Photo: André Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 2.0More Indigenous residents than 98% of Canadian towns: 25%
With residents who moved in within the year at 5.1%, Argyle is behind 99% of Canadian towns on that count. 96% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 97% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 8,216 for July 2025. The census found that 13% of residents are under 15 locally.
What stands out about the people of Argyle
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 25% of residents, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, and 0.8% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
A bilingual town
Both official languages: 57% of residents speak English and French, more than in 93% of Canadian towns. Another 0.4% speak only French and 42% only English. English & French ↓
Older than most towns
Argyle’s median age is 51.6; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 27% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 93% of Canadian towns, at 57%
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. 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: English 72%, French 25%. Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French. Higher than in four fifths of Canadian towns: 38% of residents have French as their mother tongue.
Slower than most: ±0% since 2016, behind 80% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 4%.
Older than 89% of Canadian towns: half of Argyle is over 51.6
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Where 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, Argyle has 27%. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 9.8%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Argyle, 51.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Households here average 2.3 people, below 64% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
6.8% of households are one-parent families; across Canada’s towns the figure is 8.2%. Across Argyle, 25% of households are one person living alone.
Above 78% of Canadian towns: 55% 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
21% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). The wider picture: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: just over a tenth of the total.
Only 8.7% of households rent their home in Argyle
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. Set beside that, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. 37% of homes were built before 1961 and 9.5% in 2001 or later.
$71,500 a year: the median household income
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Argyle’s households had a total income below $71,500, 17% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Nova Scotia’s towns the median is $69,100. 26% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
1.6% 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 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The share of residents without Canadian citizenship trails 94% of Canadian towns: 0.7%. What’s more, on immigrants, Argyle sits lower than 95% of Canadian towns: 1.6%.
Only 28% of residents said they have no religion in Argyle
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents make up 1.2%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Residents with no religion: 35% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Argyle ranks below 87% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 14%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 20%, against 9.5%. By way of comparison, 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
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 27% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 51% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (8,093 to 8,345 people), the 4th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is South Pointe (30.5), at the other Haliburton Village (59.2). Nearest to Argyle in age: Alnwick/Haldimand (49.6), Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est (50.8), Bayfield (52) and La Malbaie (54).
No nearby town is as old as Argyle
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Nova Scotia’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
Questions about Argyle’s residents
Is Argyle bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 57% are. Another 0.4% speak only French and 42% only English, and French is the first language of 38%.
How diverse is Argyle?
Immigrants make up 1.6% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 1.2% are members of a visible minority, and 25% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Argyle?
Christian: 72%. No religion: 28%. Another religion: 0.6%.
Is Argyle good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 13%. 63% of households are couple families and 6.8% one-parent families. Schools near Argyle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Argyle?
$71,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Argyle (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Argyle?
Statistics Canada estimates 8,216 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 7,870 in Argyle, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Argyle?
51.6 is the median age, older than 89% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 13%. 65 and over: 27%.
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).