Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.08.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 85% of Canadian towns
Visible minority residents: 1.3%, below 92% of Canadian towns. Few places have so few residents without Canadian citizenship: 0.6% here, fewer than in 95% of Canadian towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 14,943 residents; the 2021 Census found 6,035 households. In Bécancour, 1.6% of residents are immigrants.
What stands out about the people of Bécancour
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 34% of adults, more than in 97% of Canadian towns, while 28% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More bilingual residents than 80% of Canadian towns: 29%
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
With residents whose mother tongue is English at 0.8%, Bécancour is behind 97% of Canadian towns on that count. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
A +4% change since 2016: faster than 50% of Canadian towns
Residents at the 2016 and 2021 censuses and the latest estimate, with the 2016–2021 change beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 10% higher again.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 69% of Canadian towns: 22%
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%). By way of comparison, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 8% of residents. With a median age of 44, Bécancour is older than 62% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bécancour, 44. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
One-person households make up 34% in Bécancour, more than in 75% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people. On average, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. The share of one-parent families stands at 8%.
34% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 97% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
26% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). The share of common-law partners across Canada’s towns is 11%. In Bécancour, 28% of residents 15 and over are married.
A higher share of households in single-detached houses than 57% of Canadian towns, at 69%
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%. On the census count, 25% of households rent their home.
Households here have a median income of $75,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Bécancour’s median household took in $75,000 before tax, 13% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Quebec’s towns, the household in the middle had $74,000. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 25% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Bécancour ranks below 58% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 10%
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
7.3% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Fewer residents with no religion than 77% of Canadian towns: 25%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Compared with 2.8% across Canada’s towns, 1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity here. The usual figure: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
23% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 59% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
11% of those aged 25 to 64 have no formal credential, where the typical town has 9.5%.
Employment: 62% of residents 15 and over had a job
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.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 62%.
Oldest by rank: 12th of 41 towns of 14,663 to 15,220 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The span goes from 31.7 (Chappelle) up to 55.2 (Campbellford). In age, Bécancour keeps company with Lawrence Park South (43.4), Les Rapides (43.4), Cooksville NHD (West) (44.7) and Orsainville (45).
Bécancour is younger than 3 of its 5 nearest neighbours
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bécancour | 14,943 | — | 44 | 22% | 1.6% |
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 11.7 km | 47.2 | 26% | 4.5% |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 14.4 km | 52.4 | 31% | 1.5% |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 15.5 km | 54 | 28% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 18.4 km | 38 | 17% | 1.5% |
| Saint-Wenceslas | 1,202 | 19.0 km | 42.8 | 19% | 2.6% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- 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 Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Quebec’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.
Questions about Bécancour’s residents
What religion are people in Bécancour?
Christian: 75%. No religion: 25%. Another religion: 0.5%.
Is Bécancour good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 17%. 54% of households are couple families and 8% one-parent families. Schools near Bécancour are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bécancour?
$75,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Bécancour (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Bécancour?
Statistics Canada estimates 14,943 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 13,561 in Bécancour, 4% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Bécancour?
44 is the median age, older than 62% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 17%. 65 and over: 22%.
Is Bécancour bilingual?
English and French: 29% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 0.2%. French only: 71%. French mother tongue: 98%.
How diverse is Bécancour?
Immigrants make up 1.6% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 1.3% are members of a visible minority, and 1.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
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).