Photo: Johntwrl at English Wikipedia · Public domainLaurier Heights ranks above 87% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 27%
Where 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns, Laurier Heights has 6.9%. Census figures put households in single-detached houses at 89% locally. With a median age of 48.6, Laurier Heights is older than just over four fifths of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 3,048 people lived here, in 1,190 households.
What stands out about the people of Laurier Heights
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 64% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 96% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 14%. Qualifications ↓
Many older residents
27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Canadian towns; 13% are 80 or over, and 27% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Below 61% of Canadian towns: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
85+ is the most common age band: 9.7% of residents, 4.9 times the share across Canada’s towns. On average, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Laurier Heights, 48.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Bigger households than 53% of Canadian towns: 2.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
6.3% of households are one-parent families; across Canada’s towns the figure is 8.2%. One-person households: 27% of the total.
In Laurier Heights, 6.5% of residents 15 and over live common-law, fewer than in 83% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
21% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Across Canada’s towns, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
In Laurier Heights, 17% of households rent their home, fewer than in 69% 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
Older homes outnumber new: 43% predate 1961, 3.3% date from 2001 or later. Typically, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. 2.9% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 68% of Canadian towns.
A median household income of $162,500 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Laurier Heights had $162,500 before tax, 89% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Alberta’s towns, the household in the middle had $92,200. The pandemic’s benefits: 18% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
12% of residents are immigrants
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (38%) and in Asia (29%). A year before the census, 6.9% lived somewhere else: fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. On top of that, 0.3% of residents are not Canadian citizens (Canada’s towns: 5.8%).
Laurier Heights sits above 64% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (40%)
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 10% in Laurier Heights. Across Canada’s towns, residents with no religion come to 35%. Here, 2.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Laurier Heights sits above 69% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (14%)
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
1.7% of residents have French as their mother tongue. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 96% of Canadian towns: 64%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 0.7% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Against that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
58% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
Employment here, 58%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
15th highest median age among 41 towns of 3,002 to 3,094
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest of these towns is Albany, at 29.9; the oldest, Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part, is at 56.8. The towns whose median age is nearest to Laurier Heights’s: Electoral Area D, Cariboo (47.2), Riverside Park South - Revelstoke (47.4), Vanscoy No. 345 (49.2) and Lac-des-Écorces (50).
The towns around Laurier Heights are all younger
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurier Heights | 3,048 | — | 48.6 | 27% | 12% |
| Lynnwood | 3,452 | 1.3 km | 39 | 16% | 21% |
| Jasper Park | 3,219 | 1.3 km | 39.5 | 14% | 29% |
| Parkview | 5,729 | 1.4 km | 43.8 | 20% | 15% |
| Meadowlark Park | 2,671 | 1.9 km | 47.1 | 24% | 24% |
| Patricia Heights | 4,355 | 1.9 km | 41.8 | 18% | 17% |
| Elmwood | 2,522 | 2.3 km | 37.5 | 16% | 25% |
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. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
Questions about Laurier Heights’s residents
Is Laurier Heights bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 14% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 85% speak only English and 0% only French; 1.7% grew up with French.
How diverse is Laurier Heights?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 12%. A visible minority makes up 10% and Indigenous residents 2.4%.
What religion are people in Laurier Heights?
Most often Christian (54%) or no religion (40%); other religions make up 6.1%.
Is Laurier Heights good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 62% of households and one-parent families 6.3%. Schools near Laurier Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Laurier Heights?
Median total household income in Laurier Heights was $162,500 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Laurier Heights?
3,048, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Laurier Heights alone.
What is the average age in Laurier Heights?
Half the residents are older than 48.6 and half younger, older than 82% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 27% 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).