A larger share of one-person households than 93% of Canadian towns: 44%
Indigenous residents: 8.7% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 37% of households live in a single-detached house. More residents who moved in within the year than in 76% of Canadian towns: 15%. Woodcroft counted 2,770 residents and 1,285 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Woodcroft
A neighbourhood of renters
60% of households rent their home, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 45% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 44%, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, and 27% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Many older residents
27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 86% of Canadian towns; 8.9% are 80 or over, and 44% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
27% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 90% of Canadian towns; 20% of homes are condominiums. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Woodcroft sits above 86% of Canadian towns for residents aged 65 and over (27%)
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.
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Measured more widely, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. 60–64 is the most common age band: 6.9% of residents. With a median age of 43.9, Woodcroft is older than 61% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Woodcroft, 43.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Smaller households than 79% of Canadian towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
Where nearly one in ten households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns, Woodcroft has 9.4%.
Woodcroft sits below 73% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (7.9%)
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Set against 46% across Canada’s towns, nearly two in five residents 15 and over are married in Woodcroft. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Renter households: 60%, a higher share than 91% 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
Nearly one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Census figures put households in buildings of five or more storeys at 27% in Woodcroft. Across Canada’s towns, renter households come to 25%.
Household income, middle of the range: $59,700 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $59,700, the middle household in Woodcroft earned 31% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. In 2020, 27% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
In Woodcroft, 11% of residents are not Canadian citizens, more than in 72% 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 30%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (38%), then in Africa (28%). Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 5.8% across Canada’s towns. 24% of residents are immigrants, a higher share than in 62% of Canadian towns. Most recent wave: 47% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%).
A higher share of visible minority residents than 66% of Canadian towns, at 29%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (2.4%). Typically, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Residents with no religion are more common here than in 63% of Canadian towns.
English is the mother tongue of 70%, and 5.2% 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
13% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.9% speak neither official language. Woodcroft has fewer bilingual residents than 72% of Canadian towns, at 5.2%. Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.8%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 59% of Canadian towns, at 23%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Woodcroft, 23%, and 32% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 13%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
Employment: 41% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 41%; 27% of residents are 65 or over.
18th lowest median age among 41 towns of 2,736 to 2,808
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The youngest of these towns is Kuujjuaq, at 28.8; the oldest, Cultus Lake, is at 56.8. Souris (43.6), Saint-Prime (43.6), Central River Heights (44.1) and Yamachiche (44.8): the towns nearest Woodcroft in median age.
Every neighbour of Woodcroft has a younger population
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodcroft | 2,770 | — | 43.9 | 27% | 24% |
| Inglewood | 7,167 | 1.1 km | 38.7 | 15% | 33% |
| North Glenora | 3,693 | 1.6 km | 39.3 | 17% | 18% |
| Sherbrooke | 7,131 | 1.7 km | 38.9 | 14% | 25% |
| Westmount | 4,961 | 2.0 km | 40.8 | 14% | 17% |
| Athlone | 3,242 | 2.2 km | 40 | 14% | 34% |
| Glenora | 6,197 | 2.7 km | 40.4 | 17% | 17% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- 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.
Questions about Woodcroft’s residents
What is the population of Woodcroft?
The 2021 Census counted 2,770 people in Woodcroft.
What is the average age in Woodcroft?
The median age is 43.9, older than 61% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 27% 65 or older.
Is Woodcroft bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.2% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 94% speak only English and 0% only French; 1.8% grew up with French.
How diverse is Woodcroft?
Immigrants: 24% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 29%. Indigenous identity: 8.7%.
What religion are people in Woodcroft?
39% said they have no religion and 55% that they are Christian; 5.6% named another faith.
Is Woodcroft good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 35% of households and one-parent families 9.4%. Schools near Woodcroft are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Woodcroft?
Half of Woodcroft’s households had more than $59,700 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $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).