Photo: s.yume from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Winkler is younger than 94% of Canadian towns: a median age of 33.6
The figure for residents with no religion is 11% in Winkler and 35% across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census found 5,090 households locally; by July 2025 the population was about 16,156. The census found that 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24 locally. 6.1% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, a higher share than in 74% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Winkler
Younger than most towns
The middle resident of Winkler is 33.6; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 23% are under 15 and 16% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Winkler’s population changed by +9% since 2016, more than in 75% 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
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +4% across Manitoba’s towns. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 18% higher again.
Children under 15: 23%, a higher share than 93% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 0–4: nearly one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: 16% of the total.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Winkler, 33.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Larger households than 76% of Canadian towns: 2.7 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.
A quarter of households are one person living alone; across Canada’s towns the figure is 27%. One-parent families account for 5.5%.
A smaller share of common-law partners than 98% of Canadian towns: 2.7%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Set against 46% across Canada’s towns, 62% of residents 15 and over are married in Winkler. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Above 63% of Canadian towns: 32% of households rent their home
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
47% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 7.7% built before 1961. Measured more widely, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Households in single-detached houses: 62% here and 64% across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $70,500 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $70,500, the middle household in Winkler earned 18% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Manitoba’s towns the median is $83,000. In 2020, 17% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
A larger share of residents who moved in within the year than 86% of Canadian towns: 17%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Most recent wave: 36% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). At 11%, the share of residents without Canadian citizenship is higher than in 71% of Canadian towns. Across Winkler, 26% of residents are immigrants.
3.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity, more than in 59% of Canadian towns
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 9.4% in Winkler and 15% across Canada’s towns. The usual figure: 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 54%, and 1.7% speak French as well
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
19% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.6% speak neither official language. On bilingual residents, Winkler sits lower than 98% of Canadian towns: 1.7%. What’s more, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French trails 95% of Canadian towns: 0.4%.
Winkler ranks below 77% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 17%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 27%, against 9.5%.
Employment: 62% of residents 15 and over had a job
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 62%.
41 towns of 15,758 to 16,586 people: this is the 2nd youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
At one end is Evergreen (32.8), at the other Vieux-Moulin (54.3). Next to Winkler on this scale come Evergreen (32.8), Préfontaine (34.4) and North Toronto (35.4).
A younger town than 1 of the 2 around it: Winkler
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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about Winkler’s residents
What is the average age in Winkler?
The median age is 33.6, younger than 94% of Canadian towns. 23% are under 15 and 16% 65 or older.
Is Winkler bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 1.7% are. Another 0% speak only French and 96% only English, and French is the first language of 0.4%.
How diverse is Winkler?
Immigrants: 26% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 9.4%. Indigenous identity: 3.6%.
What religion are people in Winkler?
11% said they have no religion and 85% that they are Christian; 3.4% named another faith.
Is Winkler good for families?
23% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 63% of households and one-parent families 5.5%. Schools near Winkler are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Winkler?
Half of Winkler’s households had more than $70,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Winkler?
About 16,156, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 13,745 people in Winkler, 9% more than 2016.
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).