One-person households: 15%, a lower share than 90% of Canadian towns
Immigrants: 31% here and 17% across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 87% of Canadian towns. Crawford Plains had 3,075 residents in 1,045 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 44% of residents belong to a visible minority.
Crawford Plains is younger than 74% of Canadian towns: a median age of 38.4
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Canada’s towns, 16% of residents are under 15; in Crawford Plains, 19%. No age band is larger than 35–39: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Crawford Plains, 38.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
2.9 people per household, more than in 88% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families make up 11%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Crawford Plains: 49% of residents 15 and over are married, above 58% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The figure for common-law partners is 9.4% in Crawford Plains and 11% across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
More households in single-detached houses than 64% of Canadian towns: 74%
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
A quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns, against 23% in Crawford Plains.
Household income, middle of the range: $101,300 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $101,300, the middle household in Crawford Plains out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 18%. The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 36% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Crawford Plains ranks above 79% of Canadian towns on residents without Canadian citizenship: 14%
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 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (68%), then in Africa (11%). By way of comparison, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. 38% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
Indigenous residents make up 5.2% in Crawford Plains, more than in 71% of Canadian towns
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Sikh (14%), Muslim (4.7%) and Hindu (4.4%). Across Canada’s towns, Indigenous residents come to 2.8%. In Crawford Plains, 34% of residents said they have no religion, beside 35% across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 67%, and 4.9% 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
Against a figure of 7.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents in Crawford Plains comes in at 4.9%. At home, 17% mostly speak another language; 2.6% speak neither English nor French.
Crawford Plains ranks below 64% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 21%
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 12% here, 9.5% in the typical town. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 61% of residents 15 and over had a job
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.
At 61%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 3,029 to 3,127 people: this is the 13th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages here range from 25.6 in La Loche to 59.6 in Trois-Pistoles. The closest ages to Crawford Plains’s belong to Elkford (38.4), Saint-Liboire (38.4), Houston (38.8) and Nutana Park (39.4).
2 of the 6 nearest towns are older than Crawford Plains
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | — | 38.4 | 12% | 31% |
| Daly Grove | 3,486 | 0.9 km | 37.5 | 13% | 30% |
| Pollard Meadows | 4,361 | 1.2 km | 35.9 | 13% | 40% |
| Laurel | 15,263 | 1.4 km | 31.2 | 5.8% | 61% |
| Sakaw | 3,453 | 1.6 km | 39.3 | 19% | 32% |
| Meyokumin | 4,069 | 1.7 km | 42.4 | 24% | 32% |
| Bisset | 3,049 | 1.8 km | 35.8 | 13% | 37% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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. 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. 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 Crawford Plains’s residents
What is the average age in Crawford Plains?
Half the residents are older than 38.4 and half younger, younger than 74% of Canadian towns; 19% are children under 15 and 12% are 65 or over.
Is Crawford Plains bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4.9% are. Another 0.2% speak only French and 92% only English, and French is the first language of 1.3%.
How diverse is Crawford Plains?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 31%. A visible minority makes up 44% and Indigenous residents 5.2%.
What religion are people in Crawford Plains?
Most often Christian (42%) or no religion (34%); other religions make up 24%.
Is Crawford Plains good for families?
Children under 15 are 19% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 54% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Crawford Plains are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Crawford Plains?
Median total household income in Crawford Plains was $101,300 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Crawford Plains?
Crawford Plains had 3,075 residents at the 2021 Census.
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).