Photo: TheWxResearcher · CC012% of households are one-parent families, a share 89% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home; in Windsor, 38%. With about 269,614 residents in July 2025, Windsor counted 94,270 households at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The city has more residents without Canadian citizenship than 72% of Canadian towns, at 11%.
A +6% change since 2016: Windsor grew faster than 60% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 17%. For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +6% across Ontario’s towns.
A median age of 40.8: Windsor is younger than 58% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 25–29: 7.8% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 19%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Above 72% of Canadian towns: 33% of households are one person living alone
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Ontario’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Windsor the average household is 2.4 people, beside 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners: 7.9%, a lower share than 73% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Windsor has 42%. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
13% of households live in a building of five or more storeys, a share 82% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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
Nearly two in five homes were built before 1961 and 14% in 2001 or later. In Windsor, three in five households live in a single-detached house, beside 64% across Canada’s towns.
$70,000 a year: where the middle household sits
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
The middle household in Windsor had $70,000 before tax, 19% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Ontario’s towns have a median of $91,600. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 35% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Immigrants make up 29% in Windsor, more than in 71% of Canadian towns
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
33% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. The wider picture: 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Asia (55%) or in Europe (25%). More residents who moved in within the year than in 63% of Canadian towns: 12%.
Windsor ranks above 72% of Canadian towns on visible minority residents: 34%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (11%) and Hindu (2.8%). Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 73% of Canadian towns. Windsor sits close to the norm on Indigenous residents: 2.9%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 55% of Canadian towns, at 8.5%
Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
17% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.8% speak neither official language. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 1.9%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
Windsor ranks above 52% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 28%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 11%, beside a typical 9.5%. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 46% of residents aged 15 and over
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 46%; 19% of residents are 65 or over.
From a median age of 31 in River West to 48 in Riverside
The city’s 16 neighbourhoods, youngest first; each links its own page.
Riverside is the oldest area, with 26% aged 65 or over; River West the youngest (median age 31). Immigrants are most common in South Cameron (48% of residents). City Centre has the most renters: 79% of households.
Windsor and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | 269,614 | — | 40.8 | 19% | 29% |
| South Walkerville | 6,129 | 0.6 km | 43.2 | 20% | 15% |
| Remington Park | 5,783 | 1.3 km | 42.3 | 19% | 35% |
| Fontainebleau | 11,567 | 2.6 km | 45.1 | 22% | 27% |
| Walkerville | 19,541 | 2.7 km | 37 | 14% | 28% |
| East Windsor | 20,876 | 2.7 km | 41.4 | 19% | 19% |
| South Central | 10,392 | 3.0 km | 37.9 | 15% | 30% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about Windsor’s residents
What is the population of Windsor?
About 269,614, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 229,660 people in Windsor, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Windsor?
The median age is 40.8. 16% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Windsor bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 8.5% are. Another 0.2% speak only French and 89% only English, and French is the first language of 1.9%.
How diverse is Windsor?
Immigrants: 29% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 34%. Indigenous identity: 2.9%.
What religion are people in Windsor?
27% said they have no religion and 56% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Is Windsor good for families?
16% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 44% of households and one-parent families 12%. Schools near Windsor are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Windsor?
Half of Windsor’s households had more than $70,000 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).