Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 54.8: Hope is older than 95% of Canadian towns
35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns, against 53% in Hope. In Hope, 12% of residents are under 15. One-person households are more common here than in 73% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 7,183 for July 2025.
What stands out about the people of Hope
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 11% of residents, more than in 89% of Canadian towns, and 3.9% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Hope’s residents are under 54.8 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 31% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
+8% since 2016, a pace 74% of Canadian towns didn’t match
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across British Columbia’s towns, by more than +6%. The July 2025 estimate adds another 7%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 94% of Canadian towns, at 31%
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 10% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 7.8%, fewer than in 92% of Canadian towns. Across the comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Hope, 54.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Hope households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 74% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Hope, 7.5% of households are one-parent families.
In Hope, 44% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 56% 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
24% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Here, 12% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Households in single-detached houses: 74%, a higher share than 64% 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
Just over a fifth of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 15% built before 1961. On renter households, Hope sits lower than just over three fifths of Canadian towns: 21%.
Half above, half below $64,000 a year in household income
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Hope had $64,000 before tax, 26% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among British Columbia’s towns, the typical figure is $87,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 21% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a share 58% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 13% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 0.9% of residents. Most immigrants were born in Europe (55%) or in Asia (19%). The share of residents who moved in within the year across Canada’s towns is 11%.
More Indigenous residents than 89% of Canadian towns: 11%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
By its share of visible minority residents (7.7%), Hope is below 62% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
English is the mother tongue of 89%, and 3.9% 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
Compared with 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 3.9% of residents speak English and French here. At home: English 96%, French 0.1%. On residents whose mother tongue is French, Hope sits lower than 62% of Canadian towns: 1.2%.
In Hope, 13% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 87% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 15%, beside a typical 9.5%. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
44% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
44% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 31% are 65 or more.
Oldest by rank: 4th of 41 towns of 7,052 to 7,329 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is Shannon (32.4), at the other Fairwinds (61.6). Rhatigan Ridge (50.9), Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh (51.2), Val-des-Sources (55.2) and Chandler (56): the towns nearest Hope in median age.
Older than Hope: 2 of the 5 towns nearby
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page. Hope has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 27–44 km out.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | 7,183 | — | 54.8 | 31% | 14% |
| Harrison Hot Springs | 2,148 | 27.1 km | 57.2 | 33% | 19% |
| Kent | 7,093 | 29.3 km | 48 | 26% | 16% |
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 31.8 km | 46 | 20% | 12% |
| Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley | 1,155 | 41.0 km | 58.8 | 34% | 14% |
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley | 1,748 | 44.1 km | 53.6 | 27% | 11% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. Two medians frame each figure: one for British Columbia’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
Questions about Hope’s residents
Is Hope good for families?
12% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 47% of households and one-parent families 7.5%. Schools near Hope are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Hope?
Half of Hope’s households had more than $64,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Hope?
About 7,183, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 6,686 people in Hope, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Hope?
The median age is 54.8, older than 95% of Canadian towns. 12% are under 15 and 31% 65 or older.
Is Hope bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 3.9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 96% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
How diverse is Hope?
Immigrants: 14% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 7.7%. Indigenous identity: 11%.
What religion are people in Hope?
53% said they have no religion and 42% that they are Christian; 4.9% named another faith.
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).