Photo: Kiyoteru Awaji · CC BY 4.0Above 89% of Canadian towns: 12% of residents have an Indigenous identity
By its share of households in buildings of five or more storeys (10%), Belvedere is above 79% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood counted 5,337 residents and 2,290 households at the 2021 Census. Residents who moved in within the year: 17% of the total. 28% of residents are immigrants, more than in 69% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Belvedere
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 12% of residents, more than in 89% of Canadian towns, and 5.8% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 41%, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and 18% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
51% of households rent their home, more than in 86% of Canadian towns; 54% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 40.7: Belvedere is younger than 59% of Canadian towns
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.
30–34 is the most common age band: 7.2% of residents. Among Alberta’s towns, Country Hills Village has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 36%. Residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Belvedere, 40.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women.
41% of households are one person living alone, more than in 90% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. The comparison figure for one-person households is 27% across Canada’s towns. Across Belvedere, just over one in ten households are one-parent families. Shared houses stand out: 7.8% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 91% of Canadian towns.
Belvedere ranks below 79% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 34%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Here 8.6% of residents 15 and over live common-law, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. Single and never married: 37% of adults, against a typical 27%.
51% of households rent their home, more than in 86% 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
Just over a third of households live in a single-detached house, against 64% across Canada’s towns. The benchmark for renter households across Canada’s towns: 25%. Newer homes outnumber old: 20% date from 2001 or later, 12% from before 1961.
Median household income here: $61,800 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $61,800, the middle household in Belvedere earned 28% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 36% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents without Canadian citizenship: 12%, a higher share than 73% 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 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 46% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (51%) and in Africa (26%). For residents without Canadian citizenship, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 5.8%.
36% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 74% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 35% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Belvedere comes in at 36%. By way of comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 66%, and 5.2% 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
16% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.2% speak neither official language. Bilingual residents are rarer here than in 72% of Canadian towns. On residents whose mother tongue is French, 1.7% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 71% of Canadian towns: 19%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
45% of adults were employed in May 2021
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. 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%, above this 45%; 18% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 5,242 to 5,434 people: this is the 17th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Between Chisasibi (26.6) and Electoral Area L, Cariboo (60) lies the rest of the group. By median age, Belvedere sits among Uplands (40.3), Headingley (40.4), Saint-Denis-de-Brompton (41.2) and Upper Tantallon (41.4).
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Belvedere
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belvedere | 5,337 | — | 40.7 | 18% | 28% |
| York | 4,030 | 1.2 km | 37 | 15% | 31% |
| Homesteader | 6,059 | 1.4 km | 34.1 | 12% | 34% |
| Delwood | 3,491 | 1.5 km | 44.3 | 22% | 20% |
| Balwin | 4,092 | 1.6 km | 37.1 | 13% | 32% |
| Clareview Town Centre | 3,800 | 1.9 km | 32.1 | 6.6% | 45% |
| Newton | 2,809 | 2.1 km | 41.3 | 18% | 20% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Alberta’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
Questions about Belvedere’s residents
Is Belvedere bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.2% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
How diverse is Belvedere?
28% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 36% belong to a visible minority and 12% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Belvedere?
46% are Christian and 36% have no religion; 18% follow another religion.
Is Belvedere good for families?
Under 15: 17% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 33% of households. One-parent families: 12%. Schools near Belvedere are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Belvedere?
The median household in Belvedere took in $61,800 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Belvedere?
Belvedere had 5,337 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Belvedere?
A median age of 40.7, younger than 59% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 17%, and people 65 and over 18%.
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).