Photo: Don-vip · CC BY-SA 3.0More one-parent families than 85% of Canadian towns: 11%
The share of households in buildings of five or more storeys tops 71% of Canadian towns: 4.2%. Here, 22% of residents are 65 or over. With a median age of 44.8, Niagara Falls is older than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. The town had about 113,983 residents in July 2025, by Statistics Canada’s estimate, and 37,795 households at the 2021 Census.
+7% since 2016, a pace 69% of Canadian towns didn’t match
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 21%. The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Ontario’s towns +6%.
Below 64% of Canadian towns: 15% of residents are under 15
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
55–59 is the most common age band: 7.6% of residents. Set beside that, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Niagara Falls, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
Niagara Falls households average 2.5 people, larger than in 58% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Here, 28% of households are one person living alone.
Niagara Falls ranks below 63% of Canadian towns on common-law partners: 9.2%
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: 28% of adults, against a typical 27%. Measured more widely, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of renter households than 58% of Canadian towns: 30%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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: 31% predate 1961, 20% date from 2001 or later. To put it in context, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Single-detached houses hold nearly two thirds of households, more than in 53% of Canadian towns, and buildings of five or more storeys 4.2%.
The median household brings in $74,500 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run lower in Niagara Falls: half had less than $74,500, 13% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Ontario’s towns, the household in the middle had $91,600. COVID-19 benefits went to 38% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
A higher share of immigrants than 61% of Canadian towns, at 23%
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
Just over a fifth of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, residents without Canadian citizenship are common here: 8.1%, more than in just over three fifths of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants is 17%. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (40%), then in Asia (40%).
31% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 63% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (4.1%) and Hindu (2%). On average, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%; Niagara Falls has 21%.
74% have English as their mother tongue; 6.3% also speak French
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home, 11% mostly speak another language; 1.4% speak neither English nor French. Compared with 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 6.3% of residents speak English and French here.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 24%, a lower share than 56% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 9% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
Employment: 45% of residents 15 and over had a job
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 22% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 45% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 81,813 to 157,345 people: this is the 9th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The youngest is Airdrie (35.6) and the oldest Lindsay (51.6). Drummondville (44.8), St. Catharines (44.8), Nanaimo (45.2) and Saint-Jérôme (45.2): the towns nearest Niagara Falls in median age.
Among its 5 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Niagara Falls
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Falls | 113,983 | — | 44.8 | 22% | 23% |
| Thorold | 33,844 | 9.5 km | 37.2 | 16% | 17% |
| St. Catharines | 153,865 | 14.2 km | 44.8 | 23% | 20% |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake | 20,080 | 14.4 km | 57.2 | 36% | 26% |
| Welland | 66,480 | 16.7 km | 45.2 | 23% | 12% |
| Pelham | 19,980 | 17.3 km | 50.4 | 27% | 13% |
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.
- 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 Niagara Falls’s residents
What is the median income in Niagara Falls?
Half of Niagara Falls’s households had more than $74,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Niagara Falls?
About 113,983, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 94,415 people in Niagara Falls, 7% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Niagara Falls?
The median age is 44.8, older than 66% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 22% 65 or older.
Is Niagara Falls bilingual?
6.3% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 92% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1.6%.
How diverse is Niagara Falls?
Immigrants: 23% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 21%. Indigenous identity: 2.7%.
What religion are people in Niagara Falls?
31% said they have no religion and 60% that they are Christian; 9% named another faith.
Is Niagara Falls good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 48% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Niagara Falls are on its Schools page.
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).