Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0A lower share of renter households than 89% of Canadian towns, at 10%
Of the immigrants living here, 6.9% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. The 2021 Census counted 2,724 residents in 920 households. Census figures put one-person households at 16% in Freelton. Half of the neighbourhood’s residents are over 45.7, older than in 71% of Canadian towns.
Above 73% of Canadian towns: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 60–64: nearly one in ten residents. As a yardstick, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. Among Ontario’s towns, Northern Bruce Peninsula has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 41%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Freelton, 45.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women.
2.9 people per household, more than in 88% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families is 8.2%; Freelton has 5.4%.
Freelton: 55% of residents 15 and over are married, above 77% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns, Freelton has 8.9%. A quarter of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%).
92% of households live in a single-detached house, a share 93% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Across the comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 34% predate 1961, 7.4% date from 2001 or later.
The median household brings in $129,200 a year
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
Half of Freelton’s households had a total income above $129,200, 50% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Ontario’s towns, the median household income is $91,600. COVID-19 benefits went to 26% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Below 76% of Canadian towns: 8.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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: 2.9% here and 5.8% across Canada’s towns. The wider picture: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. 13% of residents are immigrants.
38% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 58% of Canadian towns
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 9% in Freelton. Elsewhere, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Here, 2% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
English is the mother tongue of 88%, and 5% speak French as well
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Compared with 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 5% of residents speak English and French here. 0.9% of residents have French as their mother tongue.
Freelton ranks below 54% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 25%
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 8.9%, beside a typical 9.5%. To put it in context, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 64%
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 64%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 17th of 41 towns of 2,685 to 2,761 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Waskaganish is the youngest of them at 25; Eastman, at 56.8, the oldest. Next to Freelton on this scale come Swan Valley West (44.8), Highlands (45.6), Upper Mount Royal (45.9) and Meadow Lake No. 588 (46).
Of the 6 towns nearest Freelton, 5 are older
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. “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.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Freelton’s residents
Is Freelton good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 67% of households and one-parent families 5.4%. Schools near Freelton are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Freelton?
Half of Freelton’s households had more than $129,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Freelton?
2,724, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Freelton alone.
What is the average age in Freelton?
The median age is 45.7, older than 71% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Freelton bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.9%.
How diverse is Freelton?
Immigrants: 13% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 9%. Indigenous identity: 2%.
What religion are people in Freelton?
38% said they have no religion and 57% that they are Christian; 5.2% named another faith.
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).