Photo: Andrepoiy · CC BY-SA 4.0Upper Thornhill Estates: 55% of residents are immigrants, above 95% of Canadian towns
Against a figure of 27% across Canada’s towns, the share of one-person households in Upper Thornhill Estates comes in at 6.6%. Lower than in 93% of Canadian towns: 9.5% of residents are 65 or over. The neighbourhood counted 10,435 residents and 2,955 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put renter households at 7.3% in the neighbourhood.
What stands out about the people of Upper Thornhill Estates
More immigrants than most towns
Immigrants make up 55% of residents; the medians are 26% across Ontario’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (70%) and in Europe (21%), and 24% arrived from 2011 to 2021. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
A neighbourhood of families
Children under 15 are 23% of residents, more than in 95% of Canadian towns. Households average 3.5 people, and 6.3% are one-parent families. Ages ↓
A mix of backgrounds
56% of residents belong to a visible minority, more than in 88% of Canadian towns; 55% are immigrants. Identity & religion ↓
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 63% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 95% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 15%. Qualifications ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
23% of residents are under 15, a share 95% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
13% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (Canada’s towns: 11%). Meanwhile, with a median age of 38.6, Upper Thornhill Estates is younger than 73% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Upper Thornhill Estates, 38.6. 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.
Bigger households than 98% of Canadian towns: 3.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
6.3% of households are one-parent families (Canada’s towns: 8.2%).
Common-law partners make up 2.2% in Upper Thornhill Estates, less than in 99% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: a quarter of adults (typical: 27%). As a yardstick, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
98% of households live in a single-detached house, a share 99% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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 comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
$154,100 a year: the median household income
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Upper Thornhill Estates’s, at $154,100, is 79% higher. Among Ontario’s towns, the typical figure is $91,600. Pandemic benefits reached 35% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
In Upper Thornhill Estates, 15% of residents are not Canadian citizens, more than in 83% of Canadian towns
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (70%) and in Europe (21%). The wider picture: 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns. A year before the census, 9% lived somewhere else: fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Most recent wave: 24% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%).
56% of residents belong to a visible minority, a share 88% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Jewish (16%), Muslim (8.1%) and Hindu (3.4%). Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%. Indigenous residents are rarer here than in 98% of Canadian towns. Residents with no religion are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 35%.
7.6% of residents speak English and French, more than in 51% of Canadian towns
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
The share of residents whose mother tongue is French is 0.3%, against 1.5% across Canada’s towns. For comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. 38% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 5.8% speak neither official language.
Upper Thornhill Estates ranks above 95% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 63%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 3.1%, against 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 62%
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
62% of residents 15 and over have a job; across Canada’s towns the typical share is 58%.
41 towns of 10,196 to 10,680 people: this is the 11th youngest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Between McConachie (30.9) and Markland Wood (51.3) lies the rest of the group. Next to Upper Thornhill Estates on this scale come South Central (37.9), Temple (37.9), Professors Lake (38.7) and Weston-Pelham Park (39.3).
A younger town than 3 of the 6 around it: Upper Thornhill Estates
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Thornhill Estates | 10,435 | — | 38.6 | 9.5% | 55% |
| The Valleys of Thornhill | 9,979 | 2.1 km | 36.9 | 8.8% | 50% |
| Hope | 6,997 | 2.9 km | 39 | 13% | 39% |
| Carrville Corners | 13,004 | 2.9 km | 38.2 | 11% | 52% |
| Richmond Hill | 222,031 | 3.5 km | 43.6 | 17% | 58% |
| Thornhill Woods | 13,237 | 4.0 km | 38.6 | 9.5% | 49% |
| Dufferin Hill | 7,910 | 4.1 km | 42.8 | 13% | 52% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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.
- 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 Upper Thornhill Estates’s residents
Is Upper Thornhill Estates good for families?
23% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 69% of households and one-parent families 6.3%. Schools near Upper Thornhill Estates are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Upper Thornhill Estates?
Half of Upper Thornhill Estates’s households had more than $154,100 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Upper Thornhill Estates?
Upper Thornhill Estates had 10,435 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Upper Thornhill Estates?
The median age is 38.6, younger than 73% of Canadian towns. 23% are under 15 and 9.5% 65 or older.
Is Upper Thornhill Estates bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 7.6% are. Another 0% speak only French and 87% only English, and French is the first language of 0.3%.
How diverse is Upper Thornhill Estates?
Immigrants: 55% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 56%. Indigenous identity: 0%.
What religion are people in Upper Thornhill Estates?
35% said they have no religion and 35% that they are Christian; 31% named another faith.
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).