Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0Strathroy: 22% of residents are 65 or over, above 66% of Canadian towns
Most recent wave: nearly one in ten immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). With a median age of 43.6, Strathroy is older than nearly three fifths of Canadian towns. Some 26,497 people live in the town, by the estimate for July 2025. Locally, 3% of residents belong to a visible minority. The census figures here are for the whole of Strathroy-Caradoc, the municipality that includes Strathroy.
What stands out about the people of Strathroy
Growing faster than most
Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, Strathroy went from 20,867 to 23,871 residents (+14%), faster growth than in 91% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A growing town: +14% since 2016, faster than 91% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 11%. Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Ontario’s towns, by more than +6%.
Children under 15: 17%, a higher share than 59% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 7.5% of residents. For comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Strathroy, 43.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
Only 24% of households are one person living alone in Strathroy
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Strathroy, 2.5. As a reference point, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. The share of one-parent families stands at 8.4%.
Strathroy ranks above 69% of Canadian towns on married residents 15 and over: 52%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: nearly a quarter of adults, against a typical 27%. As a yardstick, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. For Strathroy, the census puts common-law partners at 10%.
Households in single-detached houses make up 73% in Strathroy, more than in 62% of Canadian towns
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
27% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 23% built before 1961. The wider picture: 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 74% of Canadian towns. The share of renter households is 22%, against 25% across Canada’s towns.
$89,000 a year is the median household income here
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Strathroy’s median household took in $89,000 before tax, about the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. Pandemic benefits reached 24% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Only 10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Strathroy
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
Against a figure of 17% across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants in Strathroy comes in at 11%. Add to that, residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (78%), then in the Americas (12%).
A larger share of residents with no religion than 56% of Canadian towns: 37%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Here, 3.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity. Residents with no religion make up 35% across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 88%, and 4.1% speak French as well
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
Nothing unusual on residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.7%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns. On bilingual residents, Strathroy sits lower than 85% of Canadian towns: 4.1%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 68% of Canadian towns: 20%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 9.8% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher.
58% 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.
The employment rate of 58% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
18th highest median age among 41 towns of 25,302 to 27,690
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Picton is the oldest at 56.8, Wellington Place the youngest at 31.1. Closest in median age to Strathroy are Sault-au-Récollet (42.2), La Prairie (42.8), Stonegate-Queensway (43.8) and Westminster-Branson (44.2).
Median age: 1 of the 3 towns around Strathroy are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathroy | 26,497 | — | 43.6 | 22% | 11% |
| Adelaide-Metcalfe | 3,196 | 5.6 km | 43.2 | 19% | 10% |
| Middlesex Centre | 21,689 | 17.2 km | 43.6 | 19% | 11% |
| River Bend | 5,930 | 18.2 km | 45.9 | 27% | 21% |
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. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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.
Questions about Strathroy’s residents
Is Strathroy good for families?
Under 15: 17% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 60% of households. One-parent families: 8.4%. Schools near Strathroy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Strathroy?
The median household in Strathroy took in $89,000 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Strathroy?
Strathroy had about 26,497 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 23,871, 14% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Strathroy?
A median age of 43.6, older than 59% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 17%, and people 65 and over 22%.
Is Strathroy bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 4.1% are. Another 0% speak only French and 95% only English, and French is the first language of 0.7%.
How diverse is Strathroy?
11% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 3% belong to a visible minority and 3.1% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Strathroy?
62% are Christian and 37% have no religion; 1.2% follow another religion.
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).