30% of residents are 65 or over, a share 92% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Where 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns, Rivergrove has 13%. Census figures put Indigenous residents at 9.6% here. Nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone, a lower share than in 66% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 2,742 people lived locally, in 965 households.
What stands out about the people of Rivergrove
Older than most towns
Line Rivergrove’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 50.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 30% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 50.2: Rivergrove is older than 86% of Canadian towns
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.
The largest age band is 85+: 8.9% of residents, 4.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. Here, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Rivergrove, 50.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Bigger households than 61% of Canadian towns: 2.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Rivergrove, 7.8% of households are one-parent families.
A lower share of common-law partners than 78% of Canadian towns, at 7.3%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 23% of adults (typical: 27%). Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%. On the census count, nearly half of residents 15 and over are married.
Households in single-detached houses: 54%, a lower share than 63% of Canadian towns
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
Renter households: 31% here and 25% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Household income at the median: $99,500 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Rivergrove’s, at $99,500, is 16% higher. Across Manitoba’s towns, half of households had more than $83,000 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 22% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 16% in Rivergrove, more than in 82% 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
Most immigrants were born in Asia (47%) or in Europe (45%). As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are nearly a fifth of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1% of residents.
Residents with no religion make up 31% in Rivergrove, less than in 63% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Sikh (3.7%). To put it in context, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Against a figure of 15% across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents in Rivergrove comes in at 22%.
73% have English as their mother tongue; 6.8% also speak French
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
At home, 8.9% mostly speak another language; 1.1% speak neither English nor French. Few places have so few residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.7% here, fewer than in 86% of Canadian towns.
Above 60% of Canadian towns: 33% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 11% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.
In work on census day: 63% of adults
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
More people work here than in the typical town: 63%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Ranked by age, 13th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Cultus Lake is the oldest at 56.8, Waskaganish the youngest at 25. In age, Rivergrove keeps company with Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part (48.8), Holyrood (49.2), Musquodoboit Harbour (50.9) and Front of Yonge (51.6).
Median age: 1 of the 6 towns around Rivergrove are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivergrove | 2,742 | — | 50.2 | 30% | 22% |
| Riverbend | 5,453 | 0.5 km | 38.5 | 9.6% | 24% |
| Valhalla | 3,153 | 0.8 km | 66 | 52% | 21% |
| River East | 7,774 | 2.1 km | 47.9 | 27% | 15% |
| Rossmere-A | 13,613 | 2.2 km | 39.3 | 21% | 24% |
| Kildonan Drive | 5,063 | 2.2 km | 48.2 | 27% | 14% |
| Seven Oaks | 3,244 | 2.9 km | 40.3 | 16% | 19% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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. 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. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
Questions about Rivergrove’s residents
What is the average age in Rivergrove?
50.2 is the median age, older than 86% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 13%. 65 and over: 30%.
Is Rivergrove bilingual?
6.8% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 92% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.7%.
How diverse is Rivergrove?
Immigrants make up 22% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 22% are members of a visible minority, and 9.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Rivergrove?
Christian: 63%. No religion: 31%. Another religion: 5.9%.
Is Rivergrove good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 13%. 60% of households are couple families and 7.8% one-parent families. Schools near Rivergrove are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rivergrove?
$99,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Rivergrove (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Rivergrove?
The 2021 Census counted 2,742 people in Rivergrove.
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).