Photo: Chicken4War · CC BY-SA 4.024% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, more than in 89% of Canadian towns
39% of households are one person living alone, against 27% across Canada’s towns. With a median age of 39.6, Roncesvalles is younger than 66% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 14,725 people lived here, in 6,780 households. Locally, 29% of residents are immigrants.
What stands out about the people of Roncesvalles
Many graduates
58% of residents aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 92% of Canadian towns; 16% have a master’s. Qualifications ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 53% of households, more than in 87% of Canadian towns, and 70% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1%, a lower share than 90% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents are under 15 in Roncesvalles. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 13% locally.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Roncesvalles, 39.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Roncesvalles households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 79% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 6.9% here and 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Shared houses stand out: 6.8% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 85% of Canadian towns.
Common-law partners make up 16% in Roncesvalles, more than in 79% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Married residents 15 and over: 35%, below 77% of Canadian towns. The share of common-law partners across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Households in single-detached houses: 9.9%, a lower share than 93% 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
One in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Few places have as many renter households: 53% here, more than in 87% of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 67% predate 1961, 9.3% date from 2001 or later.
$90,600 a year: the median household income
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $90,600, the middle household in Roncesvalles out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 5%. The middle household across Ontario’s towns has $91,600 before tax. In 2020, 33% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 14% in Roncesvalles, more than in 71% 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 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Of the immigrants living here, 17% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (38%), then in Asia (34%).
A higher share of residents with no religion than 90% of Canadian towns, at 53%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Buddhist (4.4%), Muslim (2%) and Jewish (2%). Residents with no religion make up 35% across Canada’s towns. Roncesvalles has more visible minority residents than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns, at 28%. At the same time, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, against 1.4% locally.
A larger share of bilingual residents than 72% of Canadian towns: 18%
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
Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 2%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. At home, 13% mostly speak another language; 3.1% speak neither English nor French.
A larger share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 92% of Canadian towns: 58%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
An employment rate of 63%
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.
More people work here than in the typical town: 63%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
15th lowest median age among 41 towns of 14,473 to 14,961
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The group spans La Crète, youngest at 23.4, to Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy, oldest at 57. Nearest to Roncesvalles in age: Maizerets (38.9), Lacombe (39.6), Middle Sackville (39.9) and Portage la Prairie (40).
No nearby town is as old as Roncesvalles
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roncesvalles | 14,725 | — | 39.6 | 13% | 29% |
| Little Portugal | 15,669 | 1.2 km | 35.7 | 12% | 31% |
| Dufferin Grove | 11,276 | 1.2 km | 38.5 | 15% | 36% |
| South Parkdale | 21,663 | 1.3 km | 38.8 | 14% | 42% |
| Junction-Wallace Emerson | 23,484 | 2.0 km | 37.8 | 13% | 39% |
| Trinity-Bellwoods | 15,691 | 2.1 km | 38.5 | 16% | 36% |
| High Park North | 22,162 | 2.1 km | 39.6 | 16% | 33% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada reports the census by municipality; a neighbourhood’s figures are the sum of its dissemination areas, rounded counts and all, with medians estimated from age and income groups and no 2016 count, as the 2016 areas don’t fit.
- 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. 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 Roncesvalles’s residents
What is the median income in Roncesvalles?
$90,600 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Roncesvalles (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Roncesvalles?
The 2021 Census counted 14,725 people in Roncesvalles.
What is the average age in Roncesvalles?
39.6 is the median age, younger than 66% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 15%. 65 and over: 13%.
Is Roncesvalles bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 18% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 80% speak only English and 0% only French; 2% grew up with French.
How diverse is Roncesvalles?
Immigrants make up 29% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 28% are members of a visible minority, and 1.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Roncesvalles?
Christian: 35%. No religion: 53%. Another religion: 12%.
Is Roncesvalles good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 15%. 42% of households are couple families and 6.9% one-parent families. Schools near Roncesvalles are on its Schools page.
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).