Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Half of Taber is under 27.4, younger than 99% of Canadian towns
The average household has 3.4 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. About 8,009 people lived in Taber in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates. Across Taber, 93% of households live in a single-detached house. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in 92% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Taber
Younger than most towns
The middle resident of Taber is 27.4; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 32% are under 15 and 10% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Taber grew +5% from 2016 to 2021, ahead of 55% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +1% across Alberta’s towns. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 8%.
32% of residents are under 15, a share 99% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Set against 19% across Canada’s towns, 10% of residents are 65 or over in Taber. The wider picture: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Taber, 27.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women.
Below 88% of Canadian towns: 16% of households are one person living alone
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.
In Taber, 3.8% of households are one-parent families, beside 8.2% across Canada’s towns. For comparison, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners make up 2.5% in Taber, less than in 99% 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
27% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Set beside that, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Taber ranks below 56% of Canadian towns on renter households: 23%
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
24% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 22% built before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. Set beside that, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Before tax, the median household income is $88,000 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 sit at the middle in Taber: half had more than $88,000, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among Alberta’s towns, the typical figure is $92,200. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 13% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
In Taber, 25% of residents are immigrants, more than in 63% of Canadian towns
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
Immigrants here were most often born in the Americas (86%), then in Europe (13%). The comparison figure for immigrants is 17% across Canada’s towns. A year before the census, 12% lived somewhere else: more than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are just over a fifth of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1.3% of residents.
83% said they are Christian and 16% that they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Set against 15% across Canada’s towns, 2.2% of residents belong to a visible minority in Taber. Here, 1% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Beyond English and French: 54% grew up with another language
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
0.5% of residents speak English and French (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). Census figures put residents whose mother tongue is French at 0.1% in Taber.
Below 98% of Canadian towns: 8.7% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 46% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 64%
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. 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 64%.
Youngest by rank: 1st of 41 towns of 7,877 to 8,148 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 27.4 in Taber to 59.2 in Haliburton Village. Closest in median age to Taber are Charlesworth (32.3) and Allard (32.4).
Older than Taber: 2 of the 3 towns nearby
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- 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.
Questions about Taber’s residents
What religion are people in Taber?
83% are Christian and 16% have no religion; 0.4% follow another religion.
Is Taber good for families?
Under 15: 32% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 76% of households. One-parent families: 3.8%. Schools near Taber are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Taber?
The median household in Taber took in $88,000 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Taber?
Taber had about 8,009 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 7,447, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Taber?
A median age of 27.4, younger than 99% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 32%, and people 65 and over 10%.
Is Taber bilingual?
0.5% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 96% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.1%.
How diverse is Taber?
25% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 2.2% belong to a visible minority and 1% have an Indigenous identity.
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).