Younger than 95% of Canadian towns: half of Callaghan is under 33.3
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 53% in Callaghan. The neighbourhood counted 4,180 residents and 1,600 households at the 2021 Census. The census found that 17% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in the neighbourhood. Few places have so few households in single-detached houses: 30% here, fewer than in 84% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Callaghan
Younger than most towns
Callaghan’s median age is 33.3; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 20% are under 15 and 7.1% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Callaghan ranks below 97% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 7.1%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Where 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns, Callaghan has 20%. Typically, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Callaghan, 33.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Callaghan households average 2.6 people, larger than in 70% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Set against 27% across Canada’s towns, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone in Callaghan. For Callaghan, the census puts one-parent families at 8.5%.
Married residents 15 and over: 49%, a higher share than 59% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 30% of adults (typical: 27%). Against that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 11% of the total.
A higher share of renter households than 82% of Canadian towns, at 46%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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
98% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 1% built before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%.
Median household income: $99,500 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Callaghan had $99,500 before tax, 16% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. Pandemic benefits reached 38% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
More immigrants than 82% of Canadian towns: 38%
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (65%), then in Africa (16%). Against that, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. 15% of residents are not Canadian citizens, more than in 82% of Canadian towns.
Callaghan ranks above 64% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 40%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, against 4.6% in Callaghan. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%. Other faiths: Muslim (6.5%), Hindu (6.5%), Sikh (3%) and Buddhist (2%).
English is the mother tongue of 57%, and 6.7% speak French as well
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
22% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2% speak neither official language. Little separates the share of residents whose mother tongue is French here, 1.7%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Callaghan ranks above 83% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 49%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 4.9% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
64% 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. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 64%.
41 towns of 4,108 to 4,254 people: this is the 2nd youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
At one end is Banff Trail (31.7), at the other Barry's Bay (58.4). Next to Callaghan on this scale come Banff Trail (31.7), Fraipont (33.6) and Sunalta (34.8).
Callaghan and its 6 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Callaghan’s residents
What religion are people in Callaghan?
40% said they have no religion and 41% that they are Christian; 20% named another faith.
Is Callaghan good for families?
20% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 55% of households and one-parent families 8.5%. Schools near Callaghan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Callaghan?
Half of Callaghan’s households had more than $99,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Callaghan?
Callaghan had 4,180 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Callaghan?
The median age is 33.3, younger than 95% of Canadian towns. 20% are under 15 and 7.1% 65 or older.
Is Callaghan bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.7% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
How diverse is Callaghan?
Immigrants: 38% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 53%. Indigenous identity: 4.6%.
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).