Photo: misterjerk2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Upper Tantallon: 96% of households live in a single-detached house, above 98% of Canadian towns
Compared with 19% across Canada’s towns, 13% of residents are 65 or over here. Upper Tantallon had 5,248 residents in 1,845 households at the 2021 Census. Children under 15 account for 21%. On one-person households, Upper Tantallon sits lower than 89% of Canadian towns: 16%.
13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 81% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The median age in Upper Tantallon is 41.4, lower than in 54% of Canadian towns. To put it in context, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. No age band is larger than 45–49: one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Upper Tantallon, 41.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 84% of Canadian towns: 2.9 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families is 6.5%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Upper Tantallon: 58% of residents 15 and over are married, above 89% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Common-law partners make up 8.9%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. Set beside that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Below 88% of Canadian towns: 11% of households rent their home
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 53% date from 2001 or later, 16% from before 1961. Across the comparison, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
$129,300 a year: where the middle household sits
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Upper Tantallon’s households had a total income above $129,300, 50% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Nova Scotia’s towns, the median household income is $69,100. 21% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
9.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 69% 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 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 41% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. To put it in context, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 7.3% of residents are immigrants. 2.3% of residents are not Canadian citizens, fewer than in 72% of Canadian towns.
Upper Tantallon: 42% of residents said they have no religion, above 70% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents: 6.4% here and 15% across Canada’s towns. The wider picture: 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. In Upper Tantallon, 3.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Upper Tantallon: 16% of residents speak English and French, above 71% of Canadian towns
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
There is little gap on residents whose mother tongue is French: 2.1%, about the same as across Canada’s towns. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns. At home: English 97%, French 0.4%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 44%, a higher share than 78% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 3.4% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
In work on census day: 65% of adults
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 65%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Ranked by age, 19th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Oliver is the oldest at 58, Rundle Heights the youngest at 32.9. Uplands (40.3), Saint-Denis-de-Brompton (41.2), Antigonish (42) and Montréal-Ouest (43.2): the towns nearest Upper Tantallon in median age.
3 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Upper Tantallon
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Tantallon | 5,248 | — | 41.4 | 13% | 7.3% |
| Head of St Margarets Bay | 2,885 | 3.9 km | 50.8 | 26% | 10% |
| Hubley | 6,337 | 4.8 km | 46.4 | 19% | 6% |
| Hammonds Plains | 13,844 | 8.1 km | 42 | 12% | 7.8% |
| Timberlea | 11,014 | 13.3 km | 38.6 | 9.9% | 12% |
| Middle Sackville | 14,898 | 15.4 km | 39.9 | 13% | 5.5% |
| Bedford | 28,848 | 15.7 km | 41.3 | 19% | 19% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 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.
- 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.
Questions about Upper Tantallon’s residents
Is Upper Tantallon good for families?
21% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 68% of households and one-parent families 6.5%. Schools near Upper Tantallon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Upper Tantallon?
Half of Upper Tantallon’s households had more than $129,300 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Upper Tantallon?
5,248, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Upper Tantallon alone.
What is the average age in Upper Tantallon?
The median age is 41.4, younger than 54% of Canadian towns. 21% are under 15 and 13% 65 or older.
Is Upper Tantallon bilingual?
16% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 84% English only. French is the mother tongue of 2.1%.
How diverse is Upper Tantallon?
Immigrants: 7.3% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 6.4%. Indigenous identity: 3.4%.
What religion are people in Upper Tantallon?
42% said they have no religion and 57% that they are Christian; 1.5% named another faith.
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).