Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0One-person households: 15%, a lower share than 91% of Canadian towns
Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home; in Forest Heights, 13%. The neighbourhood counted 14,369 residents and 4,960 households at the 2021 Census. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 7.2%. Lower than in 70% of Canadian towns: 1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Children under 15: 17%, a higher share than 63% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 7.6% of residents. The usual figure: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. With a median age of 41.9, Forest Heights is younger than just over half of Canadian towns. Nothing unusual on residents aged 65 and over: 19%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Forest Heights, 41.9. 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.
Forest Heights households average 2.8 people, larger than in 84% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 9.3% here and 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Above 75% of Canadian towns: 54% of residents 15 and over are married
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
25% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Set beside that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. For Forest Heights, the census puts common-law partners at 8.4%.
Forest Heights: 80% of households live in a single-detached house, above 73% of Canadian towns
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: 2.2% predate 1961, 1.3% date from 2001 or later. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $111,300 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Forest Heights’s households had a total income above $111,300, 29% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Ontario’s towns has $91,600 before tax. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 27% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Forest Heights: 21% of residents are immigrants, above 58% 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
19% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Measured more widely, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (42%), then in Asia (34%).
A larger share of visible minority residents than 54% of Canadian towns: 18%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (3.4%). By way of comparison, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Set against 35% across Canada’s towns, 36% of residents said they have no religion in Forest Heights.
English is the mother tongue of 78%, and 5.8% 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
Across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents is 7.5%; Forest Heights has 5.8%. In Forest Heights, 1.2% of residents have French as their mother tongue.
In Forest Heights, 29% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 54% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 7.7%, beside a typical 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
59% of residents 15 and over were in work
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: 59%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
20th highest median age among 41 towns of 14,105 to 14,615
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
They run from La Crète, at 23.4, to Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy, at 57. Manor Park (41.2), Briar Hill-Belgravia (41.8), Mount Forest (42) and Pont-Viau (42.7): the towns nearest Forest Heights in median age.
Every neighbour of Forest Heights has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Heights | 14,369 | — | 41.9 | 19% | 21% |
| Highland West | 12,476 | 1.8 km | 36.3 | 11% | 39% |
| Forest Hill | 5,760 | 1.9 km | 39.4 | 19% | 27% |
| Victoria Hills | 10,760 | 2.5 km | 33.5 | 12% | 41% |
| Laurentian West | 16,857 | 2.5 km | 33.9 | 7.1% | 42% |
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside | 5,007 | 2.8 km | 41.6 | 20% | 23% |
| Laurentian Hills | 10,026 | 3.0 km | 35.8 | 13% | 30% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Forest Heights’s residents
What is the median income in Forest Heights?
Half of Forest Heights’s households had more than $111,300 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Forest Heights?
Forest Heights had 14,369 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Forest Heights?
The median age is 41.9, younger than 51% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Forest Heights bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.8% are. Another 0% speak only French and 93% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
How diverse is Forest Heights?
Immigrants: 21% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 18%. Indigenous identity: 1.6%.
What religion are people in Forest Heights?
36% said they have no religion and 56% that they are Christian; 7.7% named another faith.
Is Forest Heights good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 65% of households and one-parent families 9.3%. Schools near Forest Heights 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).