Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of Grande-Vallée is over 59.2, older than 99% of Canadian towns
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. Its population is up 2% on 2016. 8.5% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 98% of Canadian towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 1,087 residents; the 2021 Census found 530 households.
What stands out about the people of Grande-Vallée
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Grande-Vallée is 59.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 35% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
13% of residents speak English and French, more than in 67% 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
Across Canada’s towns, nearly two thirds of residents have English as their mother tongue; in Grande-Vallée, 0.5%. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns.
From 2016 to 2021, 65% of Canadian towns grew faster than Grande-Vallée: +2%
How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns the median change is +4%; across Quebec’s towns, +4%. The July 2025 estimate is close to the census count.
In Grande-Vallée, 35% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 14% of residents, 1.9 times the share across Canada’s towns. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. Children under 15: 11% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
Grande-Vallée: 37% of households are one person living alone, above 82% 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 make up 5.7%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone.
In Grande-Vallée, 22% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Grande-Vallée has 39%. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Grande-Vallée sits above 69% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (77%)
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. 23% of homes were built before 1961 and 14% in 2001 or later. Set against 25% across Canada’s towns, 26% of households rent their home in Grande-Vallée.
The middle household earns $60,400 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
At $60,400, the middle household in Grande-Vallée earned 30% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Quebec’s towns have a median of $74,000. In 2020, 20% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Grande-Vallée ranks below 72% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 9%
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. To put it in context, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Across Grande-Vallée, 0.9% of residents are immigrants.
92% said they are Christian and 8.5% 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. The census found that 2.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity in Grande-Vallée.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 11% in Grande-Vallée, less than in 94% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 22% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 45% of adults
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. 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 45%; 35% of residents are 65 or over.
Grande-Vallée is older than every town around it
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page. The nearest places to Grande-Vallée with figures are 37–101 km away.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grande-Vallée | 1,087 | — | 59.2 | 35% | 0.9% |
| Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis | 1,031 | 36.9 km | 56.8 | 34% | 0% |
| Gaspé | 15,479 | 63.9 km | 50.4 | 26% | 2% |
| Percé | 3,137 | 91.2 km | 57.6 | 34% | 1.6% |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Monts | 6,099 | 97.5 km | 53.6 | 29% | 1.8% |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé | 1,009 | 101.1 km | 56.4 | 31% | 0% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. “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. 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.
Questions about Grande-Vallée’s residents
Is Grande-Vallée good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 11%. 52% of households are couple families and 5.7% one-parent families. Schools near Grande-Vallée are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Grande-Vallée?
$60,400 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Grande-Vallée (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Grande-Vallée?
Statistics Canada estimates 1,087 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 1,077 in Grande-Vallée, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Grande-Vallée?
59.2 is the median age. Under 15: 11%. 65 and over: 35%.
Is Grande-Vallée bilingual?
13% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 87% speak French only and 0% English only. French is the mother tongue of 99%.
How diverse is Grande-Vallée?
Immigrants make up 0.9% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 0% are members of a visible minority, and 2.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Grande-Vallée?
Christian: 92%. No religion: 8.5%. Another religion: 0%.
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).