Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0A larger share of immigrants than 96% of Canadian towns: 56%
The average household has 3.1 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Meanwhile, on households in single-detached houses, Humber Summit sits lower than 92% of Canadian towns: 14%. The neighbourhood counted 12,194 residents and 3,930 households at the 2021 Census. In Humber Summit, 9.8% of residents said they have no religion.
What stands out about the people of Humber Summit
More immigrants than most towns
56% of residents are immigrants, against 26% across Ontario’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (53%), then in Europe (25%); 22% of them arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A mix of backgrounds
Visible minority residents make up 66%, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, and immigrants 56%. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Humber Summit, 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 87% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 25–29, with 8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Typically, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 20%. With a median age of 41, Humber Summit is younger than 56% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Humber Summit, 41. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
14% of households are one-parent families, a share 96% of Canadian towns don’t reach
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.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-person households is 27%; Humber Summit has 19%. The share of one-parent families across Canada’s towns is 8.2%.
Humber Summit sits below 96% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (3.6%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: a third of adults (typical: 27%). For common-law partners, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%. 48% of residents 15 and over are married.
In Humber Summit, 18% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
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
Across Canada’s towns, a quarter of households rent their home; in Humber Summit, 28%. 16% of homes were built before 1961 and 4.3% in 2001 or later.
Median gross household income: $82,700 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes sit at the middle in Humber Summit: half had more than $82,700, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among Ontario’s towns, the typical figure is $91,600. The pandemic’s benefits: 39% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
In Humber Summit, 17% of residents are not Canadian citizens, more than in 88% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 65%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (53%), then in Europe (25%). For residents without Canadian citizenship, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 5.8%. Residents who moved in within the year are rarer here than in 71% of Canadian towns. Add to that, 22% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
66% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (16%), Hindu (8.7%) and Sikh (7.4%). Across Canada’s towns, visible minority residents come to 15%. Lower than in 96% of Canadian towns: 0.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
64% have a mother tongue other than English or 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
39% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 8.1% speak neither official language. Fewer bilingual residents than in 97% of Canadian towns: 2.4%. Across Canada’s towns, 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue; in Humber Summit, 0.2%.
Humber Summit ranks below 53% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 25%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 17% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Elsewhere, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
46% of residents 15 and over were in work
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
46% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 20% are 65 or more.
Among 41 towns of 11,948 to 12,432 people, the 19th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is Blackfalds (31.8), at the other Elliot Lake (60.4). Closest in median age to Humber Summit are Etobicoke West Mall (40.7), McKenzie Lake (40.8), Nelson (42.4) and Forest Hill North (43.2).
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Humber Summit
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humber Summit | 12,194 | — | 41 | 20% | 56% |
| Thistletown-Beaumond Heights | 9,357 | 1.5 km | 40.9 | 19% | 53% |
| Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown | 32,069 | 1.8 km | 35.8 | 13% | 63% |
| Humbermede | 16,959 | 1.9 km | 37.7 | 14% | 59% |
| Rexdale-Kipling | 10,378 | 3.4 km | 41.6 | 18% | 47% |
| Woodbridge | 18,835 | 3.5 km | 47.8 | 27% | 46% |
| West Humber-Clairville | 33,690 | 3.6 km | 38.1 | 17% | 57% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- 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.
- 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 Humber Summit’s residents
What is the population of Humber Summit?
Humber Summit had 12,194 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Humber Summit?
A median age of 41, younger than 56% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 15%, and people 65 and over 20%.
Is Humber Summit bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 2.4% are. Another 0% speak only French and 90% only English, and French is the first language of 0.2%.
How diverse is Humber Summit?
56% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 66% belong to a visible minority and 0.1% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Humber Summit?
54% are Christian and 9.8% have no religion; 36% follow another religion.
Is Humber Summit good for families?
Under 15: 15% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 45% of households. One-parent families: 14%. Schools near Humber Summit are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Humber Summit?
The median household in Humber Summit took in $82,700 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
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).