Photo: Casey Yee from Vancouver, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.048% of residents are immigrants, a share 91% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The typical household size is 3 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. 13% of residents are 65 or over, a lower share than in 82% of Canadian towns. Bridgeview counted 3,511 residents and 1,130 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put residents without Canadian citizenship at 18% here.
What stands out about the people of Bridgeview
More immigrants than most towns
Immigrants make up 48% of residents; the medians are 16% across British Columbia’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (74%) and in Europe (9.3%), and 26% arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A mix of backgrounds
65% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 92% of Canadian towns; 48% are immigrants. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 16% in Bridgeview, more than in 95% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Half of Bridgeview’s residents are under 38.8, younger than in 71% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bridgeview, 38.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 118 men for every 100 women.
In Bridgeview, 24% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 61% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Shared houses stand out: one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 97% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. One-parent families: 8.5% of the total.
6.9% of residents 15 and over live common-law, below 80% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: nearly two in five adults (typical: 27%). Just over two in five residents 15 and over are married, a lower share than in 64% of Canadian towns. The share of common-law partners across Canada’s towns is 11%.
A lower share of households in single-detached houses than 70% of Canadian towns, at 49%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. To put it in context, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. On the census count, nearly a third of households rent their home. Nearly one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%.
Median gross household income: $86,100 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes sit at the middle in Bridgeview: half had more than $86,100, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across British Columbia’s towns the median is $87,000. 39% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Residents who moved in within the year: 16%, a higher share than 83% of Canadian towns
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 60%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (74%) and in Europe (9.3%). The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Canada’s towns: 11%. Most recent wave: 26% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%).
Bridgeview: 65% of residents belong to a visible minority, above 92% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Here 37% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 35%. Across the comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. The census found that 4.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity in Bridgeview.
Beyond English and French: 55% grew up with another language
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 59%, French 0.1%. On bilingual residents, Bridgeview sits lower than 90% of Canadian towns: 3.6%. Add to that, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French is 0.4%, against 1.5% across Canada’s towns.
Below 63% of Canadian towns: 21% 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
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Bridgeview, 21%, and 26% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%).
55% of adults were employed in May 2021
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 55% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 13% of residents are 65 or over.
Youngest by rank: 10th of 41 towns of 3,444 to 3,580 people
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The youngest is Richfield (33.5) and the oldest Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap (61.2). The towns whose median age is nearest to Bridgeview’s: Guybourg (38.5), Downtown East Village (38.7), Lynnwood (39) and Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby (39.2).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Bridgeview
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeview | 3,511 | — | 38.8 | 13% | 48% |
| Whalley | 52,642 | 2.6 km | 34.9 | 12% | 49% |
| Port Mann | 5,988 | 2.6 km | 39.6 | 15% | 40% |
| New Westminster | 92,124 | 3.7 km | 40.4 | 16% | 38% |
| Birdland | 10,745 | 4.0 km | 37.4 | 12% | 48% |
| Brownsville | 23,515 | 4.2 km | 34.6 | 14% | 47% |
| East Burnaby | 17,233 | 4.6 km | 43 | 20% | 50% |
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. 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. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across British Columbia’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
Questions about Bridgeview’s residents
Is Bridgeview good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 39% of households and one-parent families 8.5%. Schools near Bridgeview are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bridgeview?
Median total household income in Bridgeview was $86,100 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Bridgeview?
The 2021 Census counted 3,511 people in Bridgeview.
What is the average age in Bridgeview?
Half the residents are older than 38.8 and half younger, younger than 71% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
Is Bridgeview bilingual?
3.6% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 91% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.4%.
How diverse is Bridgeview?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 48%. A visible minority makes up 65% and Indigenous residents 4.9%.
What religion are people in Bridgeview?
Most often Christian (39%) or no religion (37%); other religions make up 24%.
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).