Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More households in buildings of five or more storeys than 89% of Canadian towns: 26%
The median age in Westmount is 45.2, higher than in 69% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 19,591 people lived locally, in 7,840 households. About 4,960 of the neighbourhood’s residents are immigrants, a quarter of them, at the 2021 Census. Set against 11% across Canada’s towns, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier here.
16% of residents are under 15, fewer than in 51% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
55–59 is the most common age band: 6.9% of residents. At 11%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is in line with the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Westmount, 45.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Larger households than 54% of Canadian towns: 2.5 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.
On one-parent families, 9.1% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 26% in Westmount.
Below 78% of Canadian towns: 7.2% of residents 15 and over live common-law
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Here 52% of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 46%. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Westmount sits above 71% of Canadian towns for renter households (37%)
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
Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%; Westmount has 51%. 15% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 5% built before 1961. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%.
$91,300 a year: the median household income
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 Westmount’s households had a total income above $91,300, 6% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $91,600 is the median household income across Ontario’s towns. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 26% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Westmount sits above 65% of Canadian towns for immigrants (25%)
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
Of the immigrants living here, 23% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Typically, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (39%) and in Europe (38%).
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 63% of Canadian towns: 31%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (11%). Westmount has fewer Indigenous residents than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns, at 1.8%. To put it in context, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Against a figure of 15% across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents in Westmount comes in at 23%.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 56% of Canadian towns, at 8.7%
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
11% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.5% speak neither official language. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. At 1.2%, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French is lower than in 62% of Canadian towns.
Westmount ranks above 69% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 38%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 6.2%, against 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
50% of residents 15 and over were in work
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
50% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 25% are 65 or more.
Of 41 towns its size (19,125 to 20,071 people), the 9th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 28.8 (Mitchell) to 50.4 (Pelham) across the group. Nearest to Westmount in age: Beaconsfield (44.8), Loyalist (45.2), Kanata Lakes (45.3) and Kirkland (46.4).
Westmount and its 6 nearest towns: 1 of them 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. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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. 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
Questions about Westmount’s residents
What is the population of Westmount?
The 2021 Census counted 19,591 people in Westmount.
What is the average age in Westmount?
45.2 is the median age, older than 69% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 25%.
Is Westmount bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 8.7% are. Another 0% speak only French and 90% only English, and French is the first language of 1.2%.
How diverse is Westmount?
Immigrants make up 25% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 23% are members of a visible minority, and 1.8% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Westmount?
Christian: 56%. No religion: 31%. Another religion: 13%.
Is Westmount good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 57% of households are couple families and 9.1% one-parent families. Schools near Westmount are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Westmount?
$91,300 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Westmount (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
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).