Mountview: 27% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, above 90% of Canadian towns
By its share of immigrants (29%), Mountview is above 71% of Canadian towns. The neighbourhood had 7,752 residents in 2,860 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 14% of residents are under 15. With a median age of 46.4, Mountview is older than nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Mountview
Many older residents
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Canadian towns; 11% are 80 or over, and 27% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Residents aged 65 and over: 28%, a higher share than 87% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns, against 12% in Mountview. For comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Mountview, 46.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Larger households than 53% of Canadian towns: 2.5 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.
Locally, nearly one in ten households are one-parent families. One-person households make up 27%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Fewer common-law partners than 80% of Canadian towns: 7%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
26% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%. In Mountview, 47% of residents 15 and over are married.
33% of households rent their home, more than in 65% 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
Compared with 64% across Canada’s towns, 53% of households live in a single-detached house here. By way of comparison, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 19% predate 1961, 19% date from 2001 or later.
Median household income here: $91,100 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Mountview’s, at $91,100, is 6% higher. The figure for Ontario’s towns: $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 25% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
9.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens, a share 67% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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
Most immigrants were born in Asia (45%) or in Europe (39%). Against that, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. Fewer residents who moved in within the year than in 62% of Canadian towns: 9.8%. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 30% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1.5% of residents.
29% of residents said they have no religion, below 68% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents: 1.6% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. On average, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. For Mountview, the census puts visible minority residents at 26%.
English is the mother tongue of 72%, and 5.7% 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
13% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.5% speak neither official language. On bilingual residents, Mountview sits lower than 67% of Canadian towns: 5.7%. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1.2%.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 67% of Canadian towns: 37%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 4.2% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 52% of adults
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 52%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
Oldest by rank: 14th of 41 towns of 7,606 to 7,899 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 28.6 (La Broquerie) to 58.8 (Minden Hills) across the group. Nearest to Mountview in age: Chatsworth (46), Fort Frances (46.4), Shefford (47.2) and Saint-Félix-de-Valois (47.2).
Mountview is younger than 1 of its 6 nearest neighbours
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountview | 7,752 | — | 46.4 | 28% | 29% |
| Fessenden | 3,551 | 0.8 km | 46.7 | 29% | 38% |
| Westcliffe East | 2,832 | 1.2 km | 43.4 | 21% | 18% |
| Gilbert | 3,181 | 1.4 km | 37.7 | 17% | 34% |
| Gurnett | 4,582 | 1.6 km | 40.9 | 19% | 36% |
| Ainslie Wood East | 3,112 | 2.0 km | 28.2 | 14% | 19% |
| Gilkson | 2,963 | 2.0 km | 42.3 | 21% | 31% |
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. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- 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. 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 Mountview’s residents
What religion are people in Mountview?
Christian: 58%. No religion: 29%. Another religion: 13%.
Is Mountview good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 54% of households are couple families and 8.7% one-parent families. Schools near Mountview are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mountview?
$91,100 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Mountview (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Mountview?
The 2021 Census counted 7,752 people in Mountview.
What is the average age in Mountview?
46.4 is the median age, older than 74% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 28%.
Is Mountview bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.7% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
How diverse is Mountview?
Immigrants make up 29% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 26% are members of a visible minority, and 1.6% 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).