Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Sheldon ranks below 88% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 7.3%
Compared with 35% across Canada’s towns, 23% of residents said they have no religion here. Sheldon has fewer one-person households than 74% of Canadian towns, at 21%. At the 2021 Census, 25,488 people lived locally, in 9,225 households. The census found that 13% of households rent their home here.
Residents aged 65 and over: 23%, a higher share than 72% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Sheldon has 12%. Set beside that, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. The largest age band is 55–59: 7.2% of residents. With a median age of 44.2, Sheldon is older than 63% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sheldon, 44.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Bigger households than 79% of Canadian towns: 2.8 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.
One-parent families account for 8.7%.
A smaller share of common-law partners than 85% of Canadian towns: 6.1%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
By its share of married residents 15 and over (55%), Sheldon is above 78% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
More households in single-detached houses than 51% of Canadian towns: 65%
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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 about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 0.7%. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. 37% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 12% built before 1961.
Half of households earn more than $103,900 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $103,900, the middle household in Sheldon out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 21%. Household incomes across Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. In 2020, 26% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Immigrants make up 25% in Sheldon, more than in 65% of Canadian towns
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (45%) and in Asia (37%). For immigrants, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 17%. 16% of immigrants arrived from 2011 to 2021 (typical: 27%), and non-permanent residents make up a further 0.6% of residents.
In Sheldon, 21% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 58% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of Indigenous residents trails nearly four fifths of Canadian towns: 1.1%. Other faiths: Muslim (4.8%). Against that, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 72%, and 4.9% speak French as well
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 86%, French 0.5%. Lower than in 76% of Canadian towns: 4.9% of residents speak English and French. Residents whose mother tongue is French are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 1.4%.
27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
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: 8.7%, beside a typical 9.5%.
51% of adults were employed in May 2021
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 51%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 23% of residents are 65 or over.
In its size band (24,144 to 26,862), the 12th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
White Rock is the oldest at 58, Wellington Place the youngest at 31.1. Stonegate-Queensway (43.8), Westminster-Branson (44.2), Sept-Îles (44.4) and Kingsville (45.2): the towns nearest Sheldon in median age.
The towns around Sheldon are all younger
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
- What these tables don’t give. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about Sheldon’s residents
Is Sheldon good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 60% of households and one-parent families 8.7%. Schools near Sheldon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sheldon?
Half of Sheldon’s households had more than $103,900 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Sheldon?
25,488, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Sheldon alone.
What is the average age in Sheldon?
The median age is 44.2, older than 63% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 23% 65 or older.
Is Sheldon bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4.9% are. Another 0% speak only French and 94% only English, and French is the first language of 1.4%.
How diverse is Sheldon?
Immigrants: 25% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 21%. Indigenous identity: 1.1%.
What religion are people in Sheldon?
23% said they have no religion and 69% that they are Christian; 8.7% named another faith.
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).