Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 18%, a higher share than 86% of Canadian towns
With a median age of 45.6, Stanley Park is older than 71% of Canadian towns. There were 3,750 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 8,721 people. 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Households in Stanley Park hold 2.2 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4).
What stands out about the people of Stanley Park
Many older residents
27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 85% of Canadian towns; 10% are 80 or over, and 36% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Stanley Park: 27% of residents are 65 or over, above 85% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
14% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%). On average, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Stanley Park, 45.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Above 80% of Canadian towns: 36% of households are one person living alone
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: nearly a tenth of the total. To put it in context, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Only 42% of residents 15 and over are married in Stanley Park
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
One in ten residents 15 and over live common-law, against 11% across Canada’s towns. Never married and not common-law: 27% of adults (typical: 27%).
Above 74% of Canadian towns: 39% of households rent their home
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
Nearly a quarter of homes were built before 1961 and 7.7% in 2001 or later. Renter households make up 25% across Canada’s towns. Fewer households in single-detached houses than in 70% of Canadian towns: 48%.
The median household brings in $71,400 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $71,400, the middle household in Stanley Park earned 17% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $91,600 is the median household income across Ontario’s towns. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 28% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
A higher share of immigrants than 60% of Canadian towns, at 22%
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
5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, against 8.2% in Stanley Park. Typically, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Europe (46%) or in Asia (32%).
Stanley Park sits below 63% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (31%)
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Compared with 2.8% across Canada’s towns, 1.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity here. Across Canada’s towns, just over a third of residents said they have no religion. Among other religions: Muslim (4.1%).
English is the mother tongue of 74%, and 6.8% 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
12% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.1% speak neither official language. Residents whose mother tongue is French are rarer here than in two thirds of Canadian towns.
In Stanley Park, 26% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 53% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 9.9% 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.
A job for 52% of residents aged 15 and over
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 52%; 27% of residents are 65 or over.
13th highest median age among 41 towns of 8,517 to 8,907
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
They run from Iqaluit, at 32.8, to Renfrew, at 54. By median age, Stanley Park sits among Uplands (43.6), Strathcona Park (44.7), Innisfail (46) and Stone Mills (46.8).
No nearby town is as old as Stanley Park
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Park | 8,721 | — | 45.6 | 27% | 22% |
| Heritage Park | 6,369 | 1.5 km | 43.1 | 22% | 26% |
| Idlewood | 5,005 | 1.8 km | 45.5 | 19% | 27% |
| Rosemount | 6,169 | 1.8 km | 41.9 | 19% | 18% |
| Vanier | 15,686 | 1.9 km | 36 | 16% | 33% |
| Auditorium | 3,918 | 2.1 km | 39.3 | 15% | 14% |
| Centreville Chicopee | 10,291 | 2.3 km | 37.4 | 16% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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 Stanley Park’s residents
What is the average age in Stanley Park?
A median age of 45.6, older than 71% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 14%, and people 65 and over 27%.
Is Stanley Park bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 6.8% are. Another 0% speak only French and 91% only English, and French is the first language of 1.1%.
How diverse is Stanley Park?
22% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 17% belong to a visible minority and 1.2% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Stanley Park?
61% are Christian and 31% have no religion; 8.3% follow another religion.
Is Stanley Park good for families?
Under 15: 14% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 45% of households. One-parent families: 8.5%. Schools near Stanley Park are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Stanley Park?
The median household in Stanley Park took in $71,400 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Stanley Park?
8,721, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Stanley Park alone.
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).