Gourley ranks below 97% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 10%
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (15%), Gourley is above 91% of Canadian towns. The census found that nearly one in ten households rent their home here. At 13%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in 83% of Canadian towns. There were 1,665 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 5,271 people.
Half of Gourley is under 39.5, younger than 67% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Compared with 16% across Canada’s towns, 17% of residents are under 15 here. The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with nearly one in ten residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Gourley, 39.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
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.
9.9% of households are one-parent families (Canada’s towns: 8.2%).
5.5% of residents 15 and over live common-law, below 89% 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
Across Canada’s towns, 46% of residents 15 and over are married; in Gourley, 55%. For common-law partners, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Households in single-detached houses make up 73% in Gourley, more than in 63% of Canadian towns
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 74% of Canadian towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 34% date from 2001 or later, 7.3% from before 1961. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $117,100 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 middle household in Gourley had $117,100 before tax, 36% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Ontario’s towns, half of households had more than $91,600 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 32% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 95% of Canadian towns: 6.1%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 7.8%, against 5.8% across Canada’s towns. Higher than in 77% of Canadian towns: 34% of residents are immigrants. Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (49%) or in Europe (30%).
Fewer residents with no religion than 80% of Canadian towns: 24%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
In Gourley, 36% of residents belong to a visible minority, beside 15% across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 83% of Canadian towns: 0.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity. On average, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (7.5%).
English is the mother tongue of 63%, 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
At home: English 77%, French 0.2%. Lower than in 74% of Canadian towns: 5% of residents speak English and French. Residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.7%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 59% of Canadian towns: 32%
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: 8.1%, beside a typical 9.5%. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 57% 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. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 57%, the share in work is about the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 5,185 to 5,363 people: this is the 16th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The youngest is Trumpeter Area (33) and the oldest Electoral Area L, Cariboo (60). Next to Gourley on this scale come Belmont (38.8), Edmonton Energy And Technology Park (39.2), Carstairs (39.6) and Uplands (40.3).
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Gourley
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
- 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.
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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. Two medians frame each figure: one for Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
Questions about Gourley’s residents
How diverse is Gourley?
Immigrants: 34% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 36%. Indigenous identity: 0.9%.
What religion are people in Gourley?
24% said they have no religion and 64% that they are Christian; 13% named another faith.
Is Gourley good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 64% of households and one-parent families 9.9%. Schools near Gourley are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Gourley?
Half of Gourley’s households had more than $117,100 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Gourley?
The 2021 Census counted 5,271 people in Gourley.
What is the average age in Gourley?
The median age is 39.5, younger than 67% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 13% 65 or older.
Is Gourley bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 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).