Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · CC0A larger share of Indigenous residents than 73% of Canadian towns: 5.5%
By its share of renter households (17%), St. Albert is below 69% of Canadian towns. Some 74,621 people live locally, by the estimate for July 2025. In St. Albert, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone. Children under 15 are more common here than in 71% of Canadian towns.
+4% since 2016, a pace below 51% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 9% higher again.
12% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 66% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 7% of residents. Against that, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. With a median age of 42.4, St. Albert is older than 52% of Canadian towns. Residents aged 65 and over are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 19%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ St. Albert, 42.4. 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.
St. Albert households average 2.6 people, larger than in 67% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
There is little gap on one-parent families: 8.9%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
St. Albert ranks below 73% of Canadian towns on 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, 54% of residents 15 and over are married in St. Albert. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
In St. Albert, 70% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 59% 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
By its share of households in buildings of five or more storeys (1.1%), St. Albert is above just over three fifths of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%. Newer homes outnumber old: 32% date from 2001 or later, 2.8% from before 1961.
Median household income here: $117,000 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; St. Albert’s, at $117,000, is 36% higher. The middle household across Alberta’s towns has $92,200 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 24% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 56% 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
Most recent wave: 33% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (41%), then in Asia (37%).
41% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 69% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
In St. Albert, just over one in ten residents belong to a visible minority. Across the comparison, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
11% of residents speak English and French, more than in 63% of Canadian towns
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
Where 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, St. Albert has 2.6%. The share of bilingual residents across Canada’s towns is 7.5%.
Above 59% of Canadian towns: 32% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 5.1% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
60% of residents 15 and over were in work
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. 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%, below this 60%.
The 20th oldest of 41 towns of 55,572 to 100,806 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Between Grande Prairie (34) and Lindsay (51.6) lies the rest of the group. The closest ages to St. Albert’s belong to Blainville (42), Medicine Hat (42.4), Brossard (42.8) and Peterborough (43.2).
Every neighbour of St. Albert has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Albert | 74,621 | — | 42.4 | 19% | 13% |
| Albany | 3,015 | 4.7 km | 29.9 | 4.7% | 32% |
| Carlton | 5,502 | 4.9 km | 34 | 8.2% | 39% |
| Oxford | 4,460 | 5.6 km | 38.1 | 13% | 37% |
| Cumberland | 6,493 | 5.8 km | 37 | 8.6% | 37% |
| Rapperswill | 3,639 | 6.1 km | 32.2 | 4% | 41% |
| Hudson | 3,634 | 6.4 km | 36.8 | 11% | 45% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- 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 St. Albert’s residents
What is the average age in St. Albert?
Half the residents are older than 42.4 and half younger, older than 52% of Canadian towns; 18% are children under 15 and 19% are 65 or over.
Is St. Albert bilingual?
11% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.1% speak French only and 89% English only. French is the mother tongue of 2.6%.
How diverse is St. Albert?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 13%. A visible minority makes up 11% and Indigenous residents 5.5%.
What religion are people in St. Albert?
Most often Christian (55%) or no religion (41%); other religions make up 3.3%.
Is St. Albert good for families?
Children under 15 are 18% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 62% of households and one-parent families 8.9%. Schools near St. Albert are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in St. Albert?
Median total household income in St. Albert was $117,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of St. Albert?
The latest figure is an estimate: 74,621 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, St. Albert counted 68,232, 4% more than 2016.
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).