16% of households are one-parent families, more than in 99% of Canadian towns
In Gilkson, 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census put the neighbourhood’s population at 2,963, in 1,085 households. For Gilkson, the census puts immigrants at 31%. The neighbourhood has more visible minority residents than 70% of Canadian towns, at 33%.
A higher share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 82% of Canadian towns, at 13%
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 share of residents aged 65 and over tops 65% of Canadian towns: 21%. Half of Gilkson’s residents are over 42.3, older than in 51% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. The largest age band is 60–64: 7.4% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Gilkson, 42.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women.
One-person households: 18%, a lower share than 84% 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.
Across Canada’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Gilkson, 2.7. For one-person households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 27%.
7.4% of residents 15 and over live common-law, below 77% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
31% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. In Gilkson, 47% of residents 15 and over are married. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Only 51% of households live in a single-detached house in Gilkson
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
Here 21% of households rent their home, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 25%. As a yardstick, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Median household income: $95,600 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
Household incomes run high in Gilkson: half had more than $95,600, 11% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $91,600, the median across Ontario’s towns. COVID-19 benefits went to 28% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Above 56% of Canadian towns: 6.9% of residents are not Canadian citizens
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
Of the immigrants living here, 19% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Elsewhere, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns.
Gilkson ranks below 67% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 29%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, the share of Indigenous residents is 2.8%; Gilkson has 1.6%. Other faiths: Muslim (5.2%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%.
English is the mother tongue of 71%, and 4.2% 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
Where 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns, Gilkson has 4.2%. 12% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.9% speak neither official language. Few places have so few residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.5% here, fewer than in 92% of Canadian towns.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 61% of Canadian towns: 22%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 11%, 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.
52% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 52%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 21% of residents are 65 or over.
Among 41 towns of 2,918 to 3,006 people, the 20th youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The group spans Carrington, youngest at 32.3, to Electoral Area C, Strathcona, oldest at 58.4. In age, Gilkson keeps company with Avonmore (42.2), Skyrattler (42.3), Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (42.4) and North Shore (42.4).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Gilkson
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
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Ontario’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
Questions about Gilkson’s residents
Is Gilkson good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 15%. 55% of households are couple families and 16% one-parent families. Schools near Gilkson are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gilkson?
$95,600 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Gilkson (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Gilkson?
Gilkson had 2,963 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Gilkson?
42.3 is the median age, older than 51% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 15%. 65 and over: 21%.
Is Gilkson bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4.2% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.5%.
How diverse is Gilkson?
Immigrants make up 31% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 33% are members of a visible minority, and 1.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Gilkson?
Christian: 60%. No religion: 29%. Another religion: 11%.
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).