Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.0Ferme-Neuve is older than 92% of Canadian towns: a median age of 53.2
Here 13% of residents are under 15, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 16%. The 2021 Census found 1,275 households in Ferme-Neuve; by July 2025 the population was about 2,816. For Ferme-Neuve, the census puts residents with no religion at 23%. Just over a third of households are one person living alone, more than in 77% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Ferme-Neuve
Older than most towns
Line Ferme-Neuve’s residents up by age and the one in the middle is 53.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 28% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 29% of adults, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, while 31% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Ferme-Neuve: 16% of residents speak English and French, above 71% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
0.7% of residents have English as their mother tongue (Canada’s towns: 66%). The usual figure: 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
From 2016 to 2021, 74% of Canadian towns grew faster than Ferme-Neuve: ±0%
How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 4%.
Ferme-Neuve ranks above 89% of Canadian towns on residents aged 65 and over: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 60–64: 11% of residents, 1.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.3% in Ferme-Neuve. The usual figure: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Ferme-Neuve, 53.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 83% 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.
7.1% of households are one-parent families, a lower share than in 68% of Canadian towns.
Common-law partners: 29%, a higher share than 92% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
25% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Married residents 15 and over are rarer here than in 85% of Canadian towns. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
More households in single-detached houses than 63% of Canadian towns: 74%
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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
29% of homes were built before 1961 and 10% in 2001 or later. Households in single-detached houses: 64% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. At 25%, the share of renter households is in line with the figure across Canada’s towns.
$55,600 a year: the median household income
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Ferme-Neuve had $55,600 before tax, 35% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $74,000 is the median household income across Quebec’s towns. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 27% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year: 8.4%, a lower share than 78% of Canadian towns
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
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. On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Immigrants: 0.4% of the total.
5.9% of residents have an Indigenous identity, a share 74% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Elsewhere, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 9.1%, a lower share than 97% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 23% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
48% of residents 15 and over were in work
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 48%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
Ranked by age, 9th oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages here range from 33.6 in Rosthern No. 403 to 58.8 in Saint-Michel-des-Saints. The closest ages to Ferme-Neuve’s belong to Atikokan (51.6), Front of Yonge (51.6), Forestville (54) and Saint-Anicet (55.2).
Every nearby town is younger than Ferme-Neuve
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferme-Neuve | 2,816 | — | 53.2 | 28% | 0.4% |
| Mont-Laurier | 14,598 | 18.1 km | 48.8 | 26% | 1.2% |
| Lac-des-Écorces | 3,005 | 19.1 km | 50 | 25% | 0.7% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Quebec’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
Questions about Ferme-Neuve’s residents
What is the median income in Ferme-Neuve?
Median total household income in Ferme-Neuve was $55,600 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Ferme-Neuve?
The latest figure is an estimate: 2,816 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Ferme-Neuve counted 2,716, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Ferme-Neuve?
Half the residents are older than 53.2 and half younger, older than 92% of Canadian towns; 13% are children under 15 and 28% are 65 or over.
Is Ferme-Neuve bilingual?
16% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 84% speak French only and 0.2% English only. French is the mother tongue of 98%.
How diverse is Ferme-Neuve?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 0.4%. A visible minority makes up 0% and Indigenous residents 5.9%.
What religion are people in Ferme-Neuve?
Most often Christian (76%) or no religion (23%); other religions make up 0.8%.
Is Ferme-Neuve good for families?
Children under 15 are 13% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 54% of households and one-parent families 7.1%. Schools near Ferme-Neuve 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).