Photo: Johntwrl · Public domainA median age of 47.1: Meadowlark Park is older than 76% of Canadian towns
Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Census day 2021: 2,671 residents and 1,180 households in Meadowlark Park. Indigenous residents account for 6.3%. More one-person households than in 78% of Canadian towns: 35%.
Meadowlark Park sits below 82% of Canadian towns for children under 15 (13%)
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with 8% of residents. Across the comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Meadowlark Park, 47.1. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Meadowlark Park households average 2.3 people, smaller than in 69% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families account for 8.5%.
In Meadowlark Park, 7.5% of residents 15 and over live common-law, fewer than in 77% 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
28% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. In Meadowlark Park, 44% of residents 15 and over are married. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
Fewer renter households than 71% of Canadian towns: 16%
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
The figure for households in single-detached houses is 76% in Meadowlark Park and 64% across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. The comparison figure for renter households is 25% across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 40% predate 1961, 12% date from 2001 or later.
The middle household earns $91,700 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Meadowlark Park’s, at $91,700, is 7% higher. The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 28% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
In Meadowlark Park, 8.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 77% of Canadian towns
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 11%, against 5.8% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 24% of residents are immigrants.
42% of residents said they have no religion, a share 71% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority; in Meadowlark Park, 26%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%.
English is the mother tongue of 75%, and 5.5% speak French as well
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
Against a figure of 7.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents in Meadowlark Park comes in at 5.5%. At home, 11% mostly speak another language; 1.3% speak neither English nor French. Compared with other places, residents whose mother tongue is French are scarce here: 1.1%, fewer than in two thirds of Canadian towns.
Meadowlark Park ranks above 57% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 31%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 8.1%, against 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 50% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 24% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 50% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 11th of 41 towns of 2,631 to 2,708 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Brockville is the oldest at 67.7, La Ronge the youngest at 31. In age, Meadowlark Park keeps company with Saint George (46.8), Saint-Chrysostome (46.8), Sundre (47.6) and Spaniard's Bay (48).
No nearby town is as old as Meadowlark Park
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlark Park | 2,671 | — | 47.1 | 24% | 24% |
| Lynnwood | 3,452 | 0.7 km | 39 | 16% | 21% |
| Jasper Park | 3,219 | 0.9 km | 39.5 | 14% | 29% |
| Elmwood | 2,522 | 1.3 km | 37.5 | 16% | 25% |
| Glenwood | 4,842 | 1.3 km | 44.4 | 23% | 36% |
| West Meadowlark Park | 5,386 | 1.4 km | 44.6 | 24% | 37% |
| West Jasper Place | 3,427 | 1.5 km | 40 | 14% | 33% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about Meadowlark Park’s residents
What is the median income in Meadowlark Park?
$91,700 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Meadowlark Park (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Meadowlark Park?
2,671, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Meadowlark Park alone.
What is the average age in Meadowlark Park?
47.1 is the median age, older than 76% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 13%. 65 and over: 24%.
Is Meadowlark Park bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.5% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.1%.
How diverse is Meadowlark Park?
Immigrants make up 24% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 26% are members of a visible minority, and 6.3% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Meadowlark Park?
Christian: 53%. No religion: 42%. Another religion: 5%.
Is Meadowlark Park good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 13%. 44% of households are couple families and 8.5% one-parent families. Schools near Meadowlark Park 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).