Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0A median age of 56.4: Caplan is older than 96% of Canadian towns
At 2 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census found 920 households in Caplan; by July 2025 the population was about 1,961. In Caplan, 6.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 80% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Caplan
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Caplan is 56.4; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 32% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Fewer people than before
Caplan went from 2,024 people in 2016 to 1,966 in 2021, −3%: slower growth than in 91% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Common-law couples
30% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 94% of Canadian towns; 30% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Caplan, 28% of residents speak English and French, more than in 79% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. 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
The figure for residents whose mother tongue is English is 3.1% in Caplan and 66% across Canada’s towns. The benchmark for bilingual residents across Canada’s towns: 7.5%.
Caplan changed by −3% from 2016 to 2021, slower than 91% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Quebec’s towns +4%. The estimate for July 2025 is much the same as the census count.
Caplan ranks above 96% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 32%
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Canada’s towns. Children under 15 are rarer here than in 89% of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Caplan: 34% of households are one person living alone, above 74% of Canadian towns
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families: 6.5%, below 77% of Canadian towns. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
30% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 94% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 46% across Canada’s towns, 30% of residents 15 and over are married here. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Households in single-detached houses: 73%, a higher share than 62% of Canadian towns
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
32% of homes were built before 1961 and 16% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. To put it in context, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Here 29% of households rent their home, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 25%.
Median household income: $61,600 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
Caplan’s median household took in $61,600 before tax, 28% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns the median is $74,000. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 23% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Caplan ranks below 80% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 8.2%
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
Against a figure of 17% across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants in Caplan comes in at 0.5%. Add to that, residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 96% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
76% said they are Christian and 24% that they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. 2.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
In Caplan, 14% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 86% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 18%, against 9.5%. The usual figure: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 48% of adults
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 48%; 32% of residents are 65 or over.
The towns around Caplan are all younger
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caplan | 1,961 | — | 56.4 | 32% | 0.5% |
| Saint-Siméon | 1,254 | 8.1 km | 53.2 | 30% | 0% |
| New Richmond | 3,947 | 14.9 km | 50.8 | 27% | 0.6% |
| Bonaventure | 2,719 | 16.4 km | 52.4 | 30% | 2.6% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. 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 Caplan’s residents
What is the median income in Caplan?
Half of Caplan’s households had more than $61,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Caplan?
About 1,961, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 1,966 people in Caplan, 3% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Caplan?
The median age is 56.4. 12% are under 15 and 32% 65 or older.
Is Caplan bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 28% are. Another 71% speak only French and 1% only English, and French is the first language of 96%.
How diverse is Caplan?
Immigrants: 0.5% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 0%. Indigenous identity: 2.7%.
What religion are people in Caplan?
24% said they have no religion and 76% that they are Christian; 0.2% named another faith.
Is Caplan good for families?
12% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 53% of households and one-parent families 6.5%. Schools near Caplan are on its Schools page.
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).