A median age of 38.6: Glenbrook is younger than 73% of Canadian towns
One in ten households are one-parent families, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are scarce here: 15%, fewer than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Glenbrook counted 10,185 residents and 4,250 households at the 2021 Census. Locally, 39% of households live in a single-detached house.
In Glenbrook, 17% of residents are under 15, more than in 62% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. The wider picture: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Glenbrook, 38.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women.
Glenbrook ranks above 65% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 31%
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. The share of one-person households across Canada’s towns is 27%.
Below 64% of Canadian towns: 42% of residents 15 and over are married
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 31% of adults, beside a typical 27%. 12% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
A higher share of renter households than 74% of Canadian towns, at 40%
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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
The share of households in buildings of five or more storeys tops 66% of Canadian towns: 2.5%. 34% of homes were built before 1961 and 10% in 2001 or later. Across the comparison, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
$89,400 a year: where the middle household sits
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Glenbrook’s median household took in $89,400 before tax, about the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Alberta’s towns the median is $92,200. In 2020, 32% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
A higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 75% of Canadian towns, at 14%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 43% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1% of residents. Residents without Canadian citizenship: just over a tenth of the total. Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of residents with no religion than 72% of Canadian towns, at 42%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
By its share of visible minority residents (28%), Glenbrook is above nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. The wider picture: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (5.5%).
7.9% of residents speak English and French, more than in 53% of Canadian towns
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
12% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.2% speak neither official language. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.5%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Glenbrook ranks above 75% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 43%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 6.9%, against 9.5%. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 61%
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 61%.
41 towns of 10,001 to 10,378 people: this is the 9th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is Mount Pleasant North (33.2), at the other Leeds and the Thousand Islands (52). Hinton (38), Pineridge (38.4), Professors Lake (38.7) and Vincent (39.1): the towns nearest Glenbrook in median age.
Glenbrook is younger than 4 of its 6 nearest neighbours
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenbrook | 10,185 | — | 38.6 | 15% | 27% |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 1.2 km | 49.4 | 23% | 37% |
| Rosscarrock | 3,862 | 1.5 km | 35.9 | 9.8% | 41% |
| Glamorgan | 6,479 | 1.5 km | 40.5 | 16% | 23% |
| Westgate | 3,139 | 1.6 km | 42 | 17% | 20% |
| Killarney/Glengarry | 7,935 | 1.7 km | 35.9 | 9.4% | 23% |
| Currie Barracks | 7,342 | 2.5 km | 40.4 | 20% | 21% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Alberta’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
- 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. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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 Glenbrook’s residents
Is Glenbrook good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 48% of households and one-parent families 10%. Schools near Glenbrook are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Glenbrook?
Half of Glenbrook’s households had more than $89,400 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Glenbrook?
Glenbrook had 10,185 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Glenbrook?
The median age is 38.6, younger than 73% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 15% 65 or older.
Is Glenbrook bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.5%.
How diverse is Glenbrook?
Immigrants: 27% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 28%. Indigenous identity: 3%.
What religion are people in Glenbrook?
42% said they have no religion and 49% that they are Christian; 9% named another faith.
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).