Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0A median age of 59.6: Frontenac Islands is older than 99% of Canadian towns
Children under 15: 8.8% here and 16% across Canada’s towns. Statistics Canada puts Frontenac Islands’s population at 1,963 for July 2025. On the census count, 98% of households live in a single-detached house. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in 95% of Canadian towns: 6.3%.
What stands out about the people of Frontenac Islands
Older than most towns
Line Frontenac Islands’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 59.6; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 37% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
+10% since 2016, a pace 80% of Canadian towns didn’t match
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Ontario’s towns +6%. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 2% higher again.
In Frontenac Islands, 37% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
60–64 is the most common age band: 12% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 88% of Canadian towns: 8.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24. To put it in context, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women.
Smaller households than 83% of Canadian towns: 2.1 people on average
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.
Against a figure of 8.2% across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families in Frontenac Islands comes in at 6.1%. Locally, just over a quarter of households are one person living alone.
Above 86% of Canadian towns: 57% of residents 15 and over are married
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
18% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). The share of common-law partners stands at 10%. Measured more widely, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
A smaller share of renter households than 95% of Canadian towns: 7.2%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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
28% of homes were built before 1961 and 24% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. On average, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Households here have a median income of $90,000 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
Household incomes sit at the middle in Frontenac Islands: half had more than $90,000, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $91,600, the median across Ontario’s towns. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 19% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
9.3% of residents are immigrants
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship: 1%, below 89% of Canadian towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (72%), then in the Americas (25%). Fewer immigrants than in 66% of Canadian towns: 9.3%.
Frontenac Islands ranks below 66% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 30%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, against 1.3% in Frontenac Islands. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%. Locally, 1% of residents belong to a visible minority.
In Frontenac Islands, 11% of residents speak English and French, more than in 63% of Canadian towns
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Against a figure of 1.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French in Frontenac Islands comes in at 2.6%. At home: English 99%, French 0.8%. Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French.
In Frontenac Islands, 33% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 61% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 3.3%, beside a typical 9.5%. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 47% of adults
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 47% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 37% of residents are 65 or over.
No nearby town is as old as Frontenac Islands
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page. Distances here run 15–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Frontenac Islands.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac Islands | 1,963 | — | 59.6 | 37% | 9.3% |
| Kingston | 149,527 | 15.0 km | 41.2 | 21% | 14% |
| Gananoque | 5,568 | 20.3 km | 53.2 | 30% | 7.6% |
| Loyalist | 19,761 | 26.9 km | 45.2 | 22% | 8.2% |
| South Frontenac | 21,599 | 29.9 km | 48.8 | 22% | 5.9% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Ontario’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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Frontenac Islands’s residents
What is the average age in Frontenac Islands?
A median age of 59.6. Children under 15 make up 8.8%, and people 65 and over 37%.
Is Frontenac Islands bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 11% are. Another 0% speak only French and 89% only English, and French is the first language of 2.6%.
How diverse is Frontenac Islands?
9.3% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 1% belong to a visible minority and 1.3% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Frontenac Islands?
68% are Christian and 30% have no religion; 2.3% follow another religion.
Is Frontenac Islands good for families?
Under 15: 8.8% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 61% of households. One-parent families: 6.1%. Schools near Frontenac Islands are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Frontenac Islands?
The median household in Frontenac Islands took in $90,000 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Frontenac Islands?
Frontenac Islands had about 1,963 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 1,930, 10% more than 2016.
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).