Photo: AuroraTiara · CC BY-SA 4.0More one-parent families than 92% of Canadian towns: 13%
Residents with no religion: 49% here and 35% across Canada’s towns. There were 1,115 households in Delton at the 2021 Census, home to 2,657 people. 30% of the people counted locally in 2021 were immigrants, about 810. The neighbourhood has more renter households than 78% of Canadian towns, at 42%.
A smaller share of residents aged 65 and over than 73% of Canadian towns: 15%
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.
No age band is larger than 30–34: 8.1% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Half of Delton’s residents are under 40.3, younger than in 62% of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. Locally, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Delton, 40.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women.
In Delton, 34% of households are one person living alone, more than in 76% 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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-person households is 27%. Shared houses stand out: one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 97% of Canadian towns.
Below 81% of Canadian towns: 33% of residents 15 and over are married
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
38% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Across Delton, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
A smaller share of households in single-detached houses than 55% of Canadian towns: 60%
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
Older homes outnumber new: 51% predate 1961, 9.1% date from 2001 or later. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Household income, middle of the range: $72,200 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Delton’s median household took in $72,200 before tax, 16% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The median across Alberta’s towns is $92,200. COVID-19 benefits went to 38% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Delton sits above 75% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (14%)
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (56%) and in Europe (24%). The wider picture: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents without Canadian citizenship is 5.8%; Delton has 7%.
Indigenous residents make up 8.1% in Delton, more than in 83% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Buddhist (5.7%) and Muslim (3.1%). Higher than in 73% of Canadian towns: 35% of residents belong to a visible minority. Across Canada’s towns, Indigenous residents come to 2.8%.
66% have English as their mother tongue; 4.6% also speak French
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
Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1%. At home: English 78%, French 0.2%. Fewer bilingual residents than in 79% of Canadian towns: 4.6%.
Delton sits below 85% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (14%)
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
23% of those aged 25 to 64 have no formal credential, where the typical town has 9.5%.
A job for 48% of residents aged 15 and over
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 48% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 15% of residents are 65 or over.
Ranked by age, 13th youngest of 41 towns this size
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Median ages here range from 31 in La Ronge to 67.7 in Brockville. Nearest to Delton in age: Tumbler Ridge (39.6), Boothill (40), East River, Part 1 (41.2) and Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton (41.2).
Delton sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
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
- 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. 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. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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 Delton’s residents
What religion are people in Delton?
Christian: 39%. No religion: 49%. Another religion: 12%.
Is Delton good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 34% of households are couple families and 13% one-parent families. Schools near Delton are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Delton?
$72,200 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Delton (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Delton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,657 people in Delton.
What is the average age in Delton?
40.3 is the median age, younger than 62% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 15%.
Is Delton bilingual?
English and French: 4.6% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 91%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 1%.
How diverse is Delton?
Immigrants make up 30% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 35% are members of a visible minority, and 8.1% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
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).