Photo: Michael Gil from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0In Junction Area, 13% of households live in a single-detached house, fewer than in 92% of Canadian towns
Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 84% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census put Junction Area’s population at 14,205, in 6,030 households. 45% of residents said they have no religion. Here a third of households are one person living alone, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 27%.
What stands out about the people of Junction Area
Many graduates
55% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 90% of Canadian towns; 14% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 8.6% in Junction Area, less than in 85% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 30–34, with just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Canada’s towns. Here, 14% of residents are under 15. With a median age of 39.5, Junction Area is younger than 67% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Junction Area, 39.5. 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.
Smaller households than 60% of Canadian towns: 2.3 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, 7.9% of households are one-parent families.
More common-law partners than 71% of Canadian towns: 14%
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: just over a third of adults (typical: 27%). As a yardstick, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Households in buildings of five or more storeys make up 12% in Junction Area, more than in 81% of Canadian towns
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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
42% of households rent, against a typical 25% across Canada’s towns.
The middle household earns $96,600 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $96,600, the middle household in Junction Area out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 12%. Across Ontario’s towns the median is $91,600. In 2020, 33% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
A larger share of immigrants than 73% of Canadian towns: 30%
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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
Here just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 11%. For immigrants, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 17%. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (37%) and in Asia (36%).
A higher share of visible minority residents than 69% of Canadian towns, at 32%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Buddhist (2.8%) and Muslim (2.2%). 0.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity, fewer than in 83% of Canadian towns. Visible minority residents make up 15% across Canada’s towns.
13% of residents speak English and French, a share 67% of Canadian towns don’t reach
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
14% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.5% speak neither official language. By way of comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. On residents whose mother tongue is French, 1.7% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 90% of Canadian towns: 55%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 6.6% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 63% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
63% of residents 15 and over have a job; across Canada’s towns the typical share is 58%.
In its size band (13,934 to 14,477), the 20th youngest of 41 towns
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages here range from 30.6 in River West to 55.2 in Tiny. The towns whose median age is nearest to Junction Area’s: Ridgehill / Armbro Heights (39.3), Humewood-Cedarvale (39.4), Greenwood-Coxwell (39.7) and Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights (39.9).
Junction Area is younger than 4 of its 6 nearest neighbours
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junction Area | 14,205 | — | 39.5 | 13% | 30% |
| High Park North | 22,162 | 1.2 km | 39.6 | 16% | 33% |
| Weston-Pelham Park | 10,680 | 1.2 km | 39.3 | 14% | 43% |
| Runnymede-Bloor West Village | 10,129 | 1.5 km | 41.7 | 14% | 21% |
| Junction-Wallace Emerson | 23,484 | 2.1 km | 37.8 | 13% | 39% |
| Rockcliffe-Smythe | 22,242 | 2.1 km | 42 | 18% | 48% |
| Lambton Baby Point | 7,966 | 2.1 km | 41 | 15% | 30% |
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. 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. 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
Questions about Junction Area’s residents
What religion are people in Junction Area?
Most often Christian (45%) or no religion (45%); other religions make up 9.9%.
Is Junction Area good for families?
Children under 15 are 14% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 46% of households and one-parent families 7.9%. Schools near Junction Area are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Junction Area?
Median total household income in Junction Area was $96,600 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Junction Area?
14,205, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Junction Area alone.
What is the average age in Junction Area?
Half the residents are older than 39.5 and half younger, younger than 67% of Canadian towns; 14% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
Is Junction Area bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 13% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 84% speak only English and 0% only French; 1.7% grew up with French.
How diverse is Junction Area?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 30%. A visible minority makes up 32% and Indigenous residents 0.9%.
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).