A median age of 35: Overlanders is younger than 90% of Canadian towns
Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house; in Overlanders, 28%. Census figures put one-parent families at 15% here. Just over a third of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 72% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 2,879 residents in 1,100 households.
What stands out about the people of Overlanders
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 16% of residents, more than in 94% of Canadian towns, and 5.1% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Overlanders’s residents are under 35 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 23% are under 15 and 11% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 65% of households, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, and 37% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
26% of residents lived at another address a year before the census, 2.4 times the typical share; 55% moved within five years. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
23% of residents are under 15, a share 93% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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.
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Still, the highest share aged 65 or over among Alberta’s towns is Country Hills Village’s: 36%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Overlanders, 35. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
More one-person households than 67% of Canadian towns: 31%
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The average household has 2.5 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone. Shared houses stand out: 6.8% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 85% of Canadian towns.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 78% of Canadian towns, at 35%
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 37% of adults, beside a typical 27%. The share of common-law partners stands at 11%. As a yardstick, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Renter households: 65%, a higher share than 93% 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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. For comparison, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. 9.1% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 2.7% built before 1961.
Household income, middle of the range: $73,600 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Overlanders had $73,600 before tax, 14% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $92,200, the median across Alberta’s towns. The pandemic’s benefits: 33% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Overlanders sits above 97% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (26%)
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Africa (40%), then in Asia (23%). On residents without Canadian citizenship, Overlanders sits higher than 72% of Canadian towns: 11%. By its share of immigrants (27%), Overlanders is above 68% of Canadian towns.
Above 94% of Canadian towns: 16% of residents have an Indigenous identity
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (10%). Measured more widely, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns. 37% of residents said they have no religion (Canada’s towns: 35%).
English is the mother tongue of 71%, and 6.4% 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
On residents whose mother tongue is French, 2.2% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns. At home: English 82%, French 1.1%.
A smaller share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 82% of Canadian towns: 15%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Overlanders, 15%, and 38% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 16%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
Employment: 53% of residents 15 and over had a job
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.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 53%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 11% of residents are 65 or over.
4th lowest median age among 41 towns of 2,841 to 2,916
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
McKernan is the youngest of them at 30; Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part, at 61.2, the oldest. In age, Overlanders keeps company with Paisley (31.7), Westmount (34.4), Tipaskan (35.5) and Saint-Elzéar (36.4).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Overlanders
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overlanders | 2,879 | — | 35 | 11% | 27% |
| Belmont | 5,299 | 1.1 km | 38.8 | 15% | 31% |
| Kernohan | 3,020 | 1.4 km | 40.8 | 18% | 21% |
| Beacon Heights | 4,389 | 1.6 km | 44.5 | 17% | 17% |
| Rundle Heights | 5,175 | 1.7 km | 32.9 | 10% | 30% |
| Homesteader | 6,059 | 1.9 km | 34.1 | 12% | 34% |
| Beverly Heights | 3,252 | 1.9 km | 45.5 | 22% | 17% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Alberta’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
- 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. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
Questions about Overlanders’s residents
Is Overlanders good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 23%. 40% of households are couple families and 15% one-parent families. Schools near Overlanders are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Overlanders?
$73,600 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Overlanders (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Overlanders?
The 2021 Census counted 2,879 people in Overlanders.
What is the average age in Overlanders?
35 is the median age, younger than 90% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 23%. 65 and over: 11%.
Is Overlanders bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 6.4% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 91% speak only English and 0.2% only French; 2.2% grew up with French.
How diverse is Overlanders?
Immigrants make up 27% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 34% are members of a visible minority, and 16% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Overlanders?
Christian: 50%. No religion: 37%. Another religion: 13%.
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).