Fewer renter households than 98% of Canadian towns: 5.7%
27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns, against 14% in Oakes. Residents who moved in within the year are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 4,048 residents in 1,300 households. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 17%.
What stands out about the people of Oakes
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 12%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Half of Oakes is over 44.9, older than 67% of Canadian towns
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, against 17% in Oakes. For Oakes, the census puts children under 15 at 14%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Oakes, 44.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 92% of Canadian towns: 3.1 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.
The share of one-parent families stands at 7.6%.
Fewer common-law partners than 95% of Canadian towns: 3.7%
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%. For comparison, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Households in single-detached houses make up 73% in Oakes, 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. The benchmark for households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns: 64%.
Median household income here: $142,900 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Oakes’s median household took in $142,900 before tax, 66% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. 29% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Oakes sits above 75% of Canadian towns for immigrants (32%)
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
Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 17% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 1.9% of residents. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (49%), then in Europe (33%).
23% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 81% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents are rarer here than in 98% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, residents with no religion come to 35%. In Oakes, 31% of residents belong to a visible minority.
English is the mother tongue of 63%, and 7.2% 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
Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.6%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns. At home, 17% mostly speak another language; 1.7% speak neither English nor French.
More degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 91% of Canadian towns: 56%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 4.2% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Against that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 53% of residents aged 15 and over
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 53% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 17% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 3,979 to 4,120 people: this is the 16th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
They run from Mistissini, at 29, to Okanagan Falls, at 59.2. Smoky Lake County (44.8), Perth South (44.8), Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré (45.2) and Leger (45.9): the towns nearest Oakes in median age.
Older than Oakes: 2 of the 6 towns nearby
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
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about Oakes’s residents
What is the population of Oakes?
4,048, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Oakes alone.
What is the average age in Oakes?
The median age is 44.9, older than 67% of Canadian towns. 14% are under 15 and 17% 65 or older.
Is Oakes bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.2% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 0.6%.
How diverse is Oakes?
Immigrants: 32% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 31%. Indigenous identity: 0%.
What religion are people in Oakes?
23% said they have no religion and 60% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Is Oakes good for families?
14% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 68% of households and one-parent families 7.6%. Schools near Oakes are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Oakes?
Half of Oakes’s households had more than $142,900 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).