Marritt sits below 92% of Canadian towns for one-person households (14%)
21% of residents said they have no religion (Canada’s towns: 35%). In Marritt, 10% of households rent their home. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 89% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood had 2,759 residents in 890 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Marritt
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 56% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 91% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 11%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A larger share of children under 15 than 83% of Canadian towns: 20%
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
In Marritt, 14% of residents are 65 or over, beside 19% across Canada’s towns. What’s more, the median age here is 38.7, lower than in 72% of Canadian towns. On average, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Marritt, 38.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Larger households than 92% of Canadian towns: 3.1 people on average
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.
In Marritt, 7.8% of households are one-parent families.
Fewer common-law partners than 95% of Canadian towns: 3.9%
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Against a figure of 46% across Canada’s towns, the share of married residents 15 and over in Marritt comes in at 61%. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
Households in single-detached houses make up 73% in Marritt, more than in 62% of Canadian towns
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 93% date from 2001 or later, 1.2% from before 1961.
The median household brings in $135,700 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 Marritt’s households had a total income above $135,700, 58% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Ontario’s towns, the household in the middle had $91,600. 32% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Immigrants: 37%, a higher share than 81% of Canadian towns
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 45%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 13%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. Here, just over one in ten residents are not Canadian citizens. Measured more widely, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns.
Above 81% of Canadian towns: 44% of residents belong to a visible minority
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (12%) and Hindu (5.7%). Indigenous residents are rarer here than in 98% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 57%, and 6.7% 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
At home, 20% mostly speak another language; 2.4% speak neither English nor French. On residents whose mother tongue is French, 1.3% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 91% of Canadian towns, at 56%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Marritt, 56%, and 27% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 2.9%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
64% of residents 15 and over were in work
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.
More people work here than in the typical town: 64%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
12th lowest median age among 41 towns of 2,722 to 2,796
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Median ages climb from 25 (Waskaganish) to 56.8 (Cultus Lake) across the group. In age, Marritt keeps company with Waterridge Village (37), Vernon River (37.2), Wickham (39.2) and Kameyosek (40.1).
Older than Marritt: 5 of the 6 towns nearby
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. The middle of Ontario’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- 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.
- 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 Marritt’s residents
What religion are people in Marritt?
Christian: 60%. No religion: 21%. Another religion: 19%.
Is Marritt good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 20%. 67% of households are couple families and 7.8% one-parent families. Schools near Marritt are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Marritt?
$135,700 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Marritt (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Marritt?
The 2021 Census counted 2,759 people in Marritt.
What is the average age in Marritt?
38.7 is the median age, younger than 72% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 20%. 65 and over: 14%.
Is Marritt bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 6.7% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 91% speak only English and 0% only French; 1.3% grew up with French.
How diverse is Marritt?
Immigrants make up 37% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 44% are members of a visible minority, and 0% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
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).