Photo: Jason Zhang · CC0York Road is older than 72% of Canadian towns: a median age of 45.9
Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 35%; York Road has 42%. Census figures put households in buildings of five or more storeys at 3.4% here. Lower than in 77% of Canadian towns: 8.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. The 2021 Census counted 4,931 residents in 2,035 households.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 67% of Canadian towns, at 22%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Against a figure of 16% across Canada’s towns, the share of children under 15 in York Road comes in at 15%. More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 8% of residents. For comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ York Road, 45.9. 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.
York Road ranks below 55% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 26%
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
There are 2.4 people in the average household. One-parent families make up 8.1%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
More married residents 15 and over than 63% of Canadian towns: 51%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 25% of adults, beside a typical 27%. The usual figure: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Census figures put common-law partners at 11% in York Road.
A larger share of households in single-detached houses than 61% of Canadian towns: 72%
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
Older homes outnumber new: 48% predate 1961, 2.9% date from 2001 or later. As a reference point, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. There is little gap on renter households: 25%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
Households here have a median income of $108,600 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in York Road had $108,600 before tax, 26% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The median across Ontario’s towns is $91,600. The pandemic’s benefits: 24% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
17% of residents are immigrants
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 share of residents without Canadian citizenship is 2.8%, against 5.8% across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (62%), then in the Americas (15%).
53% said they are Christian and 42% that they have no religion
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, against 8% in York Road. In York Road, 1.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
88% have English as their mother tongue; 7.7% also speak French
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
0.9% of residents have French as their mother tongue, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
43% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 77% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
5.3% of those aged 25 to 64 have no formal credential, where the typical town has 9.5%.
In work on census day: 59% of adults
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 59%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
15th highest median age among 41 towns of 4,817 to 5,046
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Median ages here range from 31.1 in Westdale South to 61.6 in Northern Bruce Peninsula. Idlewood (45.5), Capilano (45.9), Electoral Area C, North Okanagan (47.2) and St. Stephen (48): the towns nearest York Road in median age.
York Road is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| York Road | 4,931 | — | 45.9 | 22% | 17% |
| Central Business Dis | 6,127 | 1.9 km | 55.7 | 39% | 22% |
| Colborne | 7,447 | 2.4 km | 47.3 | 20% | 15% |
| Ainslie Wood West | 3,917 | 2.7 km | 36.2 | 18% | 30% |
| Ainslie Wood East | 3,112 | 2.7 km | 28.2 | 14% | 19% |
| Westdale South | 4,931 | 3.1 km | 31.1 | 13% | 29% |
| Golf Course | 3,741 | 3.7 km | 46.5 | 19% | 21% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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.
Questions about York Road’s residents
What is the median income in York Road?
Half of York Road’s households had more than $108,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of York Road?
The 2021 Census counted 4,931 people in York Road.
What is the average age in York Road?
The median age is 45.9, older than 72% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 22% 65 or older.
Is York Road bilingual?
English and French: 7.7% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 92%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 0.9%.
How diverse is York Road?
Immigrants: 17% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 8%. Indigenous identity: 1.1%.
What religion are people in York Road?
42% said they have no religion and 53% that they are Christian; 4.4% named another faith.
Is York Road good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 57% of households and one-parent families 8.1%. Schools near York Road are on its Schools page.
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).