Photo: Joseph Fred Spalding · Public domainOlder than 91% of Canadian towns: half of Crowsnest Pass is over 52.8
Residents with no religion: 51%, above 87% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts Crowsnest Pass’s population at 6,011 for July 2025. 6.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Higher than in 79% of Canadian towns: 84% of households live in a single-detached house.
What stands out about the people of Crowsnest Pass
Older than most towns
Crowsnest Pass’s median age is 52.8; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 28% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A +2% change since 2016: slower than 65% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 6% higher again. Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Alberta’s towns, by more than +1%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 88% of Canadian towns, at 28%
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, 13% of residents are under 15 in Crowsnest Pass. On average, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Crowsnest Pass, 52.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women.
Crowsnest Pass households average 2 people, smaller than in 90% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
By its share of one-person households (34%), Crowsnest Pass is above just over three quarters of Canadian towns. In Crowsnest Pass, 5.6% of households are one-parent families.
Crowsnest Pass ranks above 66% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 51%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Against a figure of 11% across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners in Crowsnest Pass comes in at 12%. Measured more widely, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Crowsnest Pass sits below 73% of Canadian towns for renter households (16%)
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. As a reference point, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 42% predate 1961, 15% date from 2001 or later.
Household income, middle of the range: $79,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Crowsnest Pass’s, at $79,000, is 8% lower. The median across Alberta’s towns is $92,200. Pandemic benefits reached 18% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
A higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 68% of Canadian towns, at 13%
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (59%), then in the Americas (20%). On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 67% of Canadian towns: 9.1% of residents are immigrants. What’s more, 18% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
Above 71% of Canadian towns: 5.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, Crowsnest Pass has 2.9%. For Indigenous residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 2.8%.
English is the mother tongue of 92%, and 3.4% speak French as well
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
Across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents is 7.5%; Crowsnest Pass has 3.4%. Census figures put residents whose mother tongue is French at 1.2% in the town.
In Crowsnest Pass, 17% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 76% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 10% here, 9.5% in the typical town. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 50%
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
50% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 28% are 65 or more.
Of 41 towns its size (5,916 to 6,120 people), the 5th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans Inkster Gardens, youngest at 33.4, to Nutana Urban Centre, oldest at 62. The towns whose median age is nearest to Crowsnest Pass’s: Amqui (52), Cumberland County, Subdivision C (52.8), Lac-Mégantic (53.6) and Sainte-Anne-des-Monts (53.6).
Crowsnest Pass is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page. No closer places have figures: these lie 31–46 km from Crowsnest Pass.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowsnest Pass | 6,011 | — | 52.8 | 28% | 9.1% |
| Pincher Creek No. 9 | 3,176 | 31.4 km | 49.6 | 26% | 8.4% |
| Sparwood | 4,486 | 34.4 km | 38.4 | 14% | 6.3% |
| Electoral Area A, East Kootenay | 2,092 | 38.2 km | 42.8 | 18% | 6.7% |
| Pincher Creek | 3,890 | 39.1 km | 45.2 | 27% | 8.9% |
| Fernie | 7,086 | 45.6 km | 38 | 15% | 14% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Crowsnest Pass’s residents
How diverse is Crowsnest Pass?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 9.1%. A visible minority makes up 2.9% and Indigenous residents 5.2%.
What religion are people in Crowsnest Pass?
Most often Christian (48%) or no religion (51%); other religions make up 1.1%.
Is Crowsnest Pass good for families?
Children under 15 are 13% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 54% of households and one-parent families 5.6%. Schools near Crowsnest Pass are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Crowsnest Pass?
Median total household income in Crowsnest Pass was $79,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Crowsnest Pass?
The latest figure is an estimate: 6,011 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Crowsnest Pass counted 5,695, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Crowsnest Pass?
Half the residents are older than 52.8 and half younger, older than 91% of Canadian towns; 13% are children under 15 and 28% are 65 or over.
Is Crowsnest Pass bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 3.4% are. Another 0% speak only French and 97% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
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).