Half of Caernarvon is under 36.4, younger than 85% of Canadian towns
Against a figure of 15% across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents in Caernarvon comes in at 50%. Census day 2021: 5,972 residents and 2,250 households locally. One-parent families: 13% of the total. 36% of residents are immigrants, a higher share than in 80% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Caernarvon
Younger than most towns
Half of Caernarvon’s residents are under 36.4 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 22% are under 15 and 16% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of children under 15 than 90% of Canadian towns, at 22%
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Where 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, Caernarvon has 16%. The largest age band is 35–39: 8% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Caernarvon, 36.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women.
Bigger households than 67% of Canadian towns: 2.6 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.
The census found that 28% of households are one person living alone in Caernarvon.
Married residents 15 and over make up 41% in Caernarvon, less than in 65% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 33% of adults (typical: 27%). For comparison, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: a tenth of the total.
Caernarvon sits below 78% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (40%)
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. The usual figure: 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. 37% of households rent their home.
Median household income: $82,300 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Caernarvon’s households had a total income above $82,300 and half below, close to the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Alberta’s towns the median is $92,200. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 35% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Caernarvon ranks above 81% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 15%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 45%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Most immigrants were born in Asia (56%) or in Africa (22%). Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%. Residents without Canadian citizenship are more common here than in 70% of Canadian towns. Of the immigrants living here, 42% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
Indigenous residents make up 7.6% in Caernarvon, more than in 81% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Here 33% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 35%. Set beside that, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (23%).
English is the mother tongue of 62%, and 5.3% speak French as well
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
7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns, against 5.3% in Caernarvon. At home: English 75%, French 0.6%.
In Caernarvon, 24% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 57% of Canadian towns
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: 13%, beside a typical 9.5%. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 53% of adults
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
53% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 16% are 65 or more.
41 towns of 5,862 to 6,093 people: this is the 5th youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
University is the youngest of them at 31.1; Nutana Urban Centre, at 62, the oldest. Closest in median age to Caernarvon are Homesteader (34.1), Broadway-Assiniboine (35.3), Pleasant Hill (36.5) and Worthington (36.9).
5 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Caernarvon
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
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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. 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. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Caernarvon’s residents
Is Caernarvon good for families?
Under 15: 22% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 46% of households. One-parent families: 13%. Schools near Caernarvon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Caernarvon?
The median household in Caernarvon took in $82,300 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Caernarvon?
Caernarvon had 5,972 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Caernarvon?
A median age of 36.4, younger than 85% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 22%, and people 65 and over 16%.
Is Caernarvon bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.3% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
How diverse is Caernarvon?
36% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 50% belong to a visible minority and 7.6% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Caernarvon?
38% are Christian and 33% have no religion; 29% follow another religion.
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).