Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Walkerton ranks above 74% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 23%
The share of households in single-detached houses tops 67% of Canadian towns: 77%. The 2021 Census found 4,030 households in Walkerton; by July 2025 the population was about 10,811. Across Walkerton, 2% of residents belong to a visible minority. With a median age of 44.8, Walkerton is older than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada counts Walkerton as part of Brockton: the figures on this page are the municipality’s.
A +3% change since 2016: slower than 54% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Ontario’s towns the median is +6%, and across Canada’s towns +4%. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 10%.
Above 66% of Canadian towns: 18% of residents are under 15
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Where 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns, Walkerton has 10%. More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 8.2% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Walkerton, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Walkerton sits above 58% of Canadian towns for one-person households (29%)
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.
The typical household size is 2.4 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone. 7.2% of households are one-parent families.
Above 67% of Canadian towns: 52% of residents 15 and over are married
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 22% of adults (typical: 27%). Typically, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: just over a tenth of the total.
A smaller share of renter households than 60% of Canadian towns: 21%
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 74% of Canadian towns. Typically, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Two in five homes were built before 1961 and 16% in 2001 or later.
$84,000 a year: where the middle household sits
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Walkerton’s households had a total income above $84,000 and half below, close to the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 20% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Walkerton sits below 68% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.3%)
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 35%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants make up 4.1% of residents; the medians are 26% across Ontario’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%. The census found that 1.9% of residents are not Canadian citizens in Walkerton.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 57% of Canadian towns: 33%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
With Indigenous residents at 1.4%, Walkerton is behind 73% of Canadian towns on that count. Elsewhere, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 96%, and 3.7% speak French as well
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
Compared with 7.5% across Canada’s towns, 3.7% of residents speak English and French here. Census figures put residents whose mother tongue is French at 0.4% in Walkerton.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 86% of Canadian towns: 14%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 13%, against 9.5%. Against that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 58% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 58%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 10,549 to 11,080 people, the 11th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Liverpool is the oldest at 55.6, Lethbridge County the youngest at 32.8. Lacombe County (44.4), Yellowhead County (44.8), Wendover (46.4) and Forest Hill South (46.5): the towns nearest Walkerton in median age.
Around Walkerton, 1 of 2 towns have a higher median age
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into 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.
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
Questions about Walkerton’s residents
What is the population of Walkerton?
About 10,811, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 9,784 people in Walkerton, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Walkerton?
The median age is 44.8, older than 66% of Canadian towns. 18% are under 15 and 23% 65 or older.
Is Walkerton bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 3.7% are. Another 0.1% speak only French and 96% only English, and French is the first language of 0.4%.
How diverse is Walkerton?
Immigrants: 4.1% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2%. Indigenous identity: 1.4%.
What religion are people in Walkerton?
33% said they have no religion and 67% that they are Christian; 0.8% named another faith.
Is Walkerton good for families?
18% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 58% of households and one-parent families 7.2%. Schools near Walkerton are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Walkerton?
Half of Walkerton’s households had more than $84,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).