Photo: HS01 · CC BY-SA 4.0Younger than 91% of Canadian towns: half of Dufferin is under 34.8
Compared with 25% across Canada’s towns, nearly one in ten households rent their home here. Dufferin is home to some 2,587 people (July 2025 estimate), in 760 households at the 2021 Census. For Dufferin, the census puts one-person households at 16%. Few places have so few residents who moved in within the year: 5.6% here, fewer than in 97% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Dufferin
Younger than most towns
Line Dufferin’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 34.8; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 28% are under 15 and 14% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Dufferin grew +4% from 2016 to 2021, ahead of 52% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 2%.
Children under 15: 28%, a higher share than 99% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 14%, against 19% across Canada’s towns. As a yardstick, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Dufferin, 34.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women.
Dufferin households average 3.1 people, larger than in 92% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Nearly one in ten households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns, against 5.3% in Dufferin.
Above 98% of Canadian towns: 62% of residents 15 and over are married
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The share of common-law partners trails 87% of Canadian towns: 5.7%. Set beside that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Households in single-detached houses: 97%, a higher share than 98% of Canadian towns
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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. For households in single-detached houses, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 64%. Older homes outnumber new: 26% predate 1961, 24% date from 2001 or later.
$89,000 a year: where the middle household sits
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Dufferin had $89,000 before tax, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Manitoba’s towns has $83,000 before tax. 13% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
9.6% of residents are immigrants
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Recent arrivals are 53% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. The census found that 2.1% of residents are not Canadian citizens in Dufferin. This Manitoba town has fewer immigrants than 65% of Canadian towns, at 9.6%.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 69% of Canadian towns, at 29%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Set against 15% across Canada’s towns, 0.9% of residents belong to a visible minority in Dufferin. The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 35% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 4.5% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Dufferin ranks above 66% of Canadian towns on residents whose mother tongue is French: 2.6%
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 85%, French 0.8%. Set beside that, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns. Fewer bilingual residents than in 69% of Canadian towns: 5.5%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 65% of Canadian towns: 21%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 16% here, 9.5% in the typical town. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 73% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 73%.
41 towns of 2,536 to 2,643 people: this is the 3rd youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Median ages here range from 32.7 in City Commercial Core to 67.7 in Brockville. Closest in median age to Dufferin are City Commercial Core (32.7), Sexsmith (33.2), Minchau (35.2) and Magrath (36).
Dufferin is younger than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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 Dufferin’s residents
What is the population of Dufferin?
Dufferin had about 2,587 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 2,543, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Dufferin?
A median age of 34.8, younger than 91% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 28%, and people 65 and over 14%.
Is Dufferin bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.5% are. Another 0.2% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 2.6%.
How diverse is Dufferin?
9.6% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 0.9% belong to a visible minority and 4.5% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Dufferin?
71% are Christian and 29% have no religion; 0.4% follow another religion.
Is Dufferin good for families?
Under 15: 28% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 73% of households. One-parent families: 5.3%. Schools near Dufferin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dufferin?
The median household in Dufferin took in $89,000 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
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).