Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of Beasley is under 34.2, younger than 93% of Canadian towns
By its share of immigrants (35%), Beasley is above 78% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 6,338 people lived here, in 2,820 households. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 14% in the neighbourhood. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are common here: 18%, more than in 90% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Beasley
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 81% of households, more than in 99% of Canadian towns, and 82% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Beasley’s residents are under 34.2 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 13% are under 15 and 13% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
Buildings of five storeys or more hold 50% of households, more than in 95% of Canadian towns, and 6.2% of homes are condos. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 47%, more than in 95% of Canadian towns, and 13% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 85% of Canadian towns, at 13%
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, 13% of residents are under 15 in Beasley. Measured more widely, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Beasley, 34.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 81 women for every 100 men.
47% of households are one person living alone, a share 95% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Shared houses stand out: 11% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 97% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. A household here holds 2 people on average. Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families is 8.2%; Beasley has 10%.
In Beasley, 23% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 97% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The share of common-law partners is 12%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Beasley sits above 99% of Canadian towns for renter households (81%)
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
Nearly one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%. Locally, 50% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. At 7.1%, the share of households in single-detached houses is lower than in 94% of Canadian towns.
Household income at the median: $47,400 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Beasley’s, at $47,400, is 45% lower. For Ontario’s towns, the median household income is $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 39% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
More residents without Canadian citizenship than 92% of Canadian towns: 21%
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 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Most recent wave: a third of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). Set beside that, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of visible minority residents than 80% of Canadian towns, at 44%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (22%) and Hindu (3.4%). For comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Few places have as many Indigenous residents: 3.8% here, more than in 61% of Canadian towns. On religion, 37% answered Christian and 34% no religion, against 54% and 35% across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 57%, and 7% speak French as well
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
Little separates the share of residents whose mother tongue is French here, 0.9%, from the figure across Canada’s towns. At home, 25% mostly speak another language; 5.2% speak neither English nor French.
In Beasley, 26% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 52% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 19%, beside a typical 9.5%. Measured more widely, 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; 13% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 6,240 to 6,439 people: this is the 4th youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The group spans The Orchards At Ellerslie, youngest at 31.3, to Peachland, oldest at 60. In age, Beasley keeps company with Grosvenor Park (32.9), Woodhill (34.1), Mission (34.8) and Greystone Heights (35.7).
Every neighbour of Beasley has an older population
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its 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. 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.
- 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
Questions about Beasley’s residents
What is the median income in Beasley?
$47,400 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Beasley (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Beasley?
Beasley had 6,338 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Beasley?
34.2 is the median age, younger than 93% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 13%. 65 and over: 13%.
Is Beasley bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 88% only English, and French is the first language of 0.9%.
How diverse is Beasley?
Immigrants make up 35% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 44% are members of a visible minority, and 3.8% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Beasley?
Christian: 37%. No religion: 34%. Another religion: 29%.
Is Beasley good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 13%. 27% of households are couple families and 10% one-parent families. Schools near Beasley are on its Schools page.
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).