Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 95% of Canadian towns: 14% of residents said they have no religion
5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, against 12% in Altona. The 2021 Census found 1,700 households locally; by July 2025 the population was about 4,989. Across Altona, 19% of residents are under 15. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 78% of Canadian towns.
A change of +1% since 2016 leaves Altona behind 69% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. 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 +4% across Manitoba’s towns. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 17% higher again.
Half of Altona is under 40, younger than 63% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 0–4: 6.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 71% of Canadian towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 21% in Altona.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Altona, 40. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
More one-person households than 57% of Canadian towns: 29%
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Altona, 4.7% of households are one-parent families, beside 8.2% across Canada’s towns. The average household has 2.4 people. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone.
A lower share of common-law partners than 96% of Canadian towns, at 3.6%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Three in five residents 15 and over are married (Canada’s towns: 46%). Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of households in single-detached houses than 60% of Canadian towns: 72%
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
Nearly a quarter of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 21% built before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Renter households: 28% here and 25% across Canada’s towns.
Half of households earn more than $72,500 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run lower in Altona: half had less than $72,500, 16% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Manitoba’s towns have a median of $83,000. 14% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
19% of residents are immigrants, a share 54% 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 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (51%) and in the Americas (35%). Across Canada’s towns, immigrants come to 17%. Of the immigrants living here, 63% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
A larger share of visible minority residents than 50% of Canadian towns: 16%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (3.8%). As a yardstick, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. There is little gap on Indigenous residents: 2.7%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 62%, and 4% 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, 4% of residents speak English and French here. 13% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.2% speak neither official language. Few places have so few residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.8% here, fewer than in 81% of Canadian towns.
In Altona, 23% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 58% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 15% here, 9.5% in the typical town. On average, 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.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 59%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 4,908 to 5,087 people: this is the 11th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Westdale South is the youngest of them at 31.1; Northern Bruce Peninsula, at 61.6, the oldest. Cumberland (39.2), Lemoyne (39.3), Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (40.4) and Lakewood Urban Centre (40.6): the towns nearest Altona in median age.
Among its 4 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Altona
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page. Distances here run 12–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Altona.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
Questions about Altona’s residents
What is the population of Altona?
About 4,989, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 4,267 people in Altona, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Altona?
The median age is 40, younger than 63% of Canadian towns. 19% are under 15 and 21% 65 or older.
Is Altona bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.8%.
How diverse is Altona?
Immigrants: 19% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 16%. Indigenous identity: 2.7%.
What religion are people in Altona?
14% said they have no religion and 81% that they are Christian; 5% named another faith.
Is Altona good for families?
19% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 61% of households and one-parent families 4.7%. Schools near Altona are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Altona?
Half of Altona’s households had more than $72,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).