Above 89% of Canadian towns: 11% of residents have an Indigenous identity
In Meadows, 12% of households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns. There were 1,585 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 3,822 people. Children under 15 account for 14%. With a median age of 44.8, Meadows is older than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Meadows
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 11% of residents, more than in 89% of Canadian towns, and 1.3% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
19% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 53% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 9.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 11%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Meadows, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
A higher share of one-parent families than 67% of Canadian towns, at 9.4%
Private households by type and size.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
For Meadows, the census puts one-person households at 26%. One-parent families: 8.2% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. A household here has 2.4 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4.
Above 65% of Canadian towns: 51% of residents 15 and over are married
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Common-law partners make up 8.8%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. The usual figure: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of households in single-detached houses than 59% of Canadian towns, at 71%
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. Typically, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $94,600 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run high in Meadows: half had more than $94,600, 10% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Manitoba’s towns, half of households had more than $83,000 before tax. 21% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
16% of residents are immigrants
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (38%), then in Asia (32%). A year before the census, 11% lived somewhere else: more than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Just over a third of immigrants arrived from 2011 to 2021 (typical: 27%), and non-permanent residents make up a further 0.5% of residents.
More residents with no religion than 73% of Canadian towns: 42%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Meadows, just over one in ten residents belong to a visible minority. On religion, 54% answered Christian and 42% no religion, against 54% and 35% across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 82%, and 7.9% speak French as well
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
6.8% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.4% speak neither official language. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 1.8%.
Meadows ranks below 60% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 22%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 10%, against 9.5%. Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 62% of adults
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 62%.
Of 41 towns its size (3,741 to 3,903 people), the 20th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans Clareview Town Centre, youngest at 32.1, to Georgian Bay, oldest at 58.4. By median age, Meadows sits among Trend-Arlington (44.4), Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George (44.4), Pincher Creek (45.2) and Dixie (45.4).
No nearby town is as old as Meadows
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows | 3,822 | — | 44.8 | 19% | 16% |
| Radisson | 3,653 | 1.1 km | 40.2 | 16% | 14% |
| Grassie | 2,857 | 1.6 km | 38.5 | 12% | 29% |
| Victoria West | 3,687 | 1.7 km | 39.2 | 15% | 18% |
| Peguis | 11,177 | 2.3 km | 34.9 | 12% | 38% |
| Kildare-Redonda | 8,294 | 2.5 km | 41.2 | 21% | 13% |
| Mission Gardens | 3,979 | 2.5 km | 40.3 | 16% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past 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 Meadows’s residents
Is Meadows bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 92% only English, and French is the first language of 1.8%.
How diverse is Meadows?
16% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 12% belong to a visible minority and 11% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Meadows?
54% are Christian and 42% have no religion; 3.9% follow another religion.
Is Meadows good for families?
Under 15: 14% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 56% of households. One-parent families: 9.4%. Schools near Meadows are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Meadows?
The median household in Meadows took in $94,600 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Meadows?
The 2021 Census counted 3,822 people in Meadows.
What is the average age in Meadows?
A median age of 44.8, older than 66% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 14%, and people 65 and over 19%.
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).