Indigenous residents make up 22% in Chalmers, more than in 97% of Canadian towns
With households in buildings of five or more storeys at 13%, Chalmers is ahead of 82% of Canadian towns on that count. Census day 2021: 12,384 residents and 5,390 households in the neighbourhood. On the census count, 12% of residents are 65 or over. One-parent families are more common here than in 94% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Chalmers
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 22% of residents, more than in 97% of Canadian towns, and 10% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Chalmers is younger than 84% of Canadian towns: a median age of 36.6
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of children under 15 is 16%; Chalmers has 20%. What’s more, 12% of Chalmers is 65 or over, against 17% across Manitoba’s towns and 19% across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Chalmers, 36.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
A larger share of one-person households than 80% of Canadian towns: 36%
Private households by type and size.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Chalmers, 2.3. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 82% of Canadian towns: 33%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The figure for common-law partners is 13% in Chalmers and 11% across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Chalmers sits above 81% of Canadian towns for renter households (45%)
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
One in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. As a reference point, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 63% predate 1961, 4.7% date from 2001 or later.
Median household income here: $62,800 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Chalmers’s median household took in $62,800 before tax, 27% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The median across Manitoba’s towns is $83,000. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 33% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
In Chalmers, 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 74% of Canadian towns
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 30%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
10% of residents are not Canadian citizens; across Canada’s towns the figure is 5.8%. Immigrants: 23% of the total. Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%.
Chalmers sits above 76% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (44%)
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
29% of residents belong to a visible minority, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Among other religions: Muslim (2.6%). Across the comparison, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 75%, and 6.7% speak French as well
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
2.2% of residents have French as their mother tongue, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
A smaller share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 68% of Canadian towns: 20%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Chalmers, 20%, and 29% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 17%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
Employment: 59% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. 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%, much like this 59%.
In its size band (12,126 to 12,639), the 7th youngest of 41 towns
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
At one end is Blackfalds (31.8), at the other Elliot Lake (60.4). The closest ages to Chalmers’s belong to Norwich (36), Highland West (36.3), Bridlewood (37) and DT Hospital (38).
5 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Chalmers
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalmers | 12,384 | — | 36.6 | 12% | 23% |
| Munroe West | 2,532 | 1.2 km | 38.2 | 13% | 20% |
| Talbot-Grey | 2,756 | 1.2 km | 36.5 | 11% | 25% |
| North Point Douglas | 2,670 | 1.6 km | 41.8 | 21% | 16% |
| Luxton | 3,047 | 1.6 km | 37.9 | 13% | 11% |
| Rossmere-B | 4,732 | 2.0 km | 40.7 | 17% | 17% |
| North St. Boniface | 3,358 | 2.1 km | 37.4 | 14% | 14% |
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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- What these tables don’t give. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
Questions about Chalmers’s residents
What religion are people in Chalmers?
Most often Christian (49%) or no religion (44%); other religions make up 7.3%.
Is Chalmers good for families?
Children under 15 are 20% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 37% of households and one-parent families 13%. Schools near Chalmers are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Chalmers?
Median total household income in Chalmers was $62,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Chalmers?
The 2021 Census counted 12,384 people in Chalmers.
What is the average age in Chalmers?
Half the residents are older than 36.6 and half younger, younger than 84% of Canadian towns; 20% are children under 15 and 12% are 65 or over.
Is Chalmers bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 6.7% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 92% speak only English and 0.1% only French; 2.2% grew up with French.
How diverse is Chalmers?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 23%. A visible minority makes up 29% and Indigenous residents 22%.
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).