Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 50: Almonte is older than 85% of Canadian towns
Where a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns, Almonte has 17%. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 16,073 residents; the 2021 Census found 6,040 households. For Almonte, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.9%. Fewer residents without Canadian citizenship than in 78% of Canadian towns: 1.8%. Every figure here is for Mississippi Mills as a whole, the municipality Almonte belongs to.
What stands out about the people of Almonte
Older than most towns
Almonte’s median age is 50; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 27% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Growing faster than most
Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, Almonte went from 13,163 to 14,740 residents (+12%), faster growth than in 87% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A +12% change since 2016: faster than 87% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +6% across Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 9% higher again.
Almonte sits above 85% of Canadian towns for residents aged 65 and over (27%)
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Where 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns, Almonte has 15%. Elsewhere, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Almonte, 50. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
Almonte ranks below 61% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 24%
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Almonte the average household is 2.4 people, beside 2.4 across Canada’s towns. For one-person households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 27%. Here, 6.6% of households are one-parent families.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 76% of Canadian towns: 54%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
20% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Across Almonte, 12% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Almonte ranks above 69% of Canadian towns on households in single-detached houses: 77%
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
Newer homes outnumber old: 32% date from 2001 or later, 27% from before 1961. Higher than in nearly two thirds of Canadian towns: 2.3% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. Measured more widely, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $100,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. 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; Almonte’s, at $100,000, is 16% higher. For Ontario’s towns, the median household income is $91,600. Pandemic benefits reached 20% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Almonte ranks below 63% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 9.7%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
7.4% of residents are immigrants, against 17% across Canada’s towns. The usual figure: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
In Almonte, 4% of residents have an Indigenous identity, more than in 62% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
3% of residents belong to a visible minority (Canada’s towns: 15%). The usual figure: 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns. Census figures put residents with no religion at 35% in Almonte.
Bilingual residents make up 18% in Almonte, more than in 72% of Canadian towns
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
1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, against 4% in Almonte. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 52% of Canadian towns: 28%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 5.2%, beside a typical 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 56% of residents aged 15 and over
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.
At 56%, the share in work is about the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 4th of 41 towns of 15,686 to 16,453 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
They run from Evergreen, at 32.8, to Vieux-Moulin, at 54.3. Severn (49.6), Hillcrest Village (49.7), Tracadie (52) and Comox (52.4): the towns nearest Almonte in median age.
Almonte is older than every town around it
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almonte | 16,073 | — | 50 | 27% | 7.4% |
| Corkery | 3,822 | 10.1 km | 43.4 | 15% | 10% |
| Carleton Place | 14,837 | 11.4 km | 41.6 | 21% | 7.9% |
| Beckwith | 10,073 | 14.9 km | 44.4 | 16% | 7% |
| Kinburn | 2,639 | 17.2 km | 45.2 | 18% | 5.6% |
| Carp | 5,621 | 18.5 km | 45.4 | 19% | 13% |
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 Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, and over all Canadian towns of that size (whole cities and First Nations reserves left out). Percentiles are within Canada only.
- 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 Almonte’s residents
Is Almonte bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 18% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 82% only English, and French is the first language of 4%.
How diverse is Almonte?
Immigrants: 7.4% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 3%. Indigenous identity: 4%.
What religion are people in Almonte?
35% said they have no religion and 63% that they are Christian; 1.9% named another faith.
Is Almonte good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 62% of households and one-parent families 6.6%. Schools near Almonte are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Almonte?
Half of Almonte’s households had more than $100,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Almonte?
About 16,073, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 14,740 people in Almonte, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Almonte?
The median age is 50, older than 85% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 27% 65 or older.
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).