Photo: Rowanswiki · CC BY-SA 4.05.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 97% of Canadian towns
Immigrants make up 32%, against 17% across Canada’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 3,349 people lived in Northmount, in 1,160 households. In Northmount, 6.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity. With a median age of 45.4, Northmount is older than 70% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Northmount
Many older residents
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 88% of Canadian towns; 11% are 80 or over, and 28% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Above 88% of Canadian towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 85+: 6.7% of residents, 3.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. As a reference point, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. On the census count, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Northmount, 45.4. 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 73% of Canadian towns: 2.7 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.
The share of one-parent families tops 74% of Canadian towns: 9.9%. One-person households account for 28%.
6.1% of residents 15 and over live common-law, fewer than in 85% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: 29% of adults, against a typical 27%. As a reference point, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Households in single-detached houses: 68%, a higher share than 57% of Canadian towns
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%. 4.5% of homes were built before 1961 and 1.2% in 2001 or later. In Northmount, 27% of households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns.
Median gross household income: $87,500 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes sit at the middle in Northmount: half had more than $87,500, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $92,200, the median across Alberta’s towns. Pandemic benefits reached 32% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 7% in Northmount, more than in 56% of Canadian towns
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 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 24% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. As a reference point, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (46%) and in Europe (39%).
Above 73% of Canadian towns: 35% of residents belong to a visible minority
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (16%). The comparison figure for visible minority residents is 15% across Canada’s towns. The share of residents with no religion is 32%, against 35% across Canada’s towns.
57% have English as their mother tongue; 3.9% also speak French
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
23% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 4.5% speak neither official language. Bilingual residents are rarer here than in 87% of Canadian towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 0.6%.
Below 82% of Canadian towns: 15% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 22% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 44% of residents 15 and over had a job
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
44% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 28% are 65 or more.
Ranked by age, 19th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
They run from Arviat, at 21.8, to North Kawartha, at 59.2. The closest ages to Northmount’s belong to Saint-Jean-Baptiste (44), Coach Hill (44.7), Kensington, Part 1 (45.6) and Division No. 19, Unorganized (45.6).
The towns around Northmount are all younger
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Northmount’s residents
What religion are people in Northmount?
Most often Christian (46%) or no religion (32%); other religions make up 21%.
Is Northmount good for families?
Children under 15 are 16% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 47% of households and one-parent families 9.9%. Schools near Northmount are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Northmount?
Median total household income in Northmount was $87,500 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Northmount?
3,349, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Northmount alone.
What is the average age in Northmount?
Half the residents are older than 45.4 and half younger, older than 70% of Canadian towns; 16% are children under 15 and 28% are 65 or over.
Is Northmount bilingual?
3.9% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 92% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.6%.
How diverse is Northmount?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 32%. A visible minority makes up 35% and Indigenous residents 6.4%.
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).