Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFewer renter households than 94% of Canadian towns: 7.8%
By its share of one-person households (20%), Dutch Settlement is below 77% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood had 6,234 residents in 2,505 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.8% locally. With a median age of 45.4, Dutch Settlement is older than 70% of Canadian towns.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 62% of Canadian towns, at 17%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 9.4% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 19% of residents are 65 or over. The census found that 16% of residents are under 15 in Dutch Settlement.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Dutch Settlement, 45.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Dutch Settlement households average 2.5 people, larger than in 54% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
With one-parent families at 7%, Dutch Settlement is behind 70% of Canadian towns on that count.
Dutch Settlement: 15% of residents 15 and over live common-law, above 75% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
In Dutch Settlement, 54% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 46% across Canada’s towns. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Dutch Settlement sits above 86% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (88%)
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
Just over a quarter of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 17% built before 1961. On average, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Nothing unusual on households in buildings of five or more storeys: 0.2%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Half of households earn more than $103,800 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Dutch Settlement’s households had a total income above $103,800, 21% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Nova Scotia’s towns have a median of $69,100. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 23% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
6.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 94% of Canadian towns
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
Across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are immigrants; in Dutch Settlement, 4.2%. Locally, 1.3% of residents are not Canadian citizens. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Above 71% of Canadian towns: 42% of residents said they have no religion
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, Dutch Settlement has 3.8%. Residents with no religion: 35% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. Census figures put visible minority residents at 3.9% locally.
Above 58% of Canadian towns: 9% of residents speak English and 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: English 99%, French 0.2%. The usual figure: 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 1.8%.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 52% of Canadian towns: 28%
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%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 59% 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.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 59%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 11th of 41 towns of 6,124 to 6,344 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans The Orchards At Ellerslie, youngest at 31.3, to Peachland, oldest at 60. By median age, Dutch Settlement sits among Beauceville (45.2), Vegreville (45.2), Woodstock (45.6) and Electoral Area A, Cariboo (46.4).
No nearby town is as old as Dutch Settlement
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Settlement | 6,234 | — | 45.4 | 17% | 4.2% |
| Fall River | 9,214 | 9.1 km | 42.9 | 13% | 8.4% |
| Beaver Bank | 9,157 | 10.6 km | 42 | 15% | 4.2% |
| Enfield | 26,960 | 15.7 km | 44.4 | 18% | 3.5% |
| Lower Sackville | 20,171 | 15.9 km | 43.6 | 19% | 4.7% |
| Middle Sackville | 14,898 | 16.4 km | 39.9 | 13% | 5.5% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Nova Scotia’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Dutch Settlement’s residents
Is Dutch Settlement good for families?
Under 15: 16% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 65% of households. One-parent families: 7%. Schools near Dutch Settlement are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Dutch Settlement?
The median household in Dutch Settlement took in $103,800 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Dutch Settlement?
Dutch Settlement had 6,234 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Dutch Settlement?
A median age of 45.4, older than 70% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 16%, and people 65 and over 17%.
Is Dutch Settlement bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.8%.
How diverse is Dutch Settlement?
4.2% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 3.9% belong to a visible minority and 3.8% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Dutch Settlement?
57% are Christian and 42% have no religion; 1% follow another religion.
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).