Photo: Reg Natarajan from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0Fewer renter households than 98% of Canadian towns: 5.2%
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 18% in Elder Mills and 11% across Canada’s towns. Higher than in 78% of Canadian towns: 35% of residents are immigrants. The neighbourhood had 16,790 residents in 5,015 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents said they have no religion.
A smaller share of residents aged 65 and over than 84% of Canadian towns: 13%
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.
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%). Against that, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. The median age in Elder Mills is 42.1, higher than in 50% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Elder Mills, 42.1. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
One-person households: 8.8%, a lower share than 98% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The typical household size is 3.3 people. One-parent families account for 8.2%. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Only 2.7% of residents 15 and over live common-law in Elder Mills
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Elder Mills has 57%. The share of common-law partners across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Elder Mills: 73% of households live in a single-detached house, above 62% 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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. For households in single-detached houses, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 64%. 40% of homes were built in 2001 or later, more than the 0.2% built before 1961.
The midpoint household income is $146,300 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Elder Mills’s households had a total income above $146,300, 70% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 34% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
4.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 99% 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 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Just over one in ten immigrants arrived from 2011 to 2021 (typical: 27%), and non-permanent residents make up a further 0.7% of residents. The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Europe (46%) or in Asia (38%).
A larger share of visible minority residents than 64% of Canadian towns: 27%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Hindu (4%) and Muslim (3.6%). For visible minority residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 15%. Compared with other places, Indigenous residents are scarce here: 0.1%, fewer than in 96% of Canadian towns.
54% have English as their mother tongue; 4.9% also speak 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
At home, 17% mostly speak another language; 3.2% speak neither English nor French. Fewer bilingual residents than in 76% of Canadian towns: 4.9%. Where 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, Elder Mills has 0.4%.
36% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, a share 65% of Canadian towns don’t reach
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Holding no credential: 8.3% (typical 9.5%). The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 61% of residents aged 15 and over
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 61%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 14th of 41 towns of 16,296 to 17,269 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 33.6 in Summerside to 57.2 in Saint-Charles-Borromée. The closest ages to Elder Mills’s belong to La Visitation (42.1), Mount Pleasant East (42.1), Leduc County (42.8) and East Burnaby (43).
Elder Mills sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Mills | 16,790 | — | 42.1 | 13% | 35% |
| Woodbridge Meadows | 3,651 | 1.9 km | 41.2 | 14% | 33% |
| Pine Grove | 13,302 | 2.7 km | 49.8 | 26% | 41% |
| The Ravines of Rainbow Creek | 5,333 | 2.8 km | 48.5 | 25% | 40% |
| The Estates of Rainbow Creek | 6,822 | 3.4 km | 47.3 | 25% | 49% |
| New Kleinburg | 11,333 | 3.6 km | 34.6 | 8.7% | 38% |
| Woodbridge | 18,835 | 4.6 km | 47.8 | 27% | 46% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Ontario’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
- 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.
Questions about Elder Mills’s residents
What is the median income in Elder Mills?
Median total household income in Elder Mills was $146,300 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Elder Mills?
16,790, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Elder Mills alone.
What is the average age in Elder Mills?
Half the residents are older than 42.1 and half younger, older than 50% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 13% are 65 or over.
Is Elder Mills bilingual?
English and French: 4.9% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 92%. French only: 0%. French mother tongue: 0.4%.
How diverse is Elder Mills?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 35%. A visible minority makes up 27% and Indigenous residents 0.1%.
What religion are people in Elder Mills?
Most often Christian (79%) or no religion (9.3%); other religions make up 11%.
Is Elder Mills good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 70% of households and one-parent families 8.2%. Schools near Elder Mills 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).