Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Renter households make up 7.5% in Stone Mills, less than in 95% of Canadian towns
With a median age of 46.8, Stone Mills is older than just over three quarters of Canadian towns. For Stone Mills, the census puts one-person households at 20%. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 8,523 for July 2025. Most recent wave: 12% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%).
From 2016 to 2021, 67% of Canadian towns grew faster than Stone Mills: +2%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 9%. Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Ontario’s towns, by more than +6%.
Only 9.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Stone Mills
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 9.5% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. The highest share aged 65 or over among Ontario’s towns is Northern Bruce Peninsula’s: 41%. To put it in context, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Stone Mills, 46.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
Larger households than 58% of Canadian towns: 2.5 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.
Against a figure of 8.2% across Canada’s towns, the share of one-parent families in Stone Mills comes in at 6%.
Married residents 15 and over: 54%, a higher share than 77% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
20% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. For Stone Mills, the census puts common-law partners at 14%. Elsewhere, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Stone Mills sits above 97% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (96%)
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
38% of homes were built before 1961 and 17% in 2001 or later. By way of comparison, 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 nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Household income at the median: $91,000 a year
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 middle household in Stone Mills had $91,000 before tax, 6% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $91,600, the median across Ontario’s towns. Pandemic benefits reached 23% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Only 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Stone Mills
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (65%) and in the Americas (23%). Compared with other places, immigrants are scarce here: 6%, fewer than in 78% of Canadian towns. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, against 1% in Stone Mills.
Above 72% of Canadian towns: 42% of residents said they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
5.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity, against 2.8% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, residents with no religion come to 35%. In Stone Mills, 1.9% of residents belong to a visible minority.
96% have English as their mother tongue; 6.2% also speak French
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 99%, French 0.3%. Fewer bilingual residents than in 61% of Canadian towns: 6.2%. On residents whose mother tongue is French, 1.2% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 16% in Stone Mills, less than in 79% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 8.7% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 58% 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.
The employment rate of 58% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 9th of 41 towns of 8,379 to 8,658 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 30.2 in Garneau to 60.8 in Electoral Area G, Nanaimo. By median age, Stone Mills sits among Deer Lake (45.8), Huron-Kinloss (46), Brownsburg-Chatham (48.4) and Douro-Dummer (48.4).
A younger town than 2 of the 5 around it: Stone Mills
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page. Distances here run 21–28 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Stone Mills.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Mills | 8,523 | — | 46.8 | 20% | 6% |
| Greater Napanee | 18,016 | 20.9 km | 50.4 | 28% | 5.9% |
| South Frontenac | 21,599 | 25.1 km | 48.8 | 22% | 5.9% |
| Loyalist | 19,761 | 27.2 km | 45.2 | 22% | 8.2% |
| Tyendinaga | 5,005 | 27.6 km | 42.4 | 16% | 4.7% |
| Deseronto | 1,844 | 27.7 km | 44 | 19% | 4.1% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Ontario’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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. 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 Stone Mills’s residents
What is the population of Stone Mills?
Stone Mills had about 8,523 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 7,826, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Stone Mills?
A median age of 46.8, older than 76% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 16%, and people 65 and over 20%.
Is Stone Mills bilingual?
6.2% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 94% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1.2%.
How diverse is Stone Mills?
6% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 1.9% belong to a visible minority and 5.2% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Stone Mills?
56% are Christian and 42% have no religion; 1.9% follow another religion.
Is Stone Mills good for families?
Under 15: 16% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 64% of households. One-parent families: 6%. Schools near Stone Mills are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Stone Mills?
The median household in Stone Mills took in $91,000 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
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).