Indigenous residents: 8.5%, a higher share than 84% of Canadian towns
Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 19%; Kensington has 26%. The 2021 Census counted 3,697 residents in 1,445 households. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 14%. Half of the neighbourhood’s residents are over 47, older than in 76% of Canadian towns.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 66% of Canadian towns: 9.9%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Just over a quarter of Kensington is 65 or over, against 15% across Alberta’s towns and 19% across Canada’s towns. The largest age band is 85+: one in ten residents, 5 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Kensington, 47. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Kensington ranks above 73% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 33%
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
With one-parent families at 9.7%, Kensington is ahead of 72% of Canadian towns on that count. The comparison figure for one-person households is 27% across Canada’s towns. Each household has 2.4 people on average.
Married residents 15 and over: 39%, a lower share than 70% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Here nearly one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. 29% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%.
Kensington ranks above 52% of Canadian towns on households in single-detached houses: 65%
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
Older homes outnumber new: 35% predate 1961, 4.1% date from 2001 or later. Elsewhere, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Renter households make up 25%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Half above, half below $82,600 a year in household income
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
At $82,600, the middle household in Kensington earned close to the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Alberta’s towns, the household in the middle had $92,200. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 30% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
A higher share of immigrants than 60% of Canadian towns, at 23%
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 30%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
With residents without Canadian citizenship at 8.7%, Kensington is ahead of 63% of Canadian towns on that count. As a reference point, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (54%) or in Europe (24%).
Kensington ranks above 63% of Canadian towns on visible minority residents: 27%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns, Kensington has 33%. As a yardstick, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (12%).
1.7% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 55% of Canadian towns
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
At home: English 85%, French 0.1%. Bilingual residents are rarer here than in 86% of Canadian towns. The benchmark for residents whose mother tongue is French across Canada’s towns: 1.5%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 75% of Canadian towns: 17%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Kensington, 17%, and 31% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%).
An employment rate of 47%
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 47%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 26% of residents are 65 or over.
Ranked by age, 12th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The span goes from 31.5 (West Kildonan Industrial) up to 58 (Piedmont). In age, Kensington keeps company with Golf Course (46.5), Electoral Area C, Nanaimo (46.8), Killarney (47.2) and Studholm (47.2).
Every neighbour of Kensington has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 3,697 | — | 47 | 26% | 23% |
| Calder | 4,221 | 0.7 km | 39.1 | 14% | 27% |
| Carlisle | 4,609 | 1.0 km | 36.3 | 14% | 35% |
| Wellington | 3,314 | 1.5 km | 36.5 | 14% | 22% |
| Hudson | 3,634 | 1.7 km | 36.8 | 11% | 45% |
| Athlone | 3,242 | 1.7 km | 40 | 14% | 34% |
| Lauderdale | 2,954 | 1.8 km | 37.4 | 13% | 31% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as 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.
Questions about Kensington’s residents
What is the median income in Kensington?
$82,600 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Kensington (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Kensington?
3,697, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Kensington alone.
What is the average age in Kensington?
47 is the median age, older than 76% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 15%. 65 and over: 26%.
Is Kensington bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.7%.
How diverse is Kensington?
Immigrants make up 23% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 27% are members of a visible minority, and 8.5% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Kensington?
Christian: 51%. No religion: 33%. Another religion: 17%.
Is Kensington good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 15%. 42% of households are couple families and 9.7% one-parent families. Schools near Kensington are on its Schools page.
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).