Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Below 97% of Canadian towns: 5.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
The average household has 2.9 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 11,177 residents in 3,880 households. 11% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. Indigenous residents are rarer here than in 98% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Princess-Rosethorn
Many graduates
62% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 95% of Canadian towns; 15% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 46.2: Princess-Rosethorn is older than 73% of Canadian towns
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 8.7% of residents. 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 80% of Canadian towns. Against a figure of 19% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Princess-Rosethorn comes in at 21%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Princess-Rosethorn, 46.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
15% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 91% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Census figures put one-parent families at 8.5% in Princess-Rosethorn. The benchmark for one-person households across Canada’s towns: 27%.
Common-law partners make up 4.7% in Princess-Rosethorn, less than in 92% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
26% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Set beside that, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Princess-Rosethorn: 85% of households live in a single-detached house, above 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
Older homes outnumber new: 50% predate 1961, 9.4% date from 2001 or later. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. Lower than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns: 15% of households rent their home.
$174,800 a year is the median household income here
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $174,800, the middle household in Princess-Rosethorn out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 103%. The middle household across Ontario’s towns has $91,600 before tax. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 26% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Immigrants make up 31% in Princess-Rosethorn, more than in 73% of Canadian towns
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 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (51%), then in Asia (34%). Typically, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. 15% of immigrants arrived from 2011 to 2021 (typical: 27%), and non-permanent residents make up a further 1% of residents.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 80% of Canadian towns, at 24%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (3.8%). Against that, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. More visible minority residents than in 60% of Canadian towns: 24%.
Princess-Rosethorn: 11% of residents speak English and French, above 63% of Canadian towns
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
Princess-Rosethorn sits close to the norm on residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.9%, about the same as across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, bilingual residents come to 7.5%. At home, 14% mostly speak another language; 1.6% speak neither English nor French.
Above 95% of Canadian towns: 62% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 2.7% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. 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 55%
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 55% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 21% of residents are 65 or over.
Ranked by age, 14th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Thornbury is the oldest at 58.8, Bridgwater Trails the youngest at 30.4. The towns whose median age is nearest to Princess-Rosethorn’s: Laurentian (45.4), Cabbagetown-South St.James Town (45.5), Lake Bonavista (46.5) and Forest Hill South (46.5).
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Princess-Rosethorn
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princess-Rosethorn | 11,177 | — | 46.2 | 21% | 31% |
| Edenbridge-Humber Valley | 15,480 | 1.9 km | 47.6 | 24% | 39% |
| Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview | 22,456 | 2.1 km | 44.2 | 23% | 46% |
| Islington | 23,659 | 2.3 km | 44 | 21% | 42% |
| Eringate-Centennial-West Deane | 18,501 | 2.8 km | 46.3 | 22% | 43% |
| Etobicoke West Mall | 12,218 | 2.9 km | 40.7 | 19% | 50% |
| Kingsway South | 8,935 | 3.0 km | 47.8 | 24% | 22% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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. 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 Princess-Rosethorn’s residents
How diverse is Princess-Rosethorn?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 31%. A visible minority makes up 24% and Indigenous residents 0%.
What religion are people in Princess-Rosethorn?
Most often Christian (68%) or no religion (24%); other religions make up 8.8%.
Is Princess-Rosethorn good for families?
Children under 15 are 16% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 67% of households and one-parent families 8.5%. Schools near Princess-Rosethorn are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Princess-Rosethorn?
Median total household income in Princess-Rosethorn was $174,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Princess-Rosethorn?
Princess-Rosethorn had 11,177 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Princess-Rosethorn?
Half the residents are older than 46.2 and half younger, older than 73% of Canadian towns; 16% are children under 15 and 21% are 65 or over.
Is Princess-Rosethorn bilingual?
11% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 88% English only. French is the mother tongue of 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).