Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Melancthon: 97% of households live in a single-detached house, above 98% of Canadian towns
Households average 3 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Statistics Canada puts Melancthon’s population at 3,581 for July 2025. The census found that 47% of residents said they have no religion locally. Fewer residents aged 65 and over than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns: 14%.
Melancthon grew +4% from 2016 to 2021, faster than 50% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 14% higher again.
20% of residents are under 15, a share 82% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: 8% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Elsewhere, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. The median age in Melancthon is 39.2, lower than in 69% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Melancthon, 39.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women.
One-person households: 16%, a lower share than 88% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families make up 6.8%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, one-person households come to 27%.
Melancthon ranks above 68% of Canadian towns on common-law partners: 13%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Melancthon has 49%. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
Only 15% of households rent their home in Melancthon
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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: 32% predate 1961, 26% date from 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. As a yardstick, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
The middle household earns $100,000 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Melancthon’s median household took in $100,000 before tax, 16% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Ontario’s towns: $91,600. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 28% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Melancthon sits above 61% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (12%)
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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
Where 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, Melancthon has 2.3%. Across Canada’s towns, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (71%) and in the Americas (25%). Immigrants are rarer here than in 63% of Canadian towns.
52% said they are Christian and 47% that they have no religion
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
With visible minority residents at 4%, Melancthon is behind 72% of Canadian towns on that count. On the census count, 1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
86% have English as their mother tongue; 2.2% also speak French
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home, 8.6% mostly speak another language; 1.1% speak neither English nor French. Bilingual residents are rarer here than in 97% of Canadian towns. Where 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, Melancthon has 0.3%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 11% in Melancthon, less than in 95% of Canadian towns
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 18% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Employment: 65% of residents 15 and over had a job
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
More people work here than in the typical town: 65%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 20th of 41 towns of 3,524 to 3,634 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
They run from Opportunity No. 17, at 31.2, to South Tuxedo, at 57.7. In age, Melancthon keeps company with Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby (39.2), Eaglemere (39.2), Burkholme (40) and Saint-Isidore (40.4).
Nearby, 2 of 4 towns have older populations than Melancthon
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- 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.
Questions about Melancthon’s residents
What is the average age in Melancthon?
39.2 is the median age, younger than 69% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 20%. 65 and over: 14%.
Is Melancthon bilingual?
2.2% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 97% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.3%.
How diverse is Melancthon?
Immigrants make up 11% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 4% are members of a visible minority, and 1.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Melancthon?
Christian: 52%. No religion: 47%. Another religion: 0.7%.
Is Melancthon good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 20%. 60% of households are couple families and 6.8% one-parent families. Schools near Melancthon are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Melancthon?
$100,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Melancthon (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Melancthon?
Statistics Canada estimates 3,581 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 3,132 in Melancthon, 4% more than 2016.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).