Photo: Gilbertus · CC BY 3.022% of residents are under 15, a share 92% of Canadian towns don’t reach
In Boischatel, 10% of households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 9,250 for July 2025. Census figures put one-person households at 21% locally. This Quebec town has fewer immigrants than 86% of Canadian towns, at 3.8%.
What stands out about the people of Boischatel
A town of families
Children under 15 are 22% of residents, more than in 92% of Canadian towns. Households average 2.6 people, and 6.2% are one-parent families. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
36% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 33% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
40% of residents speak English and French, a share 86% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. 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
At home: French 98%, English 0.8%. For bilingual residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 7.5%. On residents whose mother tongue is English, Boischatel sits lower than 96% of Canadian towns: 0.9%.
Boischatel grew +9% from 2016 to 2021, faster than 75% 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
The July 2025 estimate adds another 12%. Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +4% across Quebec’s towns.
A median age of 40.8: Boischatel is younger than 58% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
The share of residents aged 65 and over trails just over three fifths of Canadian towns: 17%. In Boischatel, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Boischatel, 40.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Boischatel households average 2.6 people, larger than in 67% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 6.2% here and 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
Boischatel ranks above 99% of Canadian towns on common-law partners: 36%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Set against 46% across Canada’s towns, a third of residents 15 and over are married in Boischatel. For common-law partners, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%.
Above 69% of Canadian towns: 78% of households live in a single-detached house
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
Newer homes outnumber old: 49% date from 2001 or later, 9.7% from before 1961. Across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses is 64%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Median household income here: $118,000 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
At $118,000, the middle household in Boischatel out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 37%. Across Quebec’s towns, half of households had more than $74,000 before tax. In 2020, 23% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Boischatel sits below 68% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.3%)
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
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Europe (52%) and in Africa (23%). On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Fewer residents without Canadian citizenship than in 74% of Canadian towns: 2.1%. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 27% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 0.8% of residents.
28% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 71% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Set against 2.8% across Canada’s towns, 0.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity in Boischatel. Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 35%. The share of visible minority residents stands at 2.9%.
40% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than in 71% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
4% of those aged 25 to 64 have no formal credential, where the typical town has 9.5%.
In work on census day: 69% of adults
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 69% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
20th highest median age among 41 towns of 9,043 to 9,460
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Between Oromocto (31.8) and Vankleek Hill (52.4) lies the rest of the group. Next to Boischatel on this scale come Strathcona (40.2), Stony Mountain (40.8), Thistletown-Beaumond Heights (40.9) and Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge (41.2).
Every neighbour of Boischatel has an older population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boischatel | 9,250 | — | 40.8 | 17% | 3.8% |
| Chutes-Montmorency | 16,273 | 3.1 km | 46.7 | 23% | 5% |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | 17,558 | 4.5 km | 42 | 15% | 4.4% |
| Saint-Michel | 17,303 | 4.8 km | 45.6 | 19% | 3.9% |
| L'Ange-Gardien | 4,106 | 5.0 km | 42 | 17% | 1.7% |
| Vieux-Bourg | 14,774 | 5.3 km | 45.7 | 25% | 7.5% |
| Sainte-Pétronille | 1,015 | 6.5 km | 54.4 | 31% | 8.6% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Quebec’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
Questions about Boischatel’s residents
How diverse is Boischatel?
Immigrants: 3.8% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.9%. Indigenous identity: 0.9%.
What religion are people in Boischatel?
28% said they have no religion and 72% that they are Christian; 0.5% named another faith.
Is Boischatel good for families?
22% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 68% of households and one-parent families 6.2%. Schools near Boischatel are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Boischatel?
Half of Boischatel’s households had more than $118,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Boischatel?
About 9,250, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 8,231 people in Boischatel, 9% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Boischatel?
The median age is 40.8, younger than 58% of Canadian towns. 22% are under 15 and 17% 65 or older.
Is Boischatel bilingual?
English and French: 40% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 0.1%. French only: 60%. French mother tongue: 96%.
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).