Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Spring Valley sits below 97% of Canadian towns for renter households (6.7%)
Of the immigrants living here, 12% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. One-person households are rarer here than in three quarters of Canadian towns. There were 1,495 households in Spring Valley at the 2021 Census, home to 4,175 people. In Spring Valley, 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
What stands out about the people of Spring Valley
Many graduates
56% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 16% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Spring Valley ranks above 87% of Canadian towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 14%
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 10–14: 7.3% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. For comparison, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. With a median age of 46.9, Spring Valley is older than just over three quarters of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Spring Valley, 46.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
Larger households than 74% of Canadian towns: 2.7 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.
One-parent families account for 8.7%.
Fewer common-law partners than 86% of Canadian towns: 6%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, against 56% in Spring Valley. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
Spring Valley sits above 57% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (69%)
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 households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%. 43% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 10% built before 1961.
The middle household earns $141,700 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Spring Valley’s households had a total income above $141,700, 65% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. 23% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
A larger share of immigrants than 58% of Canadian towns: 21%
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (51%) and in Asia (26%). Across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants is 17%. Fewer residents without Canadian citizenship than in just over three fifths of Canadian towns: 3.7%.
Spring Valley sits below 65% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (30%)
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (2.6%). Lower than in 91% of Canadian towns: 0.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity. The usual figure: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Where 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, Spring Valley has 14%.
English is the mother tongue of 80%, and 6.7% 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
At home: English 92%, French 0.5%. 1.1% of residents have French as their mother tongue, fewer than in 67% of Canadian towns.
In Spring Valley, 56% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 91% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 1.3%, against 9.5%. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
60% of residents 15 and over were in work
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.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 60%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (4,105 to 4,242 people), the 13th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans Banff Trail, youngest at 31.7, to Lake of Bays, oldest at 58.4. Closest in median age to Spring Valley are Leger (45.9), Elbow Park (46.5), Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay (47.2) and Beaumaris (47.5).
Of the 6 towns nearest Spring Valley, 2 are older
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
- 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. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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 Spring Valley’s residents
Is Spring Valley good for families?
Under 15: 16% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 65% of households. One-parent families: 8.7%. Schools near Spring Valley are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Spring Valley?
The median household in Spring Valley took in $141,700 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Spring Valley?
Spring Valley had 4,175 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Spring Valley?
A median age of 46.9, older than 76% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 16%, and people 65 and over 24%.
Is Spring Valley bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.7% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.1%.
How diverse is Spring Valley?
21% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 14% belong to a visible minority and 0.4% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Spring Valley?
64% are Christian and 30% have no religion; 5.7% follow another religion.
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).