Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0Below 88% of Canadian towns: 11% of households rent their home
The share of residents who moved in within the year trails 90% of Canadian towns: 7.1%. For Woodbine, the census puts one-person households at 17%. At 43%, the share of residents with no religion is higher than in 74% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 8,075 residents in 3,045 households.
Woodbine is older than 58% of Canadian towns: a median age of 43.5
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.
60–64 is the most common age band: 9.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Across Woodbine, 17% of residents are under 15. The highest share aged 65 or over among Alberta’s towns is Country Hills Village’s: 36%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Woodbine, 43.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
Woodbine households average 2.7 people, larger than in 72% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Nearly one in ten households are one-parent families.
58% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 90% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns, Woodbine has 8%. Singles who have never married make up 23% of adults, beside a typical 27%.
Households in single-detached houses make up 86% in Woodbine, more than in 82% of Canadian towns
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 buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. On average, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $117,300 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Woodbine’s median household took in $117,300 before tax, 36% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Alberta’s towns, the median household income is $92,200. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 28% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Woodbine: 26% of residents are immigrants, above 66% 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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (43%) and in Europe (33%). Immigrants make up 17% across Canada’s towns. 18% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
Visible minority residents: 20%, a higher share than 56% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Jewish (2.6%). Visible minority residents make up 15% across Canada’s towns. Little separates the share of Indigenous residents here, 3.6%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
76% have English as their mother tongue; 6.3% also speak French
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, 11% mostly speak another language; 0.9% speak neither English nor French. Woodbine has fewer residents whose mother tongue is French than 62% of Canadian towns, at 1.2%. Across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents is 7.5%; Woodbine has 6.3%.
43% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 76% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 3.4% (typical 9.5%). For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 54% of residents aged 15 and over
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.
With 19% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 54% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Ranked by age, 17th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Taber is the youngest of them at 27.4; Haliburton Village, at 59.2, the oldest. Holdom (42.1), Ottewell (42.9), Elmvale - Canterbury (43.6) and Broadview (44.2): the towns nearest Woodbine in median age.
Nearby, 2 of 6 towns have older populations than Woodbine
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about Woodbine’s residents
How diverse is Woodbine?
Immigrants: 26% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 20%. Indigenous identity: 3.6%.
What religion are people in Woodbine?
43% said they have no religion and 48% that they are Christian; 9.1% named another faith.
Is Woodbine good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 66% of households and one-parent families 8.3%. Schools near Woodbine are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Woodbine?
Half of Woodbine’s households had more than $117,300 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Woodbine?
8,075, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Woodbine alone.
What is the average age in Woodbine?
The median age is 43.5, older than 58% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Woodbine bilingual?
English and French: 6.3% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 93%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 1.2%.
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).