-Lac (40.8).
3 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Currie Barracks
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
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town 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.
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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.
Questions about Currie Barracks’s residents
What is the average age in Currie Barracks?
40.4 is the median age, younger than 61% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 17%. 65 and over: 20%.
Is Currie Barracks bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 10% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 89% speak only English and 0.1% only French; 2% grew up with French.
How diverse is Currie Barracks?
Immigrants make up 21% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 23% are members of a visible minority, and 2.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Currie Barracks?
Christian: 48%. No religion: 42%. Another religion: 11%.
Is Currie Barracks good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 17%. 42% of households are couple families and 9.4% one-parent families. Schools near Currie Barracks are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Currie Barracks?
$80,300 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Currie Barracks (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Currie Barracks?
Currie Barracks had 7,342 residents at the 2021 Census.
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).