Photo: Nhl4hamilton (Rick Cordeiro) · Public domainAbove 99% of Canadian towns: 82% of households rent their home
Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%; Corktown has 46%. On the census count, nearly a quarter of residents are not Canadian citizens. 33% of residents are immigrants, a higher share than in 76% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 8,952 people lived in the neighbourhood, in 4,830 households.
What stands out about the people of Corktown
A neighbourhood of renters
82% of households rent their home, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 91% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
A neighbourhood of high-rises
Buildings of five storeys or more hold 73% of households, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, and 20% of homes are condos. Homes ↓
Younger than most towns
Line Corktown’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 34.6; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 12% are under 15 and 12% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 51%, more than in 97% of Canadian towns, and 12% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Younger than 92% of Canadian towns: half of Corktown is under 34.6
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
The biggest five-year age group is 25–29, with 15% of residents, 2.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. Here, 12% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Corktown, 34.6. 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.
Corktown: 51% of households are one person living alone, above 97% of Canadian towns
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.
Shared houses stand out: nearly one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 95% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-person households is 27%. Households average 1.8 people. One-parent families are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 8.5%.
Corktown sits below 94% of Canadian towns for married residents 15 and over (27%)
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
In Corktown, 12% of residents 15 and over live common-law, beside 11% across Canada’s towns. Never married and not common-law: 44% of adults (typical: 27%).
A larger share of households in buildings of five or more storeys than 98% of Canadian towns: 73%
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
64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns, against 4.5% in Corktown. Older homes outnumber new: 29% predate 1961, 9.4% date from 2001 or later.
Before tax, the median household income is $51,900 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Corktown’s, at $51,900, is 40% lower. The middle household across Ontario’s towns has $91,600 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 35% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
A larger share of residents who moved in within the year than 94% of Canadian towns: 20%
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
44% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (48%), then in Europe (21%).
Corktown: 36% of residents said they have no religion, above 53% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (13%) and Hindu (7%). The usual figure: 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. On Indigenous residents, 2.1% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 61%, and 6.2% 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
At home: English 75%, French 0.5%. Against a figure of 7.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents in Corktown comes in at 6.2%.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 63% of Canadian towns: 34%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 14%, 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.
Employment: 55% of residents 15 and over had a job
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 55%; 12% of residents are 65 or over.
Among 41 towns of 8,744 to 9,167 people, the 2nd youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Median ages here range from 32.3 in Hampton Village to 52 in Pictou County, Subdivision C. Hampton Village (32.3), Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval (34.8) and Clayton Heights (35): the towns nearest Corktown in median age.
Nearby, 5 of 6 towns have older populations than Corktown
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Corktown’s residents
What is the average age in Corktown?
The median age is 34.6, younger than 92% of Canadian towns. 12% are under 15 and 12% 65 or older.
Is Corktown bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.2% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.6%.
How diverse is Corktown?
Immigrants: 33% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 46%. Indigenous identity: 2.1%.
What religion are people in Corktown?
36% said they have no religion and 40% that they are Christian; 24% named another faith.
Is Corktown good for families?
12% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 28% of households and one-parent families 8.5%. Schools near Corktown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Corktown?
Half of Corktown’s households had more than $51,900 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Corktown?
Corktown had 8,952 residents at the 2021 Census.
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).