Photo: under_volcano from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 97% of Canadian towns, at 5.7%
Across Canada’s towns, 35% of residents said they have no religion; in Oakridge, 47%. Census day 2021: 5,623 residents and 2,260 households in the neighbourhood. Here, 13% of households rent their home. More residents aged 65 and over than in nearly four fifths of Canadian towns: 25%.
Oakridge is older than 73% of Canadian towns: a median age of 46.2
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.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 7.6% of residents. Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than in 70% of Canadian towns: 9.7%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Oakridge, 46.2. 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.
Oakridge ranks below 73% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 21%
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.
A household here has 2.5 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. On average, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. Locally, 9.1% of households are one-parent families.
58% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 91% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: just over a fifth of adults, against a typical 27%. Common-law partners are rarer here than in nearly four fifths of Canadian towns. Typically, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Oakridge sits above 64% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (74%)
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
Older homes outnumber new: 1.8% predate 1961, 0.4% date from 2001 or later.
Half of households earn more than $119,000 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Oakridge’s median household took in $119,000 before tax, 38% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Alberta’s towns, the household in the middle had $92,200. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 25% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Oakridge: 20% of residents are immigrants, above 55% of Canadian towns
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (50%), then in Asia (26%). Oakridge has fewer residents without Canadian citizenship than 63% of Canadian towns, at 3.3%. As a yardstick, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals are 13% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
47% said they have no religion, more than say they are Christian
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Jewish (2.8%). Compared with other places, Indigenous residents are scarce here: 0.9%, fewer than in 83% of Canadian towns. What’s more, across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority; in Oakridge, 14%.
Bilingual residents: 8.9%, a higher share than 57% 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
6% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.4% speak neither official language. The share of bilingual residents across Canada’s towns is 7.5%. At 1.3%, residents whose mother tongue is French sit close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Oakridge sits above 81% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (46%)
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
3.1% of those aged 25 to 64 have no formal credential, where the typical town has 9.5%.
Employment: 53% of residents 15 and over had a job
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
53% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 25% are 65 or more.
The 13th oldest of 41 towns of 5,533 to 5,729 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Montcalm is the youngest of them at 27.8; Osoyoos, at 63.2, the oldest. Carp (45.4), Memramcook (45.6), Dunrobin (46.4) and West Lorne (48.8): the towns nearest Oakridge in median age.
Of the 6 towns nearest Oakridge, 1 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
- 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. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond 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.
- 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.
Questions about Oakridge’s residents
What is the average age in Oakridge?
The median age is 46.2, older than 73% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 25% 65 or older.
Is Oakridge bilingual?
English and French: 8.9% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 90%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 1.3%.
How diverse is Oakridge?
Immigrants: 20% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 14%. Indigenous identity: 0.9%.
What religion are people in Oakridge?
47% said they have no religion and 46% that they are Christian; 7.1% named another faith.
Is Oakridge good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 62% of households and one-parent families 9.1%. Schools near Oakridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Oakridge?
Half of Oakridge’s households had more than $119,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Oakridge?
Oakridge had 5,623 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).