More renter households than 88% of Canadian towns: 54%
Where 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns, St. Clair has 46%. There were 1,380 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 3,201 people. Across St. Clair, 14% of residents are 65 or over. Half of the neighbourhood’s residents are under 38.2, younger than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of St. Clair
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 54% of households, more than in 88% of Canadian towns, and 58% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 80% 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.
25–29 is the most common age band: 11% of residents, 1.8 times the share across Canada’s towns. Locally, 14% of residents are under 15.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ St. Clair, 38.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
In St. Clair, 35% of households are one person living alone, more than in 78% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families is 10%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Each household has 2.2 people on average. Shared houses stand out: 7.2% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, one-person households come to 27%.
More common-law partners than 77% of Canadian towns: 15%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, against 33% in St. Clair. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
St. Clair sits above 77% of Canadian towns for households in buildings of five or more storeys (8%)
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
11% of homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Across St. Clair, 42% of households live in a single-detached house.
The middle household earns $68,000 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
St. Clair’s median household took in $68,000 before tax, 21% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Ontario’s towns has $91,600 before tax. COVID-19 benefits went to 33% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
16% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a share 84% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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
Most recent wave: 22% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%. The census found that 7.1% of residents are not Canadian citizens in St. Clair.
A larger share of Indigenous residents than 70% of Canadian towns: 5%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
In St. Clair, 16% of residents belong to a visible minority. To put it in context, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 81%, and 8.2% 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 91%, French 0.5%. Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 1.3%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
In St. Clair, 33% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 61% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 11% 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.
In work on census day: 58% of adults
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 58%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 3,150 to 3,255 people: this is the 8th youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The span goes from 31.7 (Crystallina Nera West) up to 66 (Valhalla). In age, St. Clair keeps company with Gilbert (37.7), Cedar Hill (38), Weinlos (38.4) and Blakeley (38.4).
Of the 6 towns nearest St. Clair, 4 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past 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. Two medians frame each figure: one for Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
Questions about St. Clair’s residents
What is the average age in St. Clair?
38.2 is the median age, younger than 76% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 14%.
Is St. Clair bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 8.2% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.3%.
How diverse is St. Clair?
Immigrants make up 16% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 16% are members of a visible minority, and 5% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in St. Clair?
Christian: 49%. No religion: 46%. Another religion: 4.6%.
Is St. Clair good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 41% of households are couple families and 10% one-parent families. Schools near St. Clair are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in St. Clair?
$68,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in St. Clair (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of St. Clair?
St. Clair had 3,201 residents at the 2021 Census.
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).