Horning ranks above 83% of Canadian towns on immigrants: 39%
44% of residents belong to a visible minority; across Canada’s towns the figure is 15%. Census day 2021: 4,587 residents and 1,470 households in Horning. One-person households: 16% of the total. More residents aged 65 and over than in just over four fifths of Canadian towns: 26%.
What stands out about the people of Horning
Many graduates
55% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 11% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 46.6: Horning is older than 75% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Compared with 16% across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents are under 15 here. No age band is larger than 20–24: 6.9% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Horning, 46.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Horning households average 2.9 people, larger than in 88% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, nearly one in ten households are one-parent families; in Horning, 11%.
Horning sits below 94% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (4.1%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Married residents 15 and over: 52% here and 46% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
Fewer renter households than 73% of Canadian towns: 16%
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. The share of renter households across Canada’s towns is 25%. For Horning, the census puts households in single-detached houses at 60%.
Households here have a median income of $120,600 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Horning’s households had a total income above $120,600, 40% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $91,600, the median across Ontario’s towns. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 29% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Horning sits below 68% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.3%)
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 45%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, against 8.1% in Horning. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (59%), then in Europe (24%). Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Horning ranks below 82% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 23%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (15%). To put it in context, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Lower than in 94% of Canadian towns: 0.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
English is the mother tongue of 60%, and 6.5% 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
16% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.4% speak neither official language. On residents whose mother tongue is French, Horning sits lower than 62% of Canadian towns: 1.2%. Compared with 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 6.5% of residents speak English and French here.
Horning ranks above 91% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 55%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 3.3%, against 9.5%. To put it in context, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
55% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
55% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 26% are 65 or more.
Oldest by rank: 9th of 41 towns of 4,496 to 4,681 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is Fairfield Park (31.6), at the other Shelburne (54.4). The towns whose median age is nearest to Horning’s: Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu (45.6), Neuville (46), Queenswood - Chatelaine (47.4) and Iroquois Falls (48).
Around Horning, 2 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own 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. 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. “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 Horning’s residents
Is Horning bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.5% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
How diverse is Horning?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 39%. A visible minority makes up 44% and Indigenous residents 0.2%.
What religion are people in Horning?
Most often Christian (57%) or no religion (23%); other religions make up 20%.
Is Horning good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 62% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Horning are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Horning?
Median total household income in Horning was $120,600 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Horning?
The 2021 Census counted 4,587 people in Horning.
What is the average age in Horning?
Half the residents are older than 46.6 and half younger, older than 75% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 26% are 65 or over.
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).