6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 95% of Canadian towns
Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Sakaw has 32%. Locally, just over two in five residents belong to a visible minority. On one-parent families, Sakaw sits higher than 85% of Canadian towns: 11%. At the 2021 Census, 3,453 people lived locally, in 1,305 households.
Younger than 68% of Canadian towns: half of Sakaw is under 39.3
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The share of children under 15 tops 67% of Canadian towns: 18%. 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+
■ Sakaw, 39.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
Sakaw households average 2.6 people, larger than in 72% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Just over a quarter of households are one person living alone.
Sakaw sits below 78% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (7.2%)
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 31% of adults, beside a typical 27%. The census found that 46% of residents 15 and over are married in Sakaw. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
More renter households than 69% of Canadian towns: 36%
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
12% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 1.2% built before 1961. Sakaw has more households in buildings of five or more storeys than 68% of Canadian towns, at 3%. Set beside that, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Compared with 64% across Canada’s towns, 63% of households live in a single-detached house here.
Median household income: $81,600 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Sakaw’s median household took in $81,600 before tax, 5% less than 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 35% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Residents without Canadian citizenship: 13%, a higher share than 78% 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, 38% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Most immigrants were born in Asia (60%) or in the Americas (16%). For residents without Canadian citizenship, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 5.8%.
Indigenous residents make up 5% in Sakaw, more than in 70% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Sikh (8.4%), Hindu (3.8%) and Muslim (2.7%). 32% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 61% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 66%, and 6% speak French as well
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
At home: English 76%, French 1%. Sakaw has fewer bilingual residents than 63% of Canadian towns, at 6%. Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 1.6%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 58% of Canadian towns, at 23%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 13% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.
53% of residents 15 and over were in work
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 53%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 19% of residents are 65 or over.
In its size band (3,392 to 3,516), the 8th youngest of 41 towns
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages here range from 32.8 in Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier to 61.2 in Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap. The closest ages to Sakaw’s belong to Bridgeview (38.8), Lynnwood (39), West Jasper Place (40) and Malartic (40.4).
Median age: 2 of the 6 towns around Sakaw are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakaw | 3,453 | — | 39.3 | 19% | 32% |
| Meyokumin | 4,069 | 0.9 km | 42.4 | 24% | 32% |
| Anthony Henday South East | 4,960 | 1.1 km | 41.5 | 18% | 20% |
| Ekota | 2,509 | 1.4 km | 37.1 | 16% | 30% |
| Pollard Meadows | 4,361 | 1.4 km | 35.9 | 13% | 40% |
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | 1.6 km | 38.4 | 12% | 31% |
| Charlesworth | 8,135 | 1.7 km | 32.3 | 5.8% | 48% |
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. 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 Sakaw’s residents
What religion are people in Sakaw?
Most often Christian (48%) or no religion (32%); other religions make up 21%.
Is Sakaw good for families?
Children under 15 are 18% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 45% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Sakaw are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sakaw?
Median total household income in Sakaw was $81,600 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Sakaw?
The 2021 Census counted 3,453 people in Sakaw.
What is the average age in Sakaw?
Half the residents are older than 39.3 and half younger, younger than 68% of Canadian towns; 18% are children under 15 and 19% are 65 or over.
Is Sakaw bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 6% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 93% speak only English and 0.1% only French; 1.6% grew up with French.
How diverse is Sakaw?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 32%. A visible minority makes up 41% and Indigenous residents 5%.
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).