Photo: LittleT889 · CC0A smaller share of renter households than 94% of Canadian towns: 8%
Here 8.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. Across Scenic Acres, 16% of households are one person living alone. Few places have so few children under 15: 13% here, fewer than in 78% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood had 8,026 residents in 2,935 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Scenic Acres
Older than most towns
Line Scenic Acres’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 50.7; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 25% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Many graduates
59% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 12% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Scenic Acres is older than 87% of Canadian towns: a median age of 50.7
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 25%, against 19% across Canada’s towns. In Scenic Acres, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Scenic Acres, 50.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Scenic Acres households average 2.7 people, larger than in 74% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
5.3% of households are one-parent families (Canada’s towns: 8.2%).
A smaller share of common-law partners than 92% of Canadian towns: 4.5%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
23% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Across the comparison, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Households in single-detached houses make up 90% in Scenic Acres, more than in 88% of Canadian towns
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Typically, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 3% date from 2001 or later, 0.3% from before 1961.
The midpoint household income is $140,300 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Scenic Acres’s median household took in $140,300 before tax, 63% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Alberta’s towns, the household in the middle had $92,200. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 24% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Scenic Acres: 24% of residents are immigrants, above 63% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
Most recent wave: 18% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). On average, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (56%) and in Europe (26%).
Visible minority residents: 24%, a higher share than 60% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (2.4%). The usual figure: 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. On Indigenous residents, Scenic Acres sits lower than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns: 1.8%. Residents with no religion make up 36%, against 35% across Canada’s towns.
73% have English as their mother tongue; 8.2% also speak French
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
At home: English 85%, French 0.3%. Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.3%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Above 93% of Canadian towns: 59% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 1.1% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
An employment rate of 53%
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 25% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 53% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (7,899 to 8,158 people), the 4th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The youngest is Taber (27.4) and the oldest Haliburton Village (59.2). Langstaff (49.5), Acton Vale (49.6), Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est (50.8) and Clare (56): the towns nearest Scenic Acres in median age.
Every neighbour of Scenic Acres has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenic Acres | 8,026 | — | 50.7 | 25% | 24% |
| Arbour Lake | 10,454 | 2.0 km | 45.9 | 20% | 36% |
| Ranchlands | 7,376 | 2.1 km | 38 | 14% | 26% |
| Tuscany | 19,986 | 2.2 km | 37.8 | 8.7% | 23% |
| Silver Springs | 9,042 | 2.2 km | 45.2 | 22% | 18% |
| Royal Oak | 12,343 | 3.0 km | 38.3 | 10% | 39% |
| Hawkwood | 9,188 | 3.3 km | 47.1 | 21% | 35% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
Questions about Scenic Acres’s residents
How diverse is Scenic Acres?
Immigrants: 24% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 24%. Indigenous identity: 1.8%.
What religion are people in Scenic Acres?
36% said they have no religion and 58% that they are Christian; 6.7% named another faith.
Is Scenic Acres good for families?
13% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 71% of households and one-parent families 5.3%. Schools near Scenic Acres are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Scenic Acres?
Half of Scenic Acres’s households had more than $140,300 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Scenic Acres?
Scenic Acres had 8,026 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Scenic Acres?
The median age is 50.7, older than 87% of Canadian towns. 13% are under 15 and 25% 65 or older.
Is Scenic Acres bilingual?
8.2% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 91% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1.3%.
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).