Photo: honkie6367 · CC BY-SA 3.052% of residents are immigrants, more than in 93% of Canadian towns
With one-person households at 10%, Fraser Heights is behind 97% of Canadian towns on that count. The share of residents with no religion stands at 39%. 9.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a lower share than in 64% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood counted 17,688 residents and 5,220 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Fraser Heights
More immigrants than most towns
Immigrants make up 52% of residents; the medians are 16% across British Columbia’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (84%) or in Europe (7.6%), and 26% arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A mix of backgrounds
Visible minority residents make up 72%, more than in 94% of Canadian towns, and immigrants 52%. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 91% of Canadian towns, at 15%
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. Lower than in three quarters of Canadian towns: 15% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Fraser Heights, 42.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 97% of Canadian towns: 3.4 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.
Across Fraser Heights, 7.7% of households are one-parent families.
Below 97% of Canadian towns: 3% of residents 15 and over live common-law
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, against 60% in Fraser Heights. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Fraser Heights ranks below 68% of Canadian towns on renter households: 17%
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
The share of households in single-detached houses tops 61% of Canadian towns: 72%. 30% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 0.8% built before 1961. As a yardstick, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
$121,800 a year is the median household income here
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Fraser Heights’s households had a total income above $121,800, 42% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across British Columbia’s towns have a median of $87,000. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 31% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
A larger share of residents without Canadian citizenship than 84% of Canadian towns: 15%
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
Recent arrivals are just over a quarter of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 5.8% across Canada’s towns.
More visible minority residents than 94% of Canadian towns: 72%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Sikh (6.5%), Buddhist (3.9%) and Muslim (3.7%). 1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity, fewer than in 70% of Canadian towns. The usual figure: 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
60% have a mother tongue other than English or French
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
Where 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, Fraser Heights has 0.3%. Lower than in 91% of Canadian towns: 3.4% of residents speak English and French. 37% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 7% speak neither official language.
Above 84% of Canadian towns: 49% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 4.8% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
58% of adults were employed in May 2021
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 58%.
41 towns of 17,210 to 18,184 people: this is the 18th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Schmidtville is the youngest of them at 29; Edmundston, at 54, the oldest. Nearest to Fraser Heights in age: Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux (42), Swift Current (42), Oakbank (42.4) and Canmore (42.8).
Fraser Heights is older than every town around it
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
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. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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. 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 Fraser Heights’s residents
How diverse is Fraser Heights?
Immigrants make up 52% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 72% are members of a visible minority, and 1.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Fraser Heights?
Christian: 44%. No religion: 39%. Another religion: 18%.
Is Fraser Heights good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 17%. 62% of households are couple families and 7.7% one-parent families. Schools near Fraser Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fraser Heights?
$121,800 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Fraser Heights (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Fraser Heights?
Fraser Heights had 17,688 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Fraser Heights?
42.2 is the median age, older than 51% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 17%. 65 and over: 15%.
Is Fraser Heights bilingual?
3.4% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 89% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.3%.
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).