Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Children under 15 make up 23% in Ange-Gardien, more than in 93% of Canadian towns
Recent arrivals are 60% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 0.9% of residents are immigrants. With a median age of 36.8, Ange-Gardien is younger than 83% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 3,100 for July 2025.
What stands out about the people of Ange-Gardien
A town of families
23% of residents are under 15, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 8.1% of households are one-parent families and households average 2.5 people. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 37% of adults, more than in 99% of Canadian towns, while 28% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Above 81% of Canadian towns: 30% of residents speak English and French
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. 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
In Ange-Gardien, 1.8% of residents have English as their mother tongue, beside 66% across Canada’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. At home: French 97%, English 1.2%.
+7% since 2016, a pace 68% of Canadian towns didn’t match
Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Quebec’s towns, by more than +4%.
In Ange-Gardien, 15% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 73% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 30–34: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Ange-Gardien, 36.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women.
Bigger households than 58% of Canadian towns: 2.5 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Here, 26% of households are one person living alone. Nothing unusual on one-parent families: 8.1%, close to the figure across Canada’s towns.
A larger share of common-law partners than 99% of Canadian towns: 37%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
A quarter of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Ange-Gardien has fewer married residents 15 and over than 93% of Canadian towns, at 28%. Common-law partners: 11% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Ange-Gardien: 34% of households rent their home, above 66% 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
Newer homes outnumber old: 37% date from 2001 or later, 21% from before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%. Here just over three in five households live in a single-detached house, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 64%.
Half of households earn more than $79,500 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Ange-Gardien’s households had a total income below $79,500, 8% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns, half of households had more than $74,000 before tax. 28% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Residents who moved in within the year make up 12% in Ange-Gardien, more than in 61% 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 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The share of residents without Canadian citizenship trails 97% of Canadian towns: 0.4%. The wider picture: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Residents with no religion make up 31% in Ange-Gardien, less than in 62% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 15% belong to a visible minority and 2.8% are Indigenous; here, 1.3% and 2%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 35%. Indigenous residents are rarer here than in just over three fifths of Canadian towns.
13% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, below 89% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
17% have no certificate, diploma or degree (typical: 9.5%). Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
77% of residents 15 and over were in work
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.
The employment rate of 77% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
The 7th youngest of 41 towns of 3,050 to 3,150 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 25.6 (La Loche) to 59.6 (Trois-Pistoles) across the group. The towns whose median age is nearest to Ange-Gardien’s: Lower Mount Royal (34.1), Brooklands (36.2), Saint-Dominique (37.2) and Alpine (38.2).
Every neighbour of Ange-Gardien has an older population
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ange-Gardien | 3,100 | — | 36.8 | 15% | 0.9% |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford | 2,891 | 8.2 km | 45.6 | 20% | 3.5% |
| Saint-Césaire | 6,150 | 8.9 km | 42 | 19% | 3.9% |
| Farnham | 11,315 | 9.1 km | 40.4 | 20% | 2.8% |
| Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby | 3,545 | 11.8 km | 39.2 | 12% | 1.7% |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville | 1,540 | 11.8 km | 38.8 | 15% | 3.8% |
| Rougemont | 2,832 | 13.6 km | 43.2 | 18% | 2.8% |
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 Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
- What these tables don’t give. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
Questions about Ange-Gardien’s residents
What is the average age in Ange-Gardien?
Half the residents are older than 36.8 and half younger, younger than 83% of Canadian towns; 23% are children under 15 and 15% are 65 or over.
Is Ange-Gardien bilingual?
English and French: 30% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 0.5%. French only: 69%. French mother tongue: 96%.
How diverse is Ange-Gardien?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 0.9%. A visible minority makes up 1.3% and Indigenous residents 2%.
What religion are people in Ange-Gardien?
Most often Christian (69%) or no religion (31%); other religions make up 0%.
Is Ange-Gardien good for families?
Children under 15 are 23% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 61% of households and one-parent families 8.1%. Schools near Ange-Gardien are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ange-Gardien?
Median total household income in Ange-Gardien was $79,500 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Ange-Gardien?
The latest figure is an estimate: 3,100 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Ange-Gardien counted 2,889, 7% more than 2016.
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).