Photo: Ross Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0Fitzroy ranks below 96% of Canadian towns on renter households: 6.8%
Half of Fitzroy’s residents are over 48.3, older than in 81% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 6,400 residents and 2,655 households locally. In Fitzroy, 1.2% of residents are not Canadian citizens. Recent arrivals are just over one in ten immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns.
9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 73% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
60–64 is the most common age band: 10% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. As a reference point, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: just over a fifth of the total.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Fitzroy, 48.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women.
23% of households are one person living alone, below 67% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 6.2%, below just over four fifths of Canadian towns. There are 2.4 people in the average household. To put it in context, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Fitzroy: 15% of residents 15 and over live common-law, above 75% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
21% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. The wider picture: 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
More households in single-detached houses than 99% of Canadian towns: 98%
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 16% date from 2001 or later, 16% from before 1961.
The midpoint household income is $112,500 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
At $112,500, the middle household in Fitzroy out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 31%. The median across Ontario’s towns is $91,600. The pandemic’s benefits: 22% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Fitzroy sits below 65% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.5%)
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
Most immigrants were born in Europe (59%) or in the Americas (15%). Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across Canada’s towns. Immigrants are rarer here than in 70% of Canadian towns.
Residents with no religion make up 43% in Fitzroy, more than in 73% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents: 2.3%, below just over four fifths of Canadian towns. On average, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. The census found that 4% of residents have an Indigenous identity in Fitzroy.
Bilingual residents make up 22% in Fitzroy, more than in 76% of Canadian towns
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
5.8% of residents have French as their mother tongue; across Canada’s towns the figure is 1.5%. The benchmark for bilingual residents across Canada’s towns: 7.5%. At home: English 96%, French 1.4%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 54% of Canadian towns: 25%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 6.5% here, 9.5% in the typical town. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
59% of adults were employed in May 2021
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 59%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
5th highest median age among 41 towns of 6,312 to 6,492
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The group spans City View, youngest at 33.5, to Mont-Joli, oldest at 52.8. Next to Fitzroy on this scale come Antigonish County, Subdivision B (48), South Surrey (48.3), Turnball (50.8) and Pictou County, Subdivision B (51.6).
Fitzroy is older than every town around it
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Fitzroy’s residents
Is Fitzroy bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 22% are. Another 0% speak only French and 77% only English, and French is the first language of 5.8%.
How diverse is Fitzroy?
Immigrants: 7.8% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.3%. Indigenous identity: 4%.
What religion are people in Fitzroy?
43% said they have no religion and 55% that they are Christian; 2% named another faith.
Is Fitzroy good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 63% of households and one-parent families 6.2%. Schools near Fitzroy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Fitzroy?
Half of Fitzroy’s households had more than $112,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Fitzroy?
The 2021 Census counted 6,400 people in Fitzroy.
What is the average age in Fitzroy?
The median age is 48.3, older than 81% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 21% 65 or older.
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).