Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 35.4: Windsor Park is younger than 89% of Canadian towns
57% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 13,044 people lived in Windsor Park, in 6,260 households. In Windsor Park, 37% of households are one person living alone. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are more common here than in 87% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Windsor Park
Younger than most towns
Line Windsor Park’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 35.4; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 15% are under 15 and 14% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
60% of households rent their home, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 56% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
18% of residents lived at another address a year before the census, 1.7 times the typical share; 50% moved within five years. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Windsor Park sits below 77% of Canadian towns for residents aged 65 and over (14%)
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns, against 15% in Windsor Park. Set beside that, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Windsor Park, 35.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women.
Windsor Park households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 86% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families tops just over four fifths of Canadian towns: 11%.
A smaller share of married residents 15 and over than 86% of Canadian towns: 31%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents 15 and over live common-law here. Single and never married: just over two in five adults, against a typical 27%.
Above 91% of Canadian towns: 60% of households rent their home
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
Nearly one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Across Windsor Park, 28% of households live in a single-detached house. The comparison figure for renter households is 25% across Canada’s towns.
$70,200 a year: the median household income
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
At $70,200, the middle household in Windsor Park earned 18% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Nova Scotia’s towns, the median household income is $69,100. The pandemic’s benefits: 31% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
In Windsor Park, 18% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 91% 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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (53%) and in Africa (21%). Windsor Park has more residents without Canadian citizenship than 72% of Canadian towns, at 11%. Across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are immigrants; locally, 14%.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 80% of Canadian towns: 46%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (5.3%) and Hindu (3.2%). At 26%, the share of visible minority residents is higher than in 63% of Canadian towns. Residents with no religion: 35% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. Indigenous residents are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 3.6%.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 68% of Canadian towns, at 13%
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, 9.1% mostly speak another language; 0.8% speak neither English nor French. Bilingual residents: 7.5% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. On residents whose mother tongue is French, 1.9% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Windsor Park ranks above 82% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 47%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 8.2% here, 9.5% in the typical town. On average, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 59% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 59%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
41 towns of 12,797 to 13,293 people: this is the 12th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans Thompson, youngest at 31, to Forest, oldest at 56.8. Next to Windsor Park on this scale come Regent Park (35.1), Deerfield (35.2), Rutherford (35.6) and Madoc (36.4).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Windsor Park
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | 13,044 | — | 35.4 | 14% | 14% |
| North End | 19,733 | 1.7 km | 33.3 | 14% | 14% |
| Fairview | 16,296 | 1.9 km | 36.1 | 14% | 22% |
| Westmount | 23,207 | 2.7 km | 40.4 | 20% | 14% |
| Austinville | 28,021 | 3.2 km | 41 | 18% | 9.2% |
| Mount Royale | 9,340 | 3.4 km | 39 | 21% | 20% |
| Schmidtville | 18,105 | 3.4 km | 29 | 13% | 15% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Nova Scotia’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Nova Scotia’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. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Windsor Park’s residents
What is the population of Windsor Park?
Windsor Park had 13,044 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Windsor Park?
The median age is 35.4, younger than 89% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 14% 65 or older.
Is Windsor Park bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 13% are. Another 0% speak only French and 86% only English, and French is the first language of 1.9%.
How diverse is Windsor Park?
Immigrants: 14% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 26%. Indigenous identity: 3.6%.
What religion are people in Windsor Park?
46% said they have no religion and 41% that they are Christian; 13% named another faith.
Is Windsor Park good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 37% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Windsor Park are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Windsor Park?
Half of Windsor Park’s households had more than $70,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).