A lower share of one-person households than 95% of Canadian towns, at 12%
10% of households rent their home, against 25% across Canada’s towns. Meanwhile, with a median age of 43.9, Sundance is older than 61% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census put the neighbourhood’s population at 9,043, in 3,165 households. Across Sundance, just over two in five residents said they have no religion.
Above 78% of Canadian towns: 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Where 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, Sundance has 17%. By way of comparison, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sundance, 43.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
2.9 people per household, more than in 85% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Census figures put one-parent families at 7.1% in Sundance.
Common-law partners make up 5% in Sundance, less than in 91% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 25% of adults (typical: 27%). At 61%, the share of married residents 15 and over is higher than in 97% of Canadian towns. Common-law partners: 11% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
In Sundance, 90% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 89% 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. Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%.
$135,600 a year: where the middle household sits
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Sundance’s households had a total income above $135,600, 58% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. 27% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Residents who moved in within the year: 8.6%, a lower share than 77% 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 immigrants were born in Asia (44%) or in Europe (36%). On residents without Canadian citizenship, Sundance sits lower than 61% of Canadian towns: 3.6%. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals are nearly a quarter of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
55% said they are Christian and 41% that they have no religion
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
There is little gap on Indigenous residents: 3.6%, about the same as across Canada’s towns. Visible minority residents: 15% of the total.
83% have English as their mother tongue; 6.7% 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
Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1%. At home, 7.1% mostly speak another language; 0.6% speak neither English nor French.
Sundance sits above 71% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (40%)
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 4% (typical 9.5%). As a yardstick, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 57%
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.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 57%.
Oldest by rank: 15th of 41 towns of 8,847 to 9,224 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 32.3 in Hampton Village to 52 in Pictou County, Subdivision C. Chelsea (43.6), Camrose County (43.6), Old East York (44) and Riverbend (44.6): the towns nearest Sundance in median age.
2 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Sundance
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- 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.
Questions about Sundance’s residents
What is the median income in Sundance?
Half of Sundance’s households had more than $135,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Sundance?
The 2021 Census counted 9,043 people in Sundance.
What is the average age in Sundance?
The median age is 43.9, older than 61% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 17% 65 or older.
Is Sundance bilingual?
English and French: 6.7% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 93%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 1%.
How diverse is Sundance?
Immigrants: 19% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 15%. Indigenous identity: 3.6%.
What religion are people in Sundance?
41% said they have no religion and 55% that they are Christian; 4.7% named another faith.
Is Sundance good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 72% of households and one-parent families 7.1%. Schools near Sundance are on its Schools page.
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).