Photo: TagaSanPedroAko · CC BY-SA 4.0A higher share of one-person households than 93% of Canadian towns, at 44%
Compared with 35% across Canada’s towns, 46% of residents said they have no religion here. Census day 2021: 6,697 residents and 3,255 households in Bonnie Doon. Renter households account for 47%. 13% of residents are under 15, a lower share than in 80% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Bonnie Doon
Many people living alone
44% of households are one person living alone, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 20% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 40.5: Bonnie Doon is younger than 60% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 30–34: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. The highest share aged 65 or over among Alberta’s towns is Country Hills Village’s: 36%. The census found that 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Bonnie Doon.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bonnie Doon, 40.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women.
Households here average 2 people, below 92% 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.
Shared houses stand out: 7.7% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 90% of Canadian towns. In Bonnie Doon, 6.3% of households are one-parent families.
Married residents 15 and over: 35%, a lower share than 77% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up just over a third of adults, beside a typical 27%. In Bonnie Doon, 12% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 14%, a higher share than 82% of Canadian towns
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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
With households in single-detached houses at 41%, Bonnie Doon is behind 77% of Canadian towns on that count. Older homes outnumber new: 29% predate 1961, 27% date from 2001 or later.
Median household income here: $74,400 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $74,400, the middle household in Bonnie Doon earned 13% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Alberta’s towns, the median household income is $92,200. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 28% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Above 72% of Canadian towns: 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
29% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (37%), then in Europe (34%). Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of Indigenous residents than 76% of Canadian towns: 6.2%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority; in Bonnie Doon, 18%. By way of comparison, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
11% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 76% of Canadian towns
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Bilingual residents: 21% here and 7.5% across Canada’s towns. Mother tongue: English 71%, French 11%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 45% in Bonnie Doon, more than in 79% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 7.1% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
58% of residents 15 and over were in work
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 58%, the share in work is about the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 19th of 41 towns of 6,566 to 6,835 people
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Southern Gulf Islands is the oldest at 61.6, Rhineland the youngest at 27.2. Closest in median age to Bonnie Doon are Anniedale (39.3), Industrial (39.7), Barnstown (41.5) and Canyon Meadows (42).
Bonnie Doon and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnie Doon | 6,697 | — | 40.5 | 20% | 16% |
| Ritchie | 5,215 | 1.1 km | 35.8 | 13% | 17% |
| Holyrood | 3,305 | 1.6 km | 40.8 | 18% | 15% |
| Riverdale | 5,490 | 1.6 km | 43.2 | 21% | 14% |
| Strathcona | 8,283 | 1.8 km | 35 | 14% | 19% |
| Avonmore | 2,971 | 2.1 km | 42.2 | 19% | 13% |
| King Edward Park | 8,399 | 2.2 km | 41.4 | 16% | 14% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- 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. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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.
Questions about Bonnie Doon’s residents
What religion are people in Bonnie Doon?
47% are Christian and 46% have no religion; 7.5% follow another religion.
Is Bonnie Doon good for families?
Under 15: 13% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 38% of households. One-parent families: 6.3%. Schools near Bonnie Doon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bonnie Doon?
The median household in Bonnie Doon took in $74,400 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Bonnie Doon?
Bonnie Doon had 6,697 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Bonnie Doon?
A median age of 40.5, younger than 60% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 13%, and people 65 and over 20%.
Is Bonnie Doon bilingual?
21% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.6% speak French only and 78% English only. French is the mother tongue of 11%.
How diverse is Bonnie Doon?
16% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 18% belong to a visible minority and 6.2% have an Indigenous identity.
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).