Photo: WinterE229 (WinterforceMedia) · CC073% of households rent their home, a share 97% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants is 17%; McCauley has 39%. Children under 15 are rarer here than in 95% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 4,060 residents in 2,060 households. In McCauley, 8.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
What stands out about the people of McCauley
A neighbourhood of renters
73% of households rent their home, more than in 97% of Canadian towns; 71% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
57% of households are one person living alone, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 20% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
McCauley is older than 78% of Canadian towns: a median age of 47.5
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 9% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Locally, 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Among Alberta’s towns, Country Hills Village has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 36%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ McCauley, 47.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
44% women, 56% men
About 79 women for every 100 men.
A higher share of one-person households than 99% of Canadian towns, at 57%
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Shared houses stand out: 8.7% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 93% of Canadian towns. By way of comparison, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. The average household has 1.8 people. Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families is 8.2%; McCauley has 6.5%.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 97% of Canadian towns: 23%
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 47% of adults, beside a typical 27%. McCauley has fewer common-law partners than 78% of Canadian towns, at 7.2%. The usual figure: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Below 86% of Canadian towns: 26% of households live in a single-detached house
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
Just over one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. As a yardstick, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 8.3% of the total.
The middle household earns $43,100 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run lower in McCauley: half had less than $43,100, 50% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $92,200 is the median household income across Alberta’s towns. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 41% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
McCauley ranks above 89% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 18%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 50%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (56%), then in Africa (21%). 15% of residents are not Canadian citizens, a higher share than in 83% of Canadian towns. Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Of the immigrants living here, 25% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
Above 84% of Canadian towns: 48% of residents belong to a visible minority
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 39%, above 61% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Buddhist (7.9%) and Muslim (5.4%).
1.6% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 52% 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
At home: English 70%, French 0.9%. Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 1.5% across Canada’s towns. 6.4% of residents speak English and French; across Canada’s towns the figure is 7.5%.
Below 67% of Canadian towns: 20% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 24% have 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.
41% of residents 15 and over were in work
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 41% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 20% of residents are 65 or over.
Of 41 towns its size (4,002 to 4,125 people), the 12th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 29 in Mistissini to 59.2 in Okanagan Falls. Elbow Park (46.5), Beaumaris (47.5), Kentley (48.4) and Haut-Madawaska (49.6): the towns nearest McCauley in median age.
No nearby town is as old as McCauley
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCauley | 4,060 | — | 47.5 | 20% | 39% |
| Boyle Street | 5,862 | 0.7 km | 40.7 | 19% | 35% |
| Central McDougall | 4,802 | 1.2 km | 34.7 | 8.4% | 41% |
| Alberta Avenue | 6,097 | 1.6 km | 39.6 | 13% | 30% |
| Parkdale | 4,029 | 1.6 km | 40.6 | 13% | 35% |
| Virginia Park | 3,431 | 1.8 km | 43.8 | 19% | 22% |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 2.1 km | 33.8 | 12% | 25% |
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. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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. 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 McCauley’s residents
What is the median income in McCauley?
Half of McCauley’s households had more than $43,100 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of McCauley?
McCauley had 4,060 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in McCauley?
The median age is 47.5, older than 78% of Canadian towns. 10% are under 15 and 20% 65 or older.
Is McCauley bilingual?
6.4% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.3% speak French only and 86% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1.6%.
How diverse is McCauley?
Immigrants: 39% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 48%. Indigenous identity: 8.6%.
What religion are people in McCauley?
39% said they have no religion and 43% that they are Christian; 19% named another faith.
Is McCauley good for families?
10% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 21% of households and one-parent families 6.5%. Schools near McCauley 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).