Photo: Drozwik Drones · CC BY 3.0In Bowmanville, 18% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 82% of Canadian towns
Children under 15: 19%, above 80% of Canadian towns. Here, 14% of households rent their home. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 70% of Canadian towns. With about 114,180 residents in July 2025, Bowmanville counted 35,950 households at the 2021 Census. Statistics Canada counts Bowmanville as part of Clarington: the figures on this page are the municipality’s.
From 2016 to 2021, Bowmanville outgrew 82% of Canadian towns: +10%
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
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +6% across Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 13% higher again.
Half of Bowmanville is under 39.2, younger than 69% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
More residents are 35–39 than any other five-year age: 7.7% of residents. Residents aged 15 to 24 are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bowmanville, 39.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Bowmanville households average 2.8 people, larger than in 82% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
There is little gap on one-parent families: 9.1%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
Above 68% of Canadian towns: 52% of residents 15 and over are married
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
A quarter of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Locally, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law.
Households in single-detached houses: 78%, a higher share than 69% of Canadian towns
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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: 37% date from 2001 or later, 13% from before 1961. 1.5% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, a higher share than in 63% of Canadian towns. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%.
Household income at the median: $112,000 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 middle household in Bowmanville had $112,000 before tax, 30% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Ontario’s towns, the median household income is $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 28% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year: 10%, a lower share than 60% of Canadian towns
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Most recent wave: 18% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (40%), then in Asia (33%). Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 65% of Canadian towns. As a yardstick, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Residents with no religion make up 40% in Bowmanville, more than in 65% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (2.9%) and Hindu (2%). Across Canada’s towns, residents with no religion come to 35%. Compared with 15% across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents belong to a visible minority here.
English is the mother tongue of 87%, and 7.5% speak French as well
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 94%, French 0.5%. Little separates the share of residents whose mother tongue is French here, 1.4%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
In Bowmanville, 25% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 55% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 6.6%, beside a typical 9.5%. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 60%
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 60%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
Among 41 towns of 81,813 to 157,345 people, the 8th youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Median ages here range from 35.6 in Airdrie to 51.6 in Lindsay. Red Deer (38.8), Prince George (38.8), Chilliwack (40.4) and New Westminster (40.4): the towns nearest Bowmanville in median age.
Nearby, 2 of 4 towns have older populations than Bowmanville
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page. Distances here run 13–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Bowmanville.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmanville | 114,180 | — | 39.2 | 15% | 15% |
| Oshawa | 213,592 | 12.7 km | 39.2 | 17% | 22% |
| Whitby | 162,413 | 19.8 km | 40 | 15% | 28% |
| Ajax | 141,111 | 27.3 km | 38.4 | 13% | 42% |
| Port Perry | 23,928 | 28.8 km | 49.2 | 24% | 11% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Ontario’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.
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
Questions about Bowmanville’s residents
Is Bowmanville bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.5% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 92% only English, and French is the first language of 1.4%.
How diverse is Bowmanville?
Immigrants: 15% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 17%. Indigenous identity: 2.6%.
What religion are people in Bowmanville?
40% said they have no religion and 54% that they are Christian; 6.1% named another faith.
Is Bowmanville good for families?
19% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 61% of households and one-parent families 9.1%. Schools near Bowmanville are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bowmanville?
Half of Bowmanville’s households had more than $112,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Bowmanville?
About 114,180, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 101,427 people in Bowmanville, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bowmanville?
The median age is 39.2, younger than 69% of Canadian towns. 19% are under 15 and 15% 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).