Photo: Fdesjardins · CC BY 3.0Vars sits below 91% of Canadian towns for renter households (9.2%)
27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns, against 17% in Vars. The 2021 Census counted 2,767 residents in 1,005 households. For Vars, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 6.6%. Indigenous residents are more common here than in 76% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Vars
A bilingual neighbourhood
Both official languages: 60% of residents speak English and French, more than in 95% of Canadian towns. Another 3.3% speak only French and 36% only English. English & French ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Bilingual residents make up 60% in Vars, more than in 95% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
At home: English 57%, French 37%. Set beside that, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Few places have as many residents whose mother tongue is French: 45% here, more than in 81% of Canadian towns.
Older than 70% of Canadian towns: half of Vars is over 45.5
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Here 15% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 19%. On children under 15, 16% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Vars, 45.5. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 111 men for every 100 women.
Bigger households than 74% of Canadian towns: 2.7 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families is 6.4%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Vars ranks above 73% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 53%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, 13% of residents 15 and over live common-law here. Singles who have never married make up nearly a quarter of adults, beside a typical 27%.
89% of households live in a single-detached house, a share 87% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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
Newer homes outnumber old: 28% date from 2001 or later, 18% from before 1961. At 6.4%, the share of households in buildings of five or more storeys is higher than in three quarters of Canadian towns. To put it in context, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Half above, half below $125,600 a year in household income
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Vars’s, at $125,600, is 46% higher. Across Ontario’s towns, half of households had more than $91,600 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 21% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
4.9% of residents are immigrants
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
Recent arrivals are nearly a fifth of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Locally, 0.4% of residents are not Canadian citizens. On immigrants, Vars sits lower than 82% of Canadian towns: 4.9%.
Residents with no religion: 19%, a lower share than 88% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
2% of residents belong to a visible minority and 6.3% have an Indigenous identity, against 15% and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. The usual figure: 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
Vars sits below 53% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (25%)
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
8.5% have no certificate, diploma or degree (typical: 9.5%). Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 65% of adults
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
65% of residents 15 and over have a job; across Canada’s towns the typical share is 58%.
Ranked by age, 20th youngest of 41 towns this size
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 28.8 (Kuujjuaq) to 56.8 (Cultus Lake) across the group. Central River Heights (44.1), Yamachiche (44.8), Highlands (45.6) and Lacolle (45.6): the towns nearest Vars in median age.
A younger town than 2 of the 6 around it: Vars
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vars | 2,767 | — | 45.5 | 15% | 4.9% |
| Navan - Sarsfield | 2,853 | 8.5 km | 46.7 | 18% | 6% |
| Embrun | 23,655 | 10.6 km | 39.6 | 14% | 6.7% |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs | 3,536 | 11.4 km | 48.4 | 21% | 9.9% |
| Portobello South | 29,960 | 14.2 km | 35.2 | 8.7% | 30% |
| Cardinal Creek | 11,676 | 16.1 km | 39.9 | 13% | 20% |
| Chapel Hill South | 14,278 | 16.2 km | 37.8 | 12% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Vars’s residents
What is the average age in Vars?
The median age is 45.5, older than 70% of Canadian towns. 16% are under 15 and 15% 65 or older.
Is Vars bilingual?
English and French: 60% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 36%. French only: 3.3%. French mother tongue: 45%.
How diverse is Vars?
Immigrants: 4.9% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2%. Indigenous identity: 6.3%.
What religion are people in Vars?
19% said they have no religion and 80% that they are Christian; 1.1% named another faith.
Is Vars good for families?
16% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 67% of households and one-parent families 6.4%. Schools near Vars are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Vars?
Half of Vars’s households had more than $125,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Vars?
The 2021 Census counted 2,767 people in Vars.
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).