Photo: P. James Franks · CC BY-SA 3.0Above 87% of Canadian towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
The median age in Temiskaming Shores is 48.4, higher than in 81% of Canadian towns. Some 10,144 people live locally, by the estimate for July 2025. In Temiskaming Shores, nearly one in ten residents have an Indigenous identity. Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Temiskaming Shores has 3.6%.
What stands out about the people of Temiskaming Shores
Fewer people than before
Temiskaming Shores went from 9,920 people in 2016 to 9,634 in 2021, −3%: slower growth than in 91% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Many older residents
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Canadian towns; 8% are 80 or over, and 33% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Temiskaming Shores, 41% of residents speak English and French, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
In Temiskaming Shores, 28% of residents have French as their mother tongue, beside 1.5% across Canada’s towns. At home: English 79%, French 18%. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
From 2016 to 2021, 91% of Canadian towns grew faster than Temiskaming Shores: −3%
How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Ontario’s towns +6%. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 5%.
Below 61% of Canadian towns: 15% of residents are under 15
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with 7.6% of residents. On average, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Temiskaming Shores, 48.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Temiskaming Shores sits above 73% of Canadian towns for one-person households (33%)
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Households in Temiskaming Shores hold 2.2 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4). Here, 8.6% of households are one-parent families. The comparison figure for one-person households is 27% across Canada’s towns.
12% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 64% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up nearly a quarter of adults, beside a typical 27%. Locally, 45% of residents 15 and over are married. The share of common-law partners across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Temiskaming Shores: 78% of households live in a single-detached house, above 71% 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
39% of homes were built before 1961 and 7.6% in 2001 or later. To put it in context, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. At 1.1%, the share of households in buildings of five or more storeys is higher than in just over three fifths of Canadian towns. In Temiskaming Shores, 28% of households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns.
Median gross household income: $71,500 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 Temiskaming Shores had $71,500 before tax, 17% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among Ontario’s towns, the typical figure is $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 21% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 12% in Temiskaming Shores, more than in 55% of Canadian towns
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
Compared with 5.8% across Canada’s towns, 1.3% of residents are not Canadian citizens here. Most immigrants were born in Asia (36%) or in Europe (34%). To put it in context, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Fewer residents with no religion than 54% of Canadian towns: 34%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Compared with 15% across Canada’s towns, 3.1% of residents belong to a visible minority here. Across Canada’s towns, just over a third of residents said they have no religion.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 16% in Temiskaming Shores, less than in 78% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 13% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 52%
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 52%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
In its size band (9,971 to 10,321), the 6th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
They run from Mount Pleasant North, at 33.2, to Blind Bay, at 58.8. The closest ages to Temiskaming Shores’s belong to Markham Village (47.3), Saint-Félicien (48.4), Amherst (48.8) and Bridgewater (51.6).
Temiskaming Shores sits below 1 of its 2 closest neighbours on median age
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temiskaming Shores | 10,144 | — | 48.4 | 28% | 3.6% |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues | 1,197 | 14.1 km | 44.8 | 20% | 3.9% |
| Notre-Dame-du-Nord | 1,081 | 18.8 km | 54.4 | 34% | 2.9% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Temiskaming Shores’s residents
What religion are people in Temiskaming Shores?
Most often Christian (64%) or no religion (34%); other religions make up 2.4%.
Is Temiskaming Shores good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 50% of households and one-parent families 8.6%. Schools near Temiskaming Shores are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Temiskaming Shores?
Median total household income in Temiskaming Shores was $71,500 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Temiskaming Shores?
The latest figure is an estimate: 10,144 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Temiskaming Shores counted 9,634, 3% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Temiskaming Shores?
Half the residents are older than 48.4 and half younger, older than 81% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 28% are 65 or over.
Is Temiskaming Shores bilingual?
41% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 2.1% speak French only and 57% English only. French is the mother tongue of 28%.
How diverse is Temiskaming Shores?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 3.6%. A visible minority makes up 3.1% and Indigenous residents 9.2%.
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).