Photo: Kaz Andrew from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Alberta Avenue sits above 92% of Canadian towns for Indigenous residents (14%)
Residents aged 65 and over: 13%, below 82% of Canadian towns. Alberta Avenue has more renter households than 81% of Canadian towns, at 45%. There were 2,670 households in the neighbourhood at the 2021 Census, home to 6,097 people. Across Alberta Avenue, 30% of residents are immigrants.
What stands out about the people of Alberta Avenue
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 14% of residents, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, and 7.4% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Younger than 66% of Canadian towns: half of Alberta Avenue is under 39.6
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 30–34 than any other five-year age: 8.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Census figures put children under 15 at 14% in Alberta Avenue.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Alberta Avenue, 39.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 111 men for every 100 women.
More one-person households than 85% of Canadian towns: 38%
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
9.9% of households are one-parent families; across Canada’s towns the figure is 8.2%. For comparison, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. A household here holds 2.3 people on average. Shared houses stand out: one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 96% of Canadian towns.
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 85% of Canadian towns: 31%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 40% of adults, beside a typical 27%. Set beside that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. For Alberta Avenue, the census puts common-law partners at 11%.
Fewer households in single-detached houses than 56% of Canadian towns: 59%
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
16% of 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. Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%.
Household income at the median: $67,200 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Alberta Avenue’s median household took in $67,200 before tax, 22% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 40% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
16% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a share 84% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Most recent wave: 39% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). Residents without Canadian citizenship are more common here than in 69% of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (52%) and in Africa (24%).
Residents with no religion make up 48% in Alberta Avenue, more than in 84% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (6.5%) and Buddhist (4.5%). Visible minority residents are more common here than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
2% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 61% of Canadian towns
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
19% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 4% speak neither official language. Residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.5% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. At 7.3%, bilingual residents sit close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
In Alberta Avenue, 23% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 58% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 21%, against 9.5%. As a yardstick, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 54% of residents 15 and over had a job
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 54%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 13% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 6,011 to 6,186 people: this is the 17th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The youngest of these towns is Inkster Gardens, at 33.4; the oldest, Tay Valley, is at 57.2. The closest ages to Alberta Avenue’s belong to Richmond West (39), Southwood (39.6), Delta East (39.9) and Saint-Pie (40).
Around Alberta Avenue, 5 of 6 towns have a higher median age
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
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. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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. Each comparison is its own median: over Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
Questions about Alberta Avenue’s residents
Is Alberta Avenue bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.3% are. Another 0.2% speak only French and 88% only English, and French is the first language of 2%.
How diverse is Alberta Avenue?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 30%. A visible minority makes up 38% and Indigenous residents 14%.
What religion are people in Alberta Avenue?
Most often Christian (37%) or no religion (48%); other religions make up 15%.
Is Alberta Avenue good for families?
Children under 15 are 14% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 33% of households and one-parent families 9.9%. Schools near Alberta Avenue are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Alberta Avenue?
Median total household income in Alberta Avenue was $67,200 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Alberta Avenue?
Alberta Avenue had 6,097 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Alberta Avenue?
Half the residents are older than 39.6 and half younger, younger than 66% of Canadian towns; 14% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
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).