Photo: Andrijko Z. · CC BY-SA 4.0More Indigenous residents than 99% of Canadian towns: 95%
A First Nations reserve, Kitigan Zibi is home to Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg. Renter households make up 13%, against 25% across Canada’s towns. With about 1,261 residents in July 2025, Kitigan Zibi counted 580 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 20% of households are one-parent families. Half of the community’s residents are under 41.6, younger than in 53% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Kitigan Zibi
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
An Indigenous identity is reported by 95% of residents, more than in 99% of Canadian towns. 93% are Registered or Treaty Indians and 11% grew up speaking an Indigenous language. Identity & religion ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 45%, more than in 94% of Canadian towns, and 19% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Fewer people than before
Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, Kitigan Zibi went from 1,231 to 1,204 residents (−2%), slower growth than in 89% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Kitigan Zibi: 39% of residents speak English and French, above 85% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: French 12%, English 80%. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns. The figure for residents whose mother tongue is English is 65% in Kitigan Zibi and 66% across Canada’s towns.
−2% since 2016, a pace below 89% of Canadian towns
The census counts of 2016 and 2021, the estimate after them, and the change set beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Quebec’s towns, by more than +4%. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 5%.
Children under 15: 19%, a higher share than 79% of Canadian towns
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
No age band is larger than 5–9: 7.9% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. The usual figure: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: nearly a fifth of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women.
In Kitigan Zibi, 45% of households are one person living alone, more than in 94% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of one-person households is 27%.
23% of residents 15 and over are married, below 98% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns, Kitigan Zibi has 15%. Singles who have never married make up 47% of adults, beside a typical 27%.
A higher share of households in single-detached houses than 99% of Canadian towns, at 99%
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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
22% of homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. As a yardstick, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 33% date from 2001 or later, 3.4% from before 1961. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
$45,200 a year: where the middle household sits
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Kitigan Zibi had $45,200 before tax, 47% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The median across Quebec’s towns is $74,000. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 37% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
Kitigan Zibi: 48% of residents said they have no religion, above 83% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Typically, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 90% of Canadian towns, at 12%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 19% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. To put it in context, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 39% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 39% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 19% of residents are 65 or over.
Every neighbour of Kitigan Zibi has an older population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
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. 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.
- A First Nations reserve. Reserves are compared with Canada’s towns but aren’t counted among them: they have no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. Census figures for small reserves are rounded, and some are suppressed.
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
Questions about Kitigan Zibi’s residents
How diverse is Kitigan Zibi?
Indigenous identity: 95%. Visible minority: 0%. Statistics Canada publishes no immigration figures for Kitigan Zibi.
What religion are people in Kitigan Zibi?
48% said they have no religion and 35% that they are Christian; 18% named another faith.
Is Kitigan Zibi good for families?
19% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 28% of households and one-parent families 20%. Schools near Kitigan Zibi are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Kitigan Zibi?
Half of Kitigan Zibi’s households had more than $45,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Kitigan Zibi?
About 1,261, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 1,204 people in Kitigan Zibi, 2% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Kitigan Zibi?
The median age is 41.6. 19% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Kitigan Zibi bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 39% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 57% speak only English and 4.1% only French; 14% grew up with French.
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).