Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0One-person households: 11%, a lower share than 96% of Canadian towns
In Falkirk East, just over one in ten households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 23%. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are common here: 15%, more than in 91% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 4,961 people lived in the neighbourhood, in 1,535 households.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 17% in Falkirk East, less than in 63% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 8.6% of residents. Lower than in 62% of Canadian towns: 15% of residents are under 15. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Falkirk East, 41.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women.
Bigger households than 93% of Canadian towns: 3.2 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The figure for one-parent families is 11% in Falkirk East and 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners: 5.1%, a lower share than 90% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 31% of adults, beside a typical 27%. In Falkirk East, 52% of residents 15 and over are married. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
Falkirk East ranks above 66% of Canadian towns on households in single-detached houses: 76%
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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: 27% date from 2001 or later, 2.5% from before 1961. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
$123,200 a year: where the middle household sits
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run high in Falkirk East: half had more than $123,200, 43% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Ontario’s towns, half of households had more than $91,600 before tax. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 29% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Immigrants: 35%, a higher share than 78% of Canadian towns
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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
Of the immigrants living here, 15% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Most immigrants were born in Asia (45%) or in Europe (33%). A year before the census, 11% lived somewhere else: fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns.
Falkirk East ranks above 70% of Canadian towns on visible minority residents: 33%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (8.6%). As a reference point, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 86% of Canadian towns: 0.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
English is the mother tongue of 60%, and 5.1% speak French as well
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
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, 0.6%, from the figure across Canada’s towns. 16% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2% speak neither official language. Bilingual residents are rarer here than in 73% of Canadian towns.
Falkirk East ranks above 69% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 38%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 7.4% here, 9.5% in the typical town. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 57% of residents aged 15 and over
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
57% of residents 15 and over have a job, in line with the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 4,867 to 5,063 people, the 20th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The youngest is Westdale South (31.1) and the oldest Northern Bruce Peninsula (61.6). Next to Falkirk East on this scale come Anthony Henday South East (41.5), Meinzinger Park-Lakeside (41.6), Edenwold No. 158 (42.4) and Tyendinaga (42.4).
Falkirk East and its 6 nearest towns: 1 of them are older
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
- 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. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Falkirk East’s residents
What religion are people in Falkirk East?
23% said they have no religion and 66% that they are Christian; 12% named another faith.
Is Falkirk East good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 65% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Falkirk East are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Falkirk East?
Half of Falkirk East’s households had more than $123,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Falkirk East?
4,961, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Falkirk East alone.
What is the average age in Falkirk East?
The median age is 41.8, younger than 52% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 17% 65 or older.
Is Falkirk East bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.1% are. Another 0% speak only French and 92% only English, and French is the first language of 0.6%.
How diverse is Falkirk East?
Immigrants: 35% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 33%. Indigenous identity: 0.7%.
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).