Fewer households in single-detached houses than 83% of Canadian towns: 32%
Immigrants make up 33%, against 17% across Canada’s towns. Census day 2021: 5,473 residents and 2,210 households in Hillview. For Hillview, the census puts one-parent families at 11%. Higher than in 77% of Canadian towns: 40% of residents belong to a visible minority.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 66% of Canadian towns, at 21%
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
The median age in Hillview is 42.7, higher than in 54% of Canadian towns. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 11%. On children under 15, 16% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Hillview, 42.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women.
Above 63% of Canadian towns: 30% of households are one person living alone
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Hillview the average household is 2.4 people, beside 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Measured more widely, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners make up 6.4% in Hillview, less than in 84% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
31% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%. On the census count, 45% of residents 15 and over are married.
Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 9.5%, a higher share than 79% 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
Just over one in ten homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 0.9% built before 1961. At 33%, the share of renter households is higher than in nearly two thirds of Canadian towns.
$77,700 a year is the median household income here
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Hillview’s, at $77,700, is 10% lower. Among Alberta’s towns, the typical figure is $92,200. Pandemic benefits reached 33% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
A larger share of residents without Canadian citizenship than 77% of Canadian towns: 13%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Recent arrivals are a third of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents without Canadian citizenship is 5.8%. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (48%), then in the Americas (21%). A year before the census, 11% lived somewhere else: fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns.
5.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity, more than in 72% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 30%, below nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. For Indigenous residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 2.8%. Among other religions: Muslim (8.2%), Sikh (4.7%) and Hindu (2.6%).
1.7% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 55% of Canadian towns
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
18% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.4% speak neither official language. To put it in context, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 61% of Canadian towns: 6.2% of residents speak English and French.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 52% of Canadian towns: 26%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 11%, against 9.5%. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 52% of residents 15 and over had a job
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.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 52%; 21% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 5,368 to 5,568 people: this is the 18th youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Inverness County, Subdivision A is the oldest at 56.4, Chisasibi the youngest at 26.6. Nearest to Hillview in age: Garner (42), Burton (42), Riverdale (43.2) and Cookshire-Eaton (43.2).
No nearby town is as old as Hillview
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. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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.
Questions about Hillview’s residents
What is the average age in Hillview?
42.7 is the median age, older than 54% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 21%.
Is Hillview bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.2% are. Another 0% speak only French and 92% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
How diverse is Hillview?
Immigrants make up 33% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 40% are members of a visible minority, and 5.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Hillview?
Christian: 52%. No religion: 30%. Another religion: 18%.
Is Hillview good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 47% of households are couple families and 11% one-parent families. Schools near Hillview are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Hillview?
$77,700 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Hillview (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Hillview?
Hillview had 5,473 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).