Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY 3.0More Indigenous residents than 95% of Canadian towns: 18%
The share of children under 15 is 19%, against 16% across Canada’s towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 2,139 residents; the 2021 Census found 825 households. One-person households: nearly a third of the total. Half of Morris’s residents are under 38.4, younger than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Morris
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
18% of residents identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit, more than in 95% of Canadian towns; 8% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Since 2016, Morris has grown +5%, faster than 54% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 8% higher again. Across Manitoba’s towns the median is +4%, and across Canada’s towns +4%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 14%, a higher share than 86% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The largest age band is 20–24: 7.1% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Locally, 19% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Smaller households than 64% of Canadian towns: 2.3 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.
Little separates the share of one-parent families here, 9.1%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners make up 8.8% in Morris, less than in 66% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 25% of adults (typical: 27%). 51% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 63% of Canadian towns. For common-law partners, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 2.4%, a higher share than 66% of Canadian towns
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
Just over one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. For Morris, the census puts households in single-detached houses at 70%.
Before tax, the median household income is $71,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Morris’s, at $71,000, is 17% lower. Across Manitoba’s towns the median is $83,000. In 2020, 21% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 13%, a higher share than 66% of Canadian towns
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
With immigrants at 7.8%, Morris is behind 70% of Canadian towns on that count. As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (40%) and in the Americas (23%).
A larger share of residents with no religion than 62% of Canadian towns: 39%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Compared with 15% across Canada’s towns, 5.9% of residents belong to a visible minority here. Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 35%.
Morris ranks above 72% of Canadian towns on residents whose mother tongue is French: 5.4%
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
Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French; in Morris, 10%. The comparison figure for residents whose mother tongue is French is 1.5% across Canada’s towns.
17% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 76% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 16% (typical 9.5%). As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 57% of residents aged 15 and over
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 57% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Nearby, 1 of 2 towns have older populations than Morris
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
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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. Two medians frame each figure: one for Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
Questions about Morris’s residents
What religion are people in Morris?
Christian: 61%. No religion: 39%. Another religion: 0.7%.
Is Morris good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 19%. 52% of households are couple families and 9.1% one-parent families. Schools near Morris are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Morris?
$71,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Morris (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Morris?
Statistics Canada estimates 2,139 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 1,975 in Morris, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Morris?
38.4 is the median age. Under 15: 19%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Morris bilingual?
English and French: 10% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 90%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 5.4%.
How diverse is Morris?
Immigrants make up 7.8% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 5.9% are members of a visible minority, and 18% 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).