Photo: Samyaka.verma · CC BY-SA 3.0A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 94% of Canadian towns, at 31%
By its share of Indigenous residents (8.7%), Carman is above 84% of Canadian towns. Here, 15% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Half of the town’s residents are over 48.4, older than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns. This Manitoba town had about 3,547 residents in July 2025, by Statistics Canada’s estimate, and 1,405 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Carman
Many older residents
31% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 94% of Canadian towns; 13% are 80 or over, and 36% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Slower than most: −2% since 2016, behind 87% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Manitoba’s towns +4%. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 14%.
9.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 76% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with 7.7% of residents. Higher than in 63% of Canadian towns: 17% of residents are under 15.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Carman, 48.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
More one-person households than 79% of Canadian towns: 36%
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families is 8.2%; Carman has 6.4%. On average, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners: 6.8%, a lower share than 81% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The share of married residents 15 and over tops nearly four fifths of Canadian towns: 55%. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Renter households make up 23% in Carman, less than in 55% of Canadian towns
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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: 20% date from 2001 or later, 19% from before 1961. Across the comparison, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. 66% of households live in a single-detached house; across Canada’s towns the figure is 64%.
$67,500 a year: where the middle household sits
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 Carman had $67,500 before tax, 22% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The median across Manitoba’s towns is $83,000. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 15% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
7.7% of residents are immigrants
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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
Against a figure of 17% across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants in Carman comes in at 7.7%. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (40%), then in Asia (38%).
Only 30% of residents said they have no religion in Carman
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The figure for visible minority residents is 5.8% in Carman and 15% across Canada’s towns. Against that, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
86% have English as their mother tongue; 4.9% also speak French
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Where 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns, Carman has 4.9%. At 2.1%, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French is higher than in 62% of Canadian towns.
Carman sits below 64% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (21%)
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 12% (typical 9.5%). Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
51% of adults were employed in May 2021
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 51%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 31% of residents are 65 or over.
The 7th oldest of 41 towns of 3,491 to 3,606 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Opportunity No. 17 is the youngest of them at 31.2; Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary, at 57.6, the oldest. Edwards - Carlsbad Springs (48.4), Kingston (48.4), Horton (48.8) and Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part (51.2): the towns nearest Carman in median age.
Carman is older than every town around it
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Manitoba’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. 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. 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.
Questions about Carman’s residents
Is Carman bilingual?
English and French: 4.9% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 95%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 2.1%.
How diverse is Carman?
Immigrants: 7.7% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 5.8%. Indigenous identity: 8.7%.
What religion are people in Carman?
30% said they have no religion and 68% that they are Christian; 2.2% named another faith.
Is Carman good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 53% of households and one-parent families 6.4%. Schools near Carman are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carman?
Half of Carman’s households had more than $67,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Carman?
About 3,547, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 3,114 people in Carman, 2% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Carman?
The median age is 48.4, older than 81% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 31% 65 or older.
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).