In Kildare, 29% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 91% of Canadian towns
One-parent families: 14%, above 97% of Canadian towns. There were 1,110 households in Kildare at the 2021 Census, home to 2,833 people. The census found that one in ten residents have an Indigenous identity locally. Few places have as many residents who moved in within the year: 17% here, more than in 88% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Kildare
Many older residents
29% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 13% are 80 or over, and 32% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 44.7: Kildare is older than 65% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. 85+ is the most common age band: 7.4% of residents, 3.7 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Kildare, 44.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households: 32%, a higher share than 70% of Canadian towns
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.
Households in Kildare hold 2.4 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4). Across Canada’s towns, one-person households come to 27%.
37% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 73% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 29% of adults, beside a typical 27%. The wider picture: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: nearly a tenth of the total.
48% of households live in a single-detached house, fewer than in 71% of Canadian towns
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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
3.5% of homes were built before 1961 and 0.9% in 2001 or later. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%. Compared with other places, renter households are common here: 34%, more than in nearly two thirds of Canadian towns.
The midpoint household income is $70,900 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Kildare’s, at $70,900, is 18% lower. Among Alberta’s towns, the typical figure is $92,200. Pandemic benefits reached 32% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Above 60% of Canadian towns: 22% of residents are immigrants
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
Of the immigrants living here, 36% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Typically, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (41%) or in Europe (21%).
Kildare sits above 66% of Canadian towns for visible minority residents (29%)
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (2.9%). As a yardstick, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Against a figure of 35% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Kildare comes in at 37%.
Kildare: 2.8% of residents have French as their mother tongue, above 67% of Canadian towns
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Set against 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 5.6% of residents speak English and French in Kildare. Elsewhere, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns. At home: English 83%, French 0.6%.
A lower share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 83% of Canadian towns, at 15%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
A job for 44% of residents aged 15 and over
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 44%; 29% of residents are 65 or over.
18th lowest median age among 41 towns of 2,796 to 2,872
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Westmount is the youngest of them at 34.4; Saint-Michel-des-Saints, at 58.8, the oldest. By median age, Kildare sits among Westcliffe East (43.4), Saint-Prime (43.6), Yamachiche (44.8) and Lacolle (45.6).
Of the 6 towns nearest Kildare, 1 are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- 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.
- 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. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
Questions about Kildare’s residents
Is Kildare good for families?
Under 15: 16% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 40% of households. One-parent families: 14%. Schools near Kildare are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kildare?
The median household in Kildare took in $70,900 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Kildare?
Kildare had 2,833 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Kildare?
A median age of 44.7, older than 65% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 16%, and people 65 and over 29%.
Is Kildare bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.6% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 93% speak only English and 0% only French; 2.8% grew up with French.
How diverse is Kildare?
22% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 29% belong to a visible minority and 9.9% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Kildare?
54% are Christian and 37% have no religion; 9.2% follow another religion.
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).