Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in single-detached houses: 97%, a higher share than 98% of Canadian towns
Compared with 27% across Canada’s towns, 17% of households are one person living alone here. Still, the median age in Perth South is 44.8, higher than in 66% of Canadian towns. About 4,055 people lived in the town in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 5.8% in the town.
−1% since 2016: slower than 84% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 7%. The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Ontario’s towns +6%.
13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a share 77% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 9.3% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. In Perth South, nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Perth South, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women.
Larger households than 76% of Canadian towns: 2.7 people on average
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Here 4.7% of households are one-parent families, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 8.2%.
Above 95% of Canadian towns: 60% of residents 15 and over are married
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: 24% of adults, against a typical 27%. To put it in context, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Census figures put common-law partners at 7.9% in Perth South.
Only 23% of households rent their home in Perth South
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: 53% predate 1961, 11% date from 2001 or later. On average, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
A median household income of $101,000 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Perth South had $101,000 before tax, 17% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Ontario’s towns: $91,600. In 2020, 20% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
5.7% of residents are immigrants
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship make up 1.2%, against 5.8% across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Europe (81%) or in the Americas (14%). Perth South has fewer immigrants than 79% of Canadian towns, at 5.7%.
34% of residents said they have no religion, below 55% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
1.7% of residents belong to a visible minority (Canada’s towns: 15%). The benchmark for residents with no religion across Canada’s towns: 35%. Locally, 1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
93% have English as their mother tongue; 3.2% 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: English 99%, French 0.1%. Lower than in 95% of Canadian towns: 0.4% of residents have French as their mother tongue. 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns, against 3.2% in Perth South.
Perth South sits below 74% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (18%)
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
6.9% 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: 68% of adults
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.
More people work here than in the typical town: 68%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 3,987 to 4,122 people: this is the 17th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
They run from Mistissini, at 29, to Okanagan Falls, at 59.2. East Lawrencetown (44.4), Smoky Lake County (44.8), Oakes (44.9) and Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré (45.2): the towns nearest Perth South in median age.
Every neighbour of Perth South has an older population
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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.
Questions about Perth South’s residents
What is the average age in Perth South?
The median age is 44.8, older than 66% of Canadian towns. 17% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Perth South bilingual?
English and French: 3.2% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 97%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 0.4%.
How diverse is Perth South?
Immigrants: 5.7% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 1.7%. Indigenous identity: 1.6%.
What religion are people in Perth South?
34% said they have no religion and 66% that they are Christian; 0.1% named another faith.
Is Perth South good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 72% of households and one-parent families 4.7%. Schools near Perth South are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Perth South?
Half of Perth South’s households had more than $101,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Perth South?
About 4,055, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 3,776 people in Perth South, about the same as 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).