Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Grey ranks above 93% of Canadian towns on children under 15: 23%
Indigenous residents: 9.7% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. About 2,655 people lived in Grey in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates. For Grey, the census puts renter households at 14%. The median age here is 38.8, lower than in 71% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Grey
A town of families
23% of residents are under 15, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 4.7% of households are one-parent families and households average 2.5 people. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Grey went from 2,648 people in 2016 to 2,517 in 2021, −5%: slower growth than in 96% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
−5% since 2016: slower than 96% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +4% across Manitoba’s towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.9%, a lower share than 66% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 5–9: nearly one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Canada’s towns. Typically, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. Across Grey, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Grey, 38.8. 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.
Bigger households than 58% of Canadian towns: 2.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 4.7% here and 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 28% in Grey.
In Grey, 59% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 91% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: just over a fifth of adults, against a typical 27%. The wider picture: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 7.9% of the total.
Households in single-detached houses: 88%, a higher share than 85% 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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The benchmark for households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns: 64%.
$73,500 a year: where the middle household sits
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $73,500, the middle household in Grey earned 15% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Manitoba’s towns has $83,000 before tax. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 16% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Below 72% of Canadian towns: 9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (68%) and in the Americas (16%). The comparison figure for residents who moved in within the year is 11% across Canada’s towns. Fewer immigrants than in 70% of Canadian towns: 7.9%. 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, against 2.3% in Grey.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 56% of Canadian towns, at 33%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 2.5% in Grey. Residents with no religion: 35% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of bilingual residents than 78% of Canadian towns: 26%
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
At home: English 88%, French 6%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, residents whose mother tongue is French are common here: 16%, more than in 77% of Canadian towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 13%, a lower share than 87% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
In work on census day: 65% of adults
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 65%.
Youngest by rank: 7th of 41 towns of 2,613 to 2,698 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The span goes from 31 (La Ronge) up to 67.7 (Brockville). Nearest to Grey in age: Westview (38.7), Sweet Grass (38.7), Waterville (39.2) and Gold Bar (39.2).
Older than Grey: 1 of the 3 towns nearby
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page. The nearest places to Grey with figures are 16–27 km away.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey | 2,655 | — | 38.8 | 18% | 7.9% |
| Dufferin | 2,587 | 16.4 km | 34.8 | 14% | 9.6% |
| Carman | 3,547 | 22.9 km | 48.4 | 31% | 7.7% |
| Long Plain 6 | 1,579 | 27.4 km | 21.2 | 5.2% | 0% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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.
Questions about Grey’s residents
What religion are people in Grey?
Christian: 65%. No religion: 33%. Another religion: 1.7%.
Is Grey good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 23%. 62% of households are couple families and 4.7% one-parent families. Schools near Grey are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Grey?
$73,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Grey (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Grey?
Statistics Canada estimates 2,655 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 2,517 in Grey, 5% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Grey?
38.8 is the median age, younger than 71% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 23%. 65 and over: 18%.
Is Grey bilingual?
26% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0.2% speak French only and 74% English only. French is the mother tongue of 16%.
How diverse is Grey?
Immigrants make up 7.9% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 2.5% are members of a visible minority, and 9.7% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
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).