Residents aged 65 and over: 5.5%, a lower share than 99% of Canadian towns
Across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are immigrants; in The Hamptons, 35%. Few places have as many visible minority residents: 45% here, more than in 81% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 12,008 residents and 4,005 households locally. The census found that 18% of households are one person living alone here.
What stands out about the people of The Hamptons
Younger than most towns
The middle resident of The Hamptons is 35.1; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 24% are under 15 and 5.5% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
The Hamptons is younger than 90% of Canadian towns: a median age of 35.1
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
More residents are 40–44 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Canada’s towns. At 24%, the share of children under 15 is higher than in 96% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ The Hamptons, 35.1. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 90% of Canadian towns: 3 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.
One-parent families: 8.4% of the total.
Married residents 15 and over make up 53% in The Hamptons, more than in 73% 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
Single and never married: 29% of adults, against a typical 27%. 9.6% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
A lower share of renter households than 59% of Canadian towns, at 21%
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
58% of households live in a single-detached house (Canada’s towns: 64%). The usual figure: 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. The census found that 0.4% of households live in a building of five or more storeys in The Hamptons.
The middle household earns $120,600 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $120,600, the middle household in The Hamptons out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 40%. The provincial yardstick is $92,200, the median across Alberta’s towns. The pandemic’s benefits: 36% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
More residents without Canadian citizenship than 67% of Canadian towns: 9.9%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 45%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 35% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 13% in The Hamptons. The share of residents without Canadian citizenship across Canada’s towns is 5.8%.
A higher share of Indigenous residents than 70% of Canadian towns, at 5%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (6.6%). The benchmark for Indigenous residents across Canada’s towns: 2.8%. Where just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns, The Hamptons has 37%.
English is the mother tongue of 63%, and 5.7% 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
18% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.8% speak neither official language. The Hamptons has fewer bilingual residents than 67% of Canadian towns, at 5.7%. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 1%.
A higher share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 70% of Canadian towns, at 39%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate, diploma or degree is held by 6.4%; in the typical town the share is 9.5%. Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 68% 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.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 68%.
6th lowest median age among 41 towns of 11,716 to 12,304
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The span goes from 31.5 (Cityscape) up to 58.4 (Saint-Sauveur). Fletchers Meadow North (33.9), South Cameron (34.2), Chapman Mills (35.5) and Valley Creek (38.7): the towns nearest The Hamptons in median age.
Of the 6 towns nearest The Hamptons, 4 are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hamptons | 12,008 | — | 35.1 | 5.5% | 35% |
| Edgemont | 5,059 | 1.4 km | 31.9 | 4.4% | 42% |
| Jamieson Place | 3,813 | 1.9 km | 44 | 16% | 29% |
| Granville | 2,994 | 2.0 km | 34.9 | 7.2% | 43% |
| Glastonbury | 9,745 | 2.5 km | 42.5 | 17% | 31% |
| Ormsby Place | 4,412 | 2.7 km | 37.1 | 12% | 33% |
| Lymburn | 7,231 | 2.9 km | 38.8 | 14% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about The Hamptons’s residents
Is The Hamptons good for families?
24% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 60% of households and one-parent families 8.4%. Schools near The Hamptons are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in The Hamptons?
Half of The Hamptons’s households had more than $120,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of The Hamptons?
12,008, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for The Hamptons alone.
What is the average age in The Hamptons?
The median age is 35.1, younger than 90% of Canadian towns. 24% are under 15 and 5.5% 65 or older.
Is The Hamptons bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.7% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 93% speak only English and 0% only French; 1% grew up with French.
How diverse is The Hamptons?
Immigrants: 35% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 45%. Indigenous identity: 5%.
What religion are people in The Hamptons?
37% said they have no religion and 52% that they are Christian; 11% named another faith.
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).