Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/sillygwailo/ - sillygwailo / Richard Eriksson · CC BY 2.0A larger share of visible minority residents than 87% of Canadian towns: 54%
The share of households in single-detached houses is 35%, against 64% across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, immigrants are common here: 40%, more than in 85% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 22,141 people lived in Heights, in 8,720 households. Census figures put children under 15 at 13% here.
Older than 63% of Canadian towns: half of Heights is over 44.2
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.3% of residents. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, more than in 62% of Canadian towns. On residents aged 15 to 24, 11% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Heights, 44.2. 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 61% of Canadian towns: 2.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Locally, 28% of households are one person living alone. Nothing unusual on one-parent families: 8.1%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Only 7.6% of residents 15 and over live common-law in Heights
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
31% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%. Here, 48% of residents 15 and over are married.
A larger share of households in buildings of five or more storeys than 74% of Canadian towns: 5.6%
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
The share of renter households is 33%, against 25% across Canada’s towns. A fifth of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 19% built before 1961.
Household income at the median: $93,800 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Heights’s, at $93,800, is 9% higher. Among British Columbia’s towns, the typical figure is $87,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 28% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
A larger share of residents without Canadian citizenship than 65% of Canadian towns: 9.4%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 50%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
15% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in just over three fifths of Canadian towns: 9.9%. On average, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (66%) or in Europe (22%).
Residents with no religion: 51%, a higher share than 88% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Buddhist (3.6%) and Muslim (2.3%). On Indigenous residents, Heights sits lower than 61% of Canadian towns: 2%. As a reference point, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 52%, and 5.5% 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
At home: English 71%, French 0.1%. On bilingual residents, Heights sits lower than 69% of Canadian towns: 5.5%. 0.6% of residents have French as their mother tongue, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
Heights: 42% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 74% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 5.4% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 59% of residents aged 15 and over
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.
At 59%, the share in work is about the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 9th of 41 towns of 21,627 to 22,633 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Between Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver (31.4) and Cobourg (54.8) lies the rest of the group. By median age, Heights sits among Bedford Park-Nortown (44), Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview (44.2), Lakeview (44.7) and Riverview (45.2).
Every neighbour of Heights has a younger population
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heights | 22,141 | — | 44.2 | 21% | 40% |
| Brentwood | 22,170 | 1.8 km | 35.6 | 13% | 46% |
| Holdom | 7,976 | 2.4 km | 42.1 | 19% | 47% |
| Hastings-Sunrise | 36,072 | 2.7 km | 41.7 | 19% | 43% |
| Lochdale | 7,463 | 3.2 km | 41.2 | 18% | 44% |
| Broadview | 8,008 | 3.5 km | 44.2 | 23% | 52% |
| Burrard Inlet 3 | 2,820 | 3.6 km | 43.2 | 16% | 25% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- 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.
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of British Columbia’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 Heights’s residents
Is Heights bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 5.5% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 89% speak only English and 0% only French; 0.6% grew up with French.
How diverse is Heights?
40% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 54% belong to a visible minority and 2% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Heights?
38% are Christian and 51% have no religion; 11% follow another religion.
Is Heights good for families?
Under 15: 13% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 48% of households. One-parent families: 8.1%. Schools near Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Heights?
The median household in Heights took in $93,800 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Heights?
22,141, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Heights alone.
What is the average age in Heights?
A median age of 44.2, older than 63% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 13%, and people 65 and over 21%.
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).