Photo: The original uploader was Cherkowski at Wikipedia . · CC BY 2.5Cornwallis is younger than 95% of Canadian towns: a median age of 33.2
Here 47% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 35%. Across Cornwallis, 37% of households rent their home. At 20%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 77% of Canadian towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 4,705 residents; the 2021 Census found 1,705 households.
What stands out about the people of Cornwallis
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 12% of residents, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and 4.4% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Younger than most towns
Cornwallis’s median age is 33.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 23% are under 15 and 12% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Cornwallis changed by +1% from 2016 to 2021, slower than 68% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. The census counts of 2016 and 2021, the estimate after them, and the change set beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Manitoba’s towns the median is +4%, and across Canada’s towns +4%. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 3% higher again.
23% of residents are under 15, a share 93% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Here just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. The highest share aged 65 or over among Manitoba’s towns is Brockville’s: 54%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Cornwallis, 33.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women.
Larger households than 67% of Canadian towns: 2.6 people on average
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.
The share of one-parent families is 4.4%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Cornwallis: 56% of residents 15 and over are married, above 82% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns, Cornwallis has 14%. Single and never married: nearly a quarter of adults, against a typical 27%.
Households in single-detached houses make up 62% in Cornwallis, less than in 52% 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: 24% date from 2001 or later, 16% from before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. On average, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
A median household income of $99,000 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Cornwallis’s median household took in $99,000 before tax, 15% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Manitoba’s towns has $83,000 before tax. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 16% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
More residents who moved in within the year than 64% of Canadian towns: 13%
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
Of the immigrants living here, 40% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. At the same time, fewer immigrants than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns: 6.4%. On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (72%) and in the Americas (8.8%).
Cornwallis: 12% of residents have an Indigenous identity, above 90% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of visible minority residents is 3.4%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Measured more widely, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
Residents whose mother tongue is French: 4.2%, a higher share than 71% of Canadian towns
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
By its share of bilingual residents (11%), Cornwallis is above 64% of Canadian towns. On average, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns.
A smaller share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 73% of Canadian towns: 18%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Cornwallis, 18%, and 39% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 6.5%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
73% of residents 15 and over were in work
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 73% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
In its size band (4,609 to 4,811), the 2nd youngest of 41 towns
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Between Pembina Strip (31) and Electoral Area B, Nanaimo (63.2) lies the rest of the group. Next to Cornwallis on this scale come Pembina Strip (31), Central McDougall (34.7) and Carlisle (36.3).
The towns around Cornwallis are all older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page. No closer places have figures: these lie 18–26 km from Cornwallis.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwallis | 4,705 | — | 33.2 | 12% | 6.4% |
| Brandon | 59,444 | 17.9 km | 36.8 | 16% | 18% |
| Oakland-Wawanesa | 1,869 | 21.0 km | 40.8 | 18% | 4.1% |
| Elton | 1,437 | 21.3 km | 40.8 | 16% | 4.1% |
| North Cypress-Langford | 3,234 | 25.1 km | 37.2 | 15% | 9.8% |
| Carberry | 1,950 | 25.8 km | 40 | 23% | 7% |
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 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. 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.
Questions about Cornwallis’s residents
What is the population of Cornwallis?
About 4,705, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 4,568 people in Cornwallis, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cornwallis?
The median age is 33.2, younger than 95% of Canadian towns. 23% are under 15 and 12% 65 or older.
Is Cornwallis bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 11% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 88% speak only English and 0.4% only French; 4.2% grew up with French.
How diverse is Cornwallis?
Immigrants: 6.4% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 3.4%. Indigenous identity: 12%.
What religion are people in Cornwallis?
47% said they have no religion and 52% that they are Christian; 1.1% named another faith.
Is Cornwallis good for families?
23% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 67% of households and one-parent families 4.4%. Schools near Cornwallis are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cornwallis?
Half of Cornwallis’s households had more than $99,000 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).