Younger than 99% of Canadian towns: half of Clear Hills is under 30.6
The share of renter households trails 93% of Canadian towns: 8.6%. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 3,110 residents; the 2021 Census found 930 households. Here, 4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Few places have as many Indigenous residents: 6.7% here, more than in 78% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Clear Hills
Younger than most towns
Line Clear Hills’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 30.6; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 30% are under 15 and 14% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
±0% since 2016, a pace below 80% of Canadian towns
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 3% higher again. Across Alberta’s towns the median is +1%, and across Canada’s towns +4%.
In Clear Hills, 30% of residents are under 15, more than in 99% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Where 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, Clear Hills has 14%. Across Canada’s towns, 16% of residents are under 15.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Clear Hills, 30.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women.
Larger households than 90% of Canadian towns: 3 people on average
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.
Compared with 8.2% across Canada’s towns, 3.8% of households are one-parent families here. What’s more, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 69% of Canadian towns.
Clear Hills ranks above 97% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 62%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 22% of adults (typical: 27%). Typically, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 7.7% of the total.
Clear Hills sits above 70% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (78%)
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
Just over one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. For households in single-detached houses, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 64%.
Half above, half below $68,000 a year in household income
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Clear Hills’s households had a total income below $68,000, 21% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. COVID-19 benefits went to 18% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
6.3% of residents are immigrants
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
Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Clear Hills has 6.3%. 1.2% of residents are not Canadian citizens.
Residents with no religion: 25%, a lower share than 77% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 0.9% in Clear Hills. Residents with no religion: 35% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
English is the mother tongue of 54%, and 0.8% speak French as well
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
0.3% of residents have French as their mother tongue (Canada’s towns: 1.5%). On top of that, on bilingual residents, Clear Hills sits lower than 99% of Canadian towns: 0.8%.
Clear Hills ranks below 99% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 6.1%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 48% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 64% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 64%.
Among 41 towns of 3,060 to 3,160 people, the 3rd youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The youngest of these towns is La Loche, at 25.6; the oldest, Valhalla, is at 66. Nearest to Clear Hills in age: La Loche (25.6), Ainslie Wood East (28.2), Crystallina Nera West (31.7) and Lower Mount Royal (34.1).
Every nearby town is older than Clear Hills
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page. The nearest places to Clear Hills with figures are 36–75 km away.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Hills | 3,110 | — | 30.6 | 14% | 6.3% |
| Fairview | 2,918 | 35.8 km | 44.4 | 23% | 10% |
| Fairview No. 136 | 1,647 | 36.8 km | 44 | 19% | 5.4% |
| Saddle Hills County | 2,449 | 57.2 km | 40 | 18% | 3.1% |
| Birch Hills County | 1,522 | 72.4 km | 41.6 | 20% | 5.4% |
| Grimshaw | 2,799 | 74.8 km | 38.8 | 17% | 6.6% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Clear Hills’s residents
What is the average age in Clear Hills?
30.6 is the median age, younger than 99% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 30%. 65 and over: 14%.
Is Clear Hills bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 0.8% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.3%.
How diverse is Clear Hills?
Immigrants make up 6.3% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 0.9% are members of a visible minority, and 6.7% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Clear Hills?
Christian: 75%. No religion: 25%. Another religion: 0%.
Is Clear Hills good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 30%. 70% of households are couple families and 3.8% one-parent families. Schools near Clear Hills are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Clear Hills?
$68,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Clear Hills (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Clear Hills?
Statistics Canada estimates 3,110 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 3,006 in Clear Hills, about the same as 2016.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).