Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 50: Miramichi is older than 85% of Canadian towns
Recent arrivals are just over two in five immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. About 19,402 people lived in Miramichi in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates. Here, 21% of residents said they have no religion. Compared with other places, children under 15 are scarce here: 13%, fewer than in 78% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Miramichi
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Miramichi is 50; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 28% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Slower growth than 71% of Canadian towns: Miramichi changed by +1% since 2016
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across New Brunswick’s towns +3%. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 10%.
Above 88% of Canadian towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.8% here and 11% across Canada’s towns. Typically, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Miramichi, 50. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households make up 33% in Miramichi, more than in 73% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against New Brunswick’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. One-parent families account for 10%. Elsewhere, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
9% of residents 15 and over live common-law, below 65% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 26% of adults, beside a typical 27%. In Miramichi, 46% of residents 15 and over are married. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
More renter households than 60% of Canadian towns: 30%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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
64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns, against 68% in Miramichi. Across the comparison, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 29% predate 1961, 12% date from 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Median household income: $66,000 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
Miramichi’s median household took in $66,000 before tax, 23% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across New Brunswick’s towns has $73,300 before tax. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 24% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 65% of Canadian towns: 9.5%
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants: 3.8% here and 17% across Canada’s towns. Here, 2.4% of residents are not Canadian citizens. Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%.
Above 69% of Canadian towns: 4.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
By its share of visible minority residents (3.6%), Miramichi is below nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, Indigenous residents come to 2.8%.
Miramichi ranks above 75% of Canadian towns on residents whose mother tongue is French: 8%
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Against a figure of 7.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents in Miramichi comes in at 19%. Measured more widely, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns.
22% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, below 62% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
7.5% have no certificate, diploma or degree (typical: 9.5%). On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 51% of residents aged 15 and over
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 51%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
Among 41 towns of 18,885 to 19,953 people, the 1st oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
They run from Mitchell, at 28.8, to Miramichi, at 50. Nearest to Miramichi in age: Port Alberni (49.2) and Midland (50).
Among its 5 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Miramichi
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page. Distances here run 13–26 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Miramichi.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Against New Brunswick’s towns and Canada’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over New Brunswick’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.
- 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.
Questions about Miramichi’s residents
Is Miramichi good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 13%. 48% of households are couple families and 10% one-parent families. Schools near Miramichi are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Miramichi?
$66,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Miramichi (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Miramichi?
Statistics Canada estimates 19,402 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 17,692 in Miramichi, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Miramichi?
50 is the median age, older than 85% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 13%. 65 and over: 28%.
Is Miramichi bilingual?
English and French: 19% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 80%. French only: 0.4%. French mother tongue: 8%.
How diverse is Miramichi?
Immigrants make up 3.8% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 3.6% are members of a visible minority, and 4.9% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Miramichi?
Christian: 78%. No religion: 21%. Another religion: 1.2%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).