Photo: AndrewEnns · CC BY-SA 3.0Older than 99% of Canadian towns: half of Okanagan Falls is over 59.2
In Okanagan Falls, 6.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, beside 11% across Canada’s towns. At 13%, the share of renter households is lower than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 4,002 for July 2025. 56% of residents said they have no religion. Every figure here is for Okanagan-Similkameen D as a whole, the municipality Okanagan Falls belongs to.
What stands out about the people of Okanagan Falls
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Okanagan Falls is 59.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 35% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
From 2016 to 2021, Okanagan Falls outgrew 67% of Canadian towns: +7%
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +6% across British Columbia’s towns. By July 2025, Statistics Canada’s estimate had barely moved.
In Okanagan Falls, 35% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, nearly one in ten residents are under 15 in Okanagan Falls. Against that, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Okanagan Falls, 59.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 74% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-person households: 24% here and 27% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 6% of households are one-parent families.
In Okanagan Falls, 56% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 82% 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
The figure for common-law partners is 12% in Okanagan Falls and 11% across Canada’s towns. Typically, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
68% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 56% 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
Newer homes outnumber old: 21% date from 2001 or later, 7.6% from before 1961. On average, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Nothing unusual on households in buildings of five or more storeys: 0.3%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
The median household brings in $77,000 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 lower in Okanagan Falls: half had less than $77,000, 10% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across British Columbia’s towns, half of households had more than $87,000 before tax. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 20% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
13% 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 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are immigrants; in Okanagan Falls, 13%. In Okanagan Falls, 2.9% of residents are not Canadian citizens. 11% lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of Indigenous residents than 76% of Canadian towns: 6.2%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of visible minority residents trails 69% of Canadian towns: 4.9%. Elsewhere, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 90%, and 5.6% 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 98%, French 0.2%. Lower than in 68% of Canadian towns: 5.6% of residents speak English and French. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1.9%.
In Okanagan Falls, 18% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 73% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 8%, beside a typical 9.5%. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 48% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 48%, fewer residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns, and 35% are 65 or over.
Oldest by rank: 1st of 41 towns of 3,927 to 4,080 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Okanagan Falls is the oldest at 59.2, Mistissini the youngest at 29. The closest ages to Okanagan Falls’s belong to Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard (58) and Alexander (58.4).
A younger town than 1 of the 4 around it: Okanagan Falls
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okanagan Falls | 4,002 | — | 59.2 | 35% | 13% |
| Electoral Area I, Okanagan-Similkameen | 2,372 | 3.1 km | 55.6 | 28% | 14% |
| Penticton 1 | 2,147 | 13.1 km | 60.8 | 42% | 0% |
| Penticton | 39,068 | 13.2 km | 52 | 30% | 13% |
| Electoral Area C, Okanagan-Similkameen | 4,103 | 16.3 km | 57.6 | 34% | 22% |
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 British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of British Columbia’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. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
Questions about Okanagan Falls’s residents
Is Okanagan Falls good for families?
Children under 15 are 8.8% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 60% of households and one-parent families 6%. Schools near Okanagan Falls are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Okanagan Falls?
Median total household income in Okanagan Falls was $77,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Okanagan Falls?
The latest figure is an estimate: 4,002 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Okanagan Falls counted 4,016, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Okanagan Falls?
Half the residents are older than 59.2 and half younger, older than 99% of Canadian towns; 8.8% are children under 15 and 35% are 65 or over.
Is Okanagan Falls bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.6% are. Another 0% speak only French and 94% only English, and French is the first language of 1.9%.
How diverse is Okanagan Falls?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 13%. A visible minority makes up 4.9% and Indigenous residents 6.2%.
What religion are people in Okanagan Falls?
Most often Christian (42%) or no religion (56%); other religions make up 2.1%.
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).