Photo: Matthew Boonstra · CC BY-SA 4.0Younger than 87% of Canadian towns: half of Fort Saskatchewan is under 36
Most recent wave: 52% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). Census figures put residents with no religion at 47% in Fort Saskatchewan. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are common here: 14%, more than in 71% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 30,575 for July 2025.
What stands out about the people of Fort Saskatchewan
Younger than most towns
Half of Fort Saskatchewan’s residents are under 36 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 21% are under 15 and 13% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Growing faster than most
Fort Saskatchewan went from 24,169 people in 2016 to 27,088 in 2021, +12%: faster growth than in 88% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A +12% change since 2016: faster than 88% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. The census counts of 2016 and 2021, the estimate after them, and the change set beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 13%. Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Alberta’s towns, +1%.
In Fort Saskatchewan, 21% of residents are under 15, more than in 88% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with 9.1% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Elsewhere, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 13%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Fort Saskatchewan, 36. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
2.6 people per household, more than in 67% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Fort Saskatchewan, 24% of households are one person living alone, beside 27% across Canada’s towns. The share of one-parent families stands at 8.2%.
Fort Saskatchewan sits above 65% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (13%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The figure for married residents 15 and over is 49% in Fort Saskatchewan and 46% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
24% of households rent their home, below 52% 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
55% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 5.7% built before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home. Little separates the share of households in single-detached houses here, 64%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $113,000 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
Household incomes run high in Fort Saskatchewan: half had more than $113,000, 31% above 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 27% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
9.7% of residents are immigrants
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
Most immigrants were born in Asia (45%) or in Europe (32%). Fort Saskatchewan has fewer immigrants than 65% of Canadian towns, at 9.7%. Set against 5.8% across Canada’s towns, 4.4% of residents are not Canadian citizens here.
Above 80% of Canadian towns: 7.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, Fort Saskatchewan has 9.2%. As a yardstick, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
1.8% of residents have French as their mother tongue, more than in 57% of Canadian towns
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
At home: English 95%, French 0.7%. The comparison figure for residents whose mother tongue is French is 1.5% across Canada’s towns. Fort Saskatchewan has fewer bilingual residents than two thirds of Canadian towns, at 5.7%.
Only 18% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher in Fort Saskatchewan
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate, diploma or degree is held by 5.9%; in the typical town the share is 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 63% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 63%.
In its size band (28,904 to 32,167), the 8th youngest of 41 towns
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Magog is the oldest at 54.4, Alloa the youngest at 31.3. The closest ages to Fort Saskatchewan’s belong to Portobello South (35.2), Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown (35.8), Savane (36.2) and Verdun-Centre (36.4).
Older than Fort Saskatchewan: 3 of the 6 towns nearby
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
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. 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.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
Questions about Fort Saskatchewan’s residents
What religion are people in Fort Saskatchewan?
Most often Christian (51%) or no religion (47%); other religions make up 2.2%.
Is Fort Saskatchewan good for families?
Children under 15 are 21% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 58% of households and one-parent families 8.2%. Schools near Fort Saskatchewan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fort Saskatchewan?
Median total household income in Fort Saskatchewan was $113,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Fort Saskatchewan?
The latest figure is an estimate: 30,575 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Fort Saskatchewan counted 27,088, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Fort Saskatchewan?
Half the residents are older than 36 and half younger, younger than 87% of Canadian towns; 21% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
Is Fort Saskatchewan bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.7% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 94% speak only English and 0.1% only French; 1.8% grew up with French.
How diverse is Fort Saskatchewan?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 9.7%. A visible minority makes up 9.2% and Indigenous residents 7.2%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).