Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0A higher share of households in single-detached houses than 99% of Canadian towns, at 99%
In Adelaide-Metcalfe, 6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across Canada’s towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 3,196 for July 2025. The share of one-person households stands at 14%. Children under 15 are more common here than in 83% of Canadian towns.
+1% since 2016: slower than 72% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Ontario’s towns, +6%.
Half of Adelaide-Metcalfe is over 43.2, older than 57% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 55–59: nearly one in ten residents. The highest share aged 65 or over among Ontario’s towns is Northern Bruce Peninsula’s: 41%. Residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Adelaide-Metcalfe, 43.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women.
Adelaide-Metcalfe households average 2.9 people, larger than in 87% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 4.9%, below 93% of Canadian towns.
59% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 93% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Here 7.9% of residents 15 and over live common-law, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. Just over a fifth of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%).
In Adelaide-Metcalfe, 18% of households rent their home, fewer than in 66% of Canadian towns
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
35% of homes were built before 1961 and 19% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. Renter households: 25% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
A median household income of $105,000 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Adelaide-Metcalfe’s, at $105,000, is 22% higher. $91,600 is the median household income across Ontario’s towns. In 2020, 20% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
10% of residents are immigrants
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 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
2.2% of residents are not Canadian citizens; across Canada’s towns the figure is 5.8%. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (83%), then in the Americas (10%).
32% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 61% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Here 1.4% of residents belong to a visible minority, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 15%. The usual figure: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. 1% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
English is the mother tongue of 90%, and 3.3% speak French as well
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
The share of bilingual residents trails 92% of Canadian towns: 3.3%. At home: English 98%, French 0.2%.
Adelaide-Metcalfe ranks below 91% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 12%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Adelaide-Metcalfe, 12%, and 45% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%).
In work on census day: 69% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 69%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
The 20th oldest of 41 towns of 3,142 to 3,247 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages climb from 31.7 (Crystallina Nera West) to 66 (Valhalla) across the group. The closest ages to Adelaide-Metcalfe’s belong to Beaumont (43.2), Marathon (43.2), Rosslyn (43.9) and Sturgeon Creek (44.1).
Adelaide-Metcalfe is younger than 1 of its 2 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Ontario’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
Questions about Adelaide-Metcalfe’s residents
Is Adelaide-Metcalfe good for families?
Children under 15 are 20% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 73% of households and one-parent families 4.9%. Schools near Adelaide-Metcalfe are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Adelaide-Metcalfe?
Median total household income in Adelaide-Metcalfe was $105,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Adelaide-Metcalfe?
The latest figure is an estimate: 3,196 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Adelaide-Metcalfe counted 3,011, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Adelaide-Metcalfe?
Half the residents are older than 43.2 and half younger, older than 57% of Canadian towns; 20% are children under 15 and 19% are 65 or over.
Is Adelaide-Metcalfe bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 3.3% are. Another 0% speak only French and 97% only English, and French is the first language of 0.5%.
How diverse is Adelaide-Metcalfe?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 10%. A visible minority makes up 1.4% and Indigenous residents 1%.
What religion are people in Adelaide-Metcalfe?
Most often Christian (68%) or no religion (32%); other religions make up 0.5%.
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).