Photo: Pearson Singbeil Montgomery · CC BY-SA 4.0More Indigenous residents than 92% of Canadian towns: 13%
The share of one-person households is 37%, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 24% of the total. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 23%, more than in 71% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 9,016 residents and 4,045 households in Booth.
What stands out about the people of Booth
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 13% of residents, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, and 4.2% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Booth sits below 67% of Canadian towns for children under 15 (15%)
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
More residents are 25–29 than any other five-year age: 7.3% of residents. With a median age of 42.7, Booth is older than 54% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Booth, 42.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
Smaller households than 79% of Canadian towns: 2.2 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 10%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 65% of Canadian towns: 41%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
30% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Census figures put common-law partners at 10% in Booth. As a yardstick, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
47% of households rent their home, a share 83% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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
By its share of households in single-detached houses (49%), Booth is below 69% of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 33% predate 1961, 2.3% date from 2001 or later.
$78,500 a year: the median household income
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Booth had $78,500 before tax, 9% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Manitoba’s towns, the household in the middle had $83,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 23% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 13% in Booth, more than in 67% of Canadian towns
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (48%) and in Europe (31%). On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 30% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1.3% of residents.
Booth: 45% of residents said they have no religion, above 78% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
On the census count, 14% of residents belong to a visible minority. Against that, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
Booth: 10% of residents speak English and French, above 61% of Canadian towns
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
6.8% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.5% speak neither official language. Compared with other places, residents whose mother tongue is French are common here: 2.3%, more than in 65% of Canadian towns. To put it in context, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Booth: 30% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 56% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate, diploma or degree is held by 6.4%; in the typical town the share is 9.5%. As a yardstick, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 58% 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 here, 58%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
19th lowest median age among 41 towns of 8,819 to 9,215
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Hampton Village is the youngest of them at 32.3; Pictou County, Subdivision C, at 52, the oldest. Saint-Robert (42), Rosewood Park (42.1), Saint-Jean-Baptiste (42.9) and Fall River (42.9): the towns nearest Booth in median age.
Every neighbour of Booth has an older population
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booth | 9,016 | — | 42.7 | 23% | 14% |
| Silver Heights | 7,883 | 1.2 km | 44.7 | 23% | 15% |
| Heritage Park | 5,817 | 1.4 km | 45.1 | 25% | 14% |
| Sturgeon Creek | 3,202 | 1.6 km | 44.1 | 22% | 19% |
| Kirkfield | 4,100 | 1.7 km | 54.1 | 33% | 13% |
| Westwood | 5,716 | 2.4 km | 44.5 | 21% | 12% |
| Deer Lodge | 3,691 | 2.4 km | 43 | 18% | 15% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Booth’s residents
Is Booth bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 10% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 89% speak only English and 0.1% only French; 2.3% grew up with French.
How diverse is Booth?
Immigrants: 14% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 14%. Indigenous identity: 13%.
What religion are people in Booth?
45% said they have no religion and 50% that they are Christian; 5.5% named another faith.
Is Booth good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 43% of households and one-parent families 10%. Schools near Booth are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Booth?
Half of Booth’s households had more than $78,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Booth?
Booth had 9,016 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Booth?
The median age is 42.7, older than 54% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 23% 65 or older.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. 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).