Photo: Michael from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0Mulmur ranks below 98% of Canadian towns on renter households: 5.4%
2% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Mulmur has fewer children under 15 than 82% of Canadian towns, at 13%. There are 3% more residents than in 2016. Census figures put one-person households at 20% here.
What stands out about the people of Mulmur
Older than most towns
Half of Mulmur’s residents are under 50 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 21% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Mulmur changed by +3% from 2016 to 2021, slower than 59% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 7%. Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Ontario’s towns, +6%.
Mulmur is older than 85% of Canadian towns: a median age of 50
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Across Canada’s towns, 19% of residents are 65 or over; in Mulmur, 21%. Here, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Mulmur, 50. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
Mulmur households average 2.6 people, larger than in 67% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families trails 92% of Canadian towns: 5%.
A higher share of married residents 15 and over than 71% of Canadian towns, at 53%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 24% of adults (typical: 27%). The wider picture: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 13% of the total.
Households in single-detached houses: 99%, a higher share than 99% of Canadian towns
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
Nearly a quarter of homes were built before 1961 and 22% in 2001 or later. As a yardstick, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
The middle household earns $114,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $114,000, the middle household in Mulmur out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 33%. Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 26% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
9.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 62% of Canadian towns
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
Most immigrants were born in Europe (65%) or in Asia (17%). Typically, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, residents without Canadian citizenship are scarce here: 2.1%, fewer than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Mulmur sits above 77% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (44%)
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 15% across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents in Mulmur comes in at 7.6%. In Mulmur, 1.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%.
English is the mother tongue of 89%, and 5.9% speak French as well
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
Across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents is 7.5%; Mulmur has 5.9%. Here, 0.7% of residents have French as their mother tongue.
Mulmur ranks below 54% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 25%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 6%, beside a typical 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 58% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 58%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
The 13th oldest of 41 towns of 3,739 to 3,893 people
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
The youngest is Clareview Town Centre (32.1) and the oldest Georgian Bay (58.4). Salisbury (46.8), Stoney Creek (50), East Hawkesbury (50.8) and Roberts Creek (51.2): the towns nearest Mulmur in median age.
No nearby town is as old as Mulmur
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulmur | 3,813 | — | 50 | 21% | 14% |
| Adjala-Tosorontio | 11,948 | 10.0 km | 46.4 | 17% | 13% |
| Shelburne | 10,767 | 16.3 km | 36.8 | 15% | 20% |
| Melancthon | 3,581 | 18.8 km | 39.2 | 14% | 11% |
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. The middle of Ontario’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- 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.
Questions about Mulmur’s residents
What is the population of Mulmur?
About 3,813, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 3,571 people in Mulmur, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mulmur?
The median age is 50, older than 85% of Canadian towns. 13% are under 15 and 21% 65 or older.
Is Mulmur bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 5.9% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 94% only English, and French is the first language of 0.7%.
How diverse is Mulmur?
Immigrants: 14% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 7.6%. Indigenous identity: 1.1%.
What religion are people in Mulmur?
44% said they have no religion and 51% that they are Christian; 4.8% named another faith.
Is Mulmur good for families?
13% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 64% of households and one-parent families 5%. Schools near Mulmur are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mulmur?
Half of Mulmur’s households had more than $114,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).