6.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 95% of Canadian towns
Here 44% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 35%. Few places have as many households in single-detached houses: 89% here, more than in 87% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 3,710 residents in 1,425 households. One-person households account for 23%.
What stands out about the people of Greenfield
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 57% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 10%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Greenfield is older than 63% of Canadian towns: a median age of 44.3
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 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns, Greenfield has 17%. On the census count, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Greenfield, 44.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Larger households than 64% of Canadian towns: 2.6 people on average
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families account for 8.7%.
Common-law partners: 7%, a lower share than 80% 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 a quarter of adults, beside a typical 27%. At 56%, the share of married residents 15 and over is higher than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Renter households: 18%, a lower share than 68% 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
Nearly one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Typically, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
$124,300 a year is the median household income here
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Greenfield’s households had a total income above $124,300, 45% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. 23% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
A higher share of immigrants than 57% of Canadian towns, at 21%
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (52%), then in Europe (33%). The comparison figure for immigrants is 17% across Canada’s towns. In Greenfield, 7.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens, beside 5.8% across Canada’s towns.
Visible minority residents make up 20% in Greenfield, more than in 55% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
In Greenfield, 2.5% of residents have an Indigenous identity. On average, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of bilingual residents than 66% of Canadian towns: 13%
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
At home: English 88%, French 0.3%. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1.5%.
A higher share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 92% of Canadian towns, at 57%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 2.7% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 58% of adults
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
58% of residents 15 and over have a job, in line with the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
In its size band (3,653 to 3,767), the 19th youngest of 41 towns
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest of these towns is West Kildonan Industrial, at 31.5; the oldest, Piedmont, is at 58. The towns whose median age is nearest to Greenfield’s: Deer Lodge (43), Eau Claire (44.1), Saint-Sulpice (44.4) and Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George (44.4).
Greenfield is older than every town around it
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | 3,710 | — | 44.3 | 21% | 21% |
| Sweet Grass | 2,616 | 0.5 km | 38.7 | 17% | 33% |
| Royal Gardens | 3,392 | 1.1 km | 35.2 | 13% | 33% |
| Blue Quill | 4,567 | 1.1 km | 33.5 | 11% | 38% |
| Duggan | 6,247 | 1.2 km | 39.4 | 20% | 32% |
| Westbrook Estates | 2,838 | 1.6 km | 43.2 | 21% | 22% |
| Ermineskin | 7,483 | 1.8 km | 41.4 | 24% | 36% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
- 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.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Alberta’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
Questions about Greenfield’s residents
Is Greenfield bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 13% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 86% speak only English and 0% only French; 1.5% grew up with French.
How diverse is Greenfield?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 21%. A visible minority makes up 20% and Indigenous residents 2.5%.
What religion are people in Greenfield?
Most often Christian (52%) or no religion (44%); other religions make up 3.8%.
Is Greenfield good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 61% of households and one-parent families 8.7%. Schools near Greenfield are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Greenfield?
Median total household income in Greenfield was $124,300 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Greenfield?
The 2021 Census counted 3,710 people in Greenfield.
What is the average age in Greenfield?
Half the residents are older than 44.3 and half younger, older than 63% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 21% are 65 or over.
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).