Photo: Nichole Ouellette · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 58.4: Batiscan is older than 98% of Canadian towns
Residents with no religion: 18% here and 35% across Canada’s towns. Batiscan is home to some 1,006 people (July 2025 estimate), in 475 households at the 2021 Census. Locally, 6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Compared with other places, renter households are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in 73% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Batiscan
Older than most towns
Line Batiscan’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 58.4; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 31% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 35% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Batiscan, 28% of residents speak English and French, more than in 79% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
0.5% of residents have English as their mother tongue; across Canada’s towns the figure is 66%. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns.
From 2016 to 2021, Batiscan outgrew 63% of Canadian towns: +6%
The census counts of 2016 and 2021, the estimate after them, and the change set beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns the median change is +4%; across Quebec’s towns, +4%. The July 2025 estimate adds another 5%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 31% in Batiscan, more than in 94% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents are under 15 in Batiscan. Across the comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women.
Batiscan households average 2 people, smaller than in 90% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-person households: 33% here and 27% across Canada’s towns. By contrast, 6.3% of households are one-parent families, fewer than in 80% of Canadian towns.
Batiscan sits above 93% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (29%)
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The share of married residents 15 and over is 35%, against 46% across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 11% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Batiscan sits above 81% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (85%)
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
Just over two in five homes were built before 1961 and 23% in 2001 or later. By way of comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Households here have a median income of $62,400 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run lower in Batiscan: half had less than $62,400, 27% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Quebec’s towns have a median of $74,000. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 20% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 69% of Canadian towns: 9.2%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. The share of immigrants stands at 1%. Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
82% said they are Christian and 18% that they have no religion
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Indigenous residents: 1% of the total.
A lower share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 63% of Canadian towns, at 21%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Batiscan, 21%, and 44% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 10%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
A job for 47% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 47%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 31% of residents are 65 or over.
Every nearby town is younger than Batiscan
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batiscan | 1,006 | — | 58.4 | 31% | 1% |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets | 1,172 | 3.3 km | 57.6 | 35% | 3.2% |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 10.3 km | 55.6 | 32% | 1% |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 11.4 km | 57.2 | 33% | 2.9% |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 11.9 km | 54 | 28% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | 16.9 km | 56.8 | 33% | 2.4% |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 19.1 km | 50.8 | 28% | 2% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
Questions about Batiscan’s residents
Is Batiscan bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 28% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 0% speak only English and 71% only French; 98% grew up with French.
How diverse is Batiscan?
Immigrants: 1% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 0%. Indigenous identity: 1%.
What religion are people in Batiscan?
18% said they have no religion and 82% that they are Christian; 0% named another faith.
Is Batiscan good for families?
11% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 55% of households and one-parent families 6.3%. Schools near Batiscan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Batiscan?
Half of Batiscan’s households had more than $62,400 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Batiscan?
About 1,006, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 958 people in Batiscan, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Batiscan?
The median age is 58.4. 11% are under 15 and 31% 65 or older.
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).