Photo: outofthought · CC BY-SA 3.0More households in buildings of five or more storeys than 92% of Canadian towns: 33%
Compared with 19% across Canada’s towns, 14% of residents are 65 or over here. Discovery Ridge counted 4,256 residents and 1,625 households at the 2021 Census. The share of immigrants stands at 25%. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 72% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Discovery Ridge
Many graduates
68% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 98% of Canadian towns; 15% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
33% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 92% of Canadian towns; 42% of homes are condominiums. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
15% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 94% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Half of Discovery Ridge’s residents are over 44.6, older than in 65% of Canadian towns. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Discovery Ridge, 44.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
Discovery Ridge households average 2.6 people, larger than in 71% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The figure for one-parent families is 6.4% in Discovery Ridge and 8.2% across Canada’s towns. The census found that nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone in the neighbourhood.
6.7% of residents 15 and over live common-law, fewer than in 82% of Canadian towns
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 26% of adults, beside a typical 27%. Locally, 57% of residents 15 and over are married. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Discovery Ridge ranks below 65% of Canadian towns on renter households: 19%
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 single-detached houses: 57% here and 64% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home.
Households here have a median income of $142,100 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 Discovery Ridge had $142,100 before tax, 65% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 27% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
25% 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 30%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Residents without Canadian citizenship account for 6.4%. Of the immigrants living here, 26% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
Discovery Ridge ranks above 72% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 42%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents make up 23%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. By way of comparison, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Indigenous identity: 1.3% (2.8%).
In Discovery Ridge, 10% of residents speak English and French, more than in 62% of Canadian towns
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 86%, French 0.4%. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.3%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
In Discovery Ridge, 68% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 1.1%, beside a typical 9.5%. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 57% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 57% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Ranked by age, 20th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Claresholm is the oldest at 56.8, Fraipont the youngest at 33.6. The closest ages to Discovery Ridge’s belong to Invermere (44), Simonds (44.4), Saint-Ambroise (44.8) and Westphal (44.8).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Discovery Ridge
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Ridge | 4,256 | — | 44.6 | 14% | 25% |
| Springbank Hill | 9,913 | 1.7 km | 40.4 | 11% | 34% |
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | 3.2 km | 37.7 | 6.8% | 40% |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 3.5 km | 49.4 | 23% | 37% |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 4.3 km | 44.7 | 21% | 27% |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 4.4 km | 37.4 | 7.6% | 31% |
| Glamorgan | 6,479 | 4.5 km | 40.5 | 16% | 23% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- 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 Discovery Ridge’s residents
What is the population of Discovery Ridge?
4,256, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Discovery Ridge alone.
What is the average age in Discovery Ridge?
Half the residents are older than 44.6 and half younger, older than 65% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 14% are 65 or over.
Is Discovery Ridge bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 10% are. Another 0% speak only French and 89% only English, and French is the first language of 1.3%.
How diverse is Discovery Ridge?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 25%. A visible minority makes up 23% and Indigenous residents 1.3%.
What religion are people in Discovery Ridge?
Most often Christian (49%) or no religion (42%); other religions make up 8.5%.
Is Discovery Ridge good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 64% of households and one-parent families 6.4%. Schools near Discovery Ridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Discovery Ridge?
Median total household income in Discovery Ridge was $142,100 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
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).