Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0Above 92% of Canadian towns: 49% of residents are immigrants
Set against 64% across Canada’s towns, 96% of households live in a single-detached house in Robertson. Higher than in 86% of Canadian towns: 9.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity. The neighbourhood counted 5,090 residents and 1,735 households at the 2021 Census. Residents aged 65 and over: 13% of the total.
What stands out about the people of Robertson
More immigrants than most towns
49% of residents are immigrants, against 18% across Manitoba’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (90%) or in Europe (7.6%); 38% of them arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A mix of backgrounds
Visible minority residents make up 58%, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and immigrants 49%. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More residents aged 15 to 24 than 91% of Canadian towns: 15%
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The median age in Robertson is 39.6, lower than in nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. On average, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.7% of residents. 13% of Robertson is 65 or over, against 17% across Manitoba’s towns and 19% across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Robertson, 39.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Robertson households average 2.9 people, larger than in 88% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-person households is 21%, against 27% across Canada’s towns. One-parent families: nearly a tenth of the total.
A smaller share of common-law partners than 71% of Canadian towns: 8.2%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Just over a third of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law.
Fewer renter households than 94% of Canadian towns: 8.2%
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. On average, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $91,200 a year
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
Household incomes run high in Robertson: half had more than $91,200, 6% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Manitoba’s towns, the household in the middle had $83,000. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 33% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 91% of Canadian towns: 6.9%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 60%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 11%, against 5.8% across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (90%) or in Europe (7.6%).
A larger share of visible minority residents than 90% of Canadian towns: 58%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Nearly a quarter of residents said they have no religion; across Canada’s towns the figure is 35%. The share of visible minority residents across Canada’s towns is 15%.
50% have a mother tongue other than English or French
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
At home, 26% mostly speak another language; 0.8% speak neither English nor French. On bilingual residents, Robertson sits lower than 94% of Canadian towns: 3%. Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 0.4%, against 1.5% across Canada’s towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 28%, a higher share than 52% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 9.8% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
65% of residents 15 and over were in work
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
More people work here than in the typical town: 65%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (5,007 to 5,174 people), the 14th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 31.6 in River-Osborne to 61.6 in Northern Bruce Peninsula. The closest ages to Robertson’s belong to Shaughnessy Park (38.4), Lemoyne (39.3), Montréal-Est (40.4) and Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (40.4).
Robertson is younger than 1 of its 6 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robertson | 5,090 | — | 39.6 | 13% | 49% |
| Inkster-Faraday | 3,700 | 0.7 km | 38.1 | 13% | 40% |
| Burrows Central | 5,565 | 1.0 km | 37.6 | 11% | 49% |
| Shaughnessy Park | 5,169 | 1.2 km | 38.4 | 14% | 59% |
| Leila-McPhillips Triangle | 3,824 | 1.6 km | 39 | 20% | 46% |
| Garden City | 6,794 | 1.6 km | 42.4 | 20% | 41% |
| St. John's | 8,492 | 1.8 km | 35.6 | 11% | 22% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Robertson’s residents
What is the average age in Robertson?
Half the residents are older than 39.6 and half younger, younger than 66% of Canadian towns; 17% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
Is Robertson bilingual?
3% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 97% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.4%.
How diverse is Robertson?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 49%. A visible minority makes up 58% and Indigenous residents 9.7%.
What religion are people in Robertson?
Most often Christian (75%) or no religion (23%); other religions make up 2.8%.
Is Robertson good for families?
Children under 15 are 17% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 54% of households and one-parent families 8.1%. Schools near Robertson are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Robertson?
Median total household income in Robertson was $91,200 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Robertson?
5,090, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Robertson alone.
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).