A higher share of Indigenous residents than 90% of Canadian towns, at 12%
The figure for one-parent families is 11% in Beacon Heights and 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Higher than in 72% of Canadian towns: 79% of households live in a single-detached house. At the 2021 Census, 4,389 people lived in the neighbourhood, in 1,795 households. The census found that 17% of residents are 65 or over locally.
What stands out about the people of Beacon Heights
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 12% of residents, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and 2.4% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Beacon Heights is older than 65% of Canadian towns: a median age of 44.5
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. At 15%, the share of children under 15 is lower than in two thirds of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Beacon Heights, 44.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women.
Bigger households than 51% of Canadian towns: 2.4 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Shared houses stand out: 8.5% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 93% of Canadian towns. For Beacon Heights, the census puts one-person households at 27%.
Beacon Heights ranks below 71% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 38%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up just over a third of adults, beside a typical 27%. Common-law partners: just over a tenth of the total. Set beside that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Beacon Heights sits below 58% of Canadian towns for renter households (22%)
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. The share of renter households across Canada’s towns is 25%. 42% of homes were built before 1961 and 3.7% in 2001 or later.
The median household brings in $85,800 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Beacon Heights’s median household took in $85,800 before tax, about the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. The pandemic’s benefits: 33% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 9.7% in Beacon Heights, less than in 63% 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 (35%) or in Europe (24%). The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. 29% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
Beacon Heights sits above 78% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (45%)
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%; Beacon Heights has 19%. Elsewhere, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (5.2%).
English is the mother tongue of 76%, and 4.4% 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
At home: English 86%, French 0.2%. Fewer bilingual residents than in 82% of Canadian towns: 4.4%. Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 1.5%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Beacon Heights ranks below 96% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 10%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 19%, beside a typical 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 52%
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 52%, fewer residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns, and 17% are 65 or over.
Of 41 towns its size (4,308 to 4,469 people), the 15th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 31.9 in Glenridding Heights to 58.8 in Highlands East. The closest ages to Beacon Heights’s belong to New Maryland (43.6), Montague (44.4), Oka (46.4) and Minnetonka (46.9).
Older than Beacon Heights: 1 of the 6 towns nearby
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Heights | 4,389 | — | 44.5 | 17% | 17% |
| Beverly Heights | 3,252 | 0.6 km | 45.5 | 22% | 17% |
| Newton | 2,809 | 1.0 km | 41.3 | 18% | 20% |
| Rundle Heights | 5,175 | 1.4 km | 32.9 | 10% | 30% |
| Overlanders | 2,879 | 1.6 km | 35 | 11% | 27% |
| Homesteader | 6,059 | 2.0 km | 34.1 | 12% | 34% |
| Highlands | 2,677 | 2.0 km | 44 | 21% | 12% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
Questions about Beacon Heights’s residents
What is the population of Beacon Heights?
Beacon Heights had 4,389 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Beacon Heights?
Half the residents are older than 44.5 and half younger, older than 65% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 17% are 65 or over.
Is Beacon Heights bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4.4% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 1.5%.
How diverse is Beacon Heights?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 17%. A visible minority makes up 19% and Indigenous residents 12%.
What religion are people in Beacon Heights?
Most often Christian (46%) or no religion (45%); other religions make up 8.9%.
Is Beacon Heights good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 43% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Beacon Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Beacon Heights?
Median total household income in Beacon Heights was $85,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
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).