Photo: Robert Blyth · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Rundle Heights is under 32.9, younger than 96% of Canadian towns
56% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census put Rundle Heights’s population at 5,175, in 1,970 households. The share of households in single-detached houses stands at 24%. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are common here: 18%, more than in 89% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Rundle Heights
Younger than most towns
Line Rundle Heights’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 32.9; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 27% are under 15 and 10% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 59% of households, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and 30% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Rundle Heights sits above 99% of Canadian towns for children under 15 (27%)
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Against a figure of 11% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Rundle Heights comes in at 12%. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 10% in the neighbourhood.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Rundle Heights, 32.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Rundle Heights sits above 99% of Canadian towns for one-parent families (19%)
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Households in Rundle Heights hold 2.6 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4). Shared houses stand out: 7.6% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 90% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 8.2% of households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns. Across Rundle Heights, 27% of households are one person living alone.
In Rundle Heights, 33% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 80% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law; in Rundle Heights, 12%. 38% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%).
59% of households rent their home, a share 90% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The comparison figure for renter households is 25% across Canada’s towns. 7.8% of homes were built before 1961 and 2.3% in 2001 or later.
Median household income: $63,900 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Rundle Heights had $63,900 before tax, 26% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Alberta’s towns have a median of $92,200. Pandemic benefits reached 40% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Rundle Heights ranks above 79% of Canadian towns on residents without Canadian citizenship: 14%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Set against 17% across Canada’s towns, 30% of residents are immigrants in Rundle Heights. The wider picture: 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Africa (51%) or in Asia (37%).
Above 87% of Canadian towns: 10% of residents have an Indigenous identity
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (16%). For Indigenous residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 2.8%. Rundle Heights has more visible minority residents than nearly four fifths of Canadian towns, at 42%. What’s more, 36% of residents said they have no religion, against 35% across Canada’s towns.
68% have English as their mother tongue; 5.1% also speak French
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
At home: English 80%, French 0.8%. Lower than in 73% of Canadian towns: 5.1% of residents speak English and French. Residents whose mother tongue is French: 2.3%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 13% in Rundle Heights, less than in 88% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 22% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
A job for 47% of residents aged 15 and over
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 47%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 10% of residents are 65 or over.
Youngest by rank: 1st of 41 towns of 5,100 to 5,252 people
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest of these towns is Rundle Heights, at 32.9; the oldest, Inverness, is at 54. Nearest to Rundle Heights in age: Trumpeter Area (33) and Queen Alexandra (34.1).
No nearby town is as young as Rundle Heights
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rundle Heights | 5,175 | — | 32.9 | 10% | 30% |
| Beverly Heights | 3,252 | 1.1 km | 45.5 | 22% | 17% |
| Beacon Heights | 4,389 | 1.4 km | 44.5 | 17% | 17% |
| Overlanders | 2,879 | 1.7 km | 35 | 11% | 27% |
| Newton | 2,809 | 2.3 km | 41.3 | 18% | 20% |
| Belmont | 5,299 | 2.7 km | 38.8 | 15% | 31% |
| Gold Bar | 2,685 | 2.9 km | 39.2 | 16% | 12% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- 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. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Rundle Heights’s residents
What is the population of Rundle Heights?
5,175, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Rundle Heights alone.
What is the average age in Rundle Heights?
32.9 is the median age, younger than 96% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 27%. 65 and over: 10%.
Is Rundle Heights bilingual?
5.1% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.3% speak French only and 93% English only. French is the mother tongue of 2.3%.
How diverse is Rundle Heights?
Immigrants make up 30% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 42% are members of a visible minority, and 10% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Rundle Heights?
Christian: 45%. No religion: 36%. Another religion: 19%.
Is Rundle Heights good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 27%. 38% of households are couple families and 19% one-parent families. Schools near Rundle Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rundle Heights?
$63,900 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Rundle Heights (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
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).