Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 52.4: Labelle is older than 91% of Canadian towns
6.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (Canada’s towns: 11%). With about 2,861 residents in July 2025, Labelle counted 1,360 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 2.8% of residents are immigrants. The town has fewer visible minority residents than 96% of Canadian towns, at 0.9%.
What stands out about the people of Labelle
Older than most towns
Half of Labelle’s residents are under 52.4 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 27% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 28% of adults, more than in 91% of Canadian towns, while 30% are married. Couples ↓
Growing faster than most
Labelle went from 2,477 people in 2016 to 2,765 in 2021, +12%: faster growth than in 86% of Canadian towns. Population change ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 40%, more than in 88% of Canadian towns, and 27% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More bilingual residents than 83% of Canadian towns: 34%
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
Against a figure of 66% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents whose mother tongue is English in Labelle comes in at 2.6%. Across Canada’s towns, bilingual residents come to 7.5%.
A +12% change since 2016: Labelle grew faster than 86% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns the median change is +4%; across Quebec’s towns, +4%. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 3% higher again.
Labelle: 27% of residents are 65 or over, above 85% of Canadian towns
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Canada’s towns. 14% of residents are under 15, fewer than in 73% of Canadian towns. On average, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Labelle, 52.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split.
One-person households make up 40% in Labelle, more than in 88% 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.
The average household has 2 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. For comparison, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. 7.4% of households are one-parent families.
28% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 91% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Labelle has 30%. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Labelle sits above 72% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (79%)
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%. Newer homes outnumber old: 26% date from 2001 or later, 22% from before 1961. On renter households, 25% here is much the same as across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $60,800 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Labelle’s median household took in $60,800 before tax, 29% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns, half of households had more than $74,000 before tax. 30% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Below 66% of Canadian towns: 9.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
Where 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens across Canada’s towns, Labelle has 1.5%. On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Fewer residents with no religion than 67% of Canadian towns: 29%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, the share of Indigenous residents is 2.8%; Labelle has 4.3%. As a reference point, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 93% of Canadian towns: 11%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 23%, beside a typical 9.5%. Measured more widely, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
53% of adults were employed in May 2021
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 27% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 53% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 2,827 to 2,897 people, the 11th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The youngest is McKernan (30) and the oldest Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part (61.2). The towns whose median age is nearest to Labelle’s: Head of St Margarets Bay (50.8), Perry (51.6), Springdale (53.6) and Harbour Grace (54).
No nearby town is as young as Labelle
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labelle | 2,861 | — | 52.4 | 27% | 2.8% |
| La Conception | 1,685 | 13.5 km | 54 | 23% | 3.9% |
| La Minerve | 1,492 | 15.7 km | 62 | 39% | 2.9% |
| La Macaza | 1,138 | 17.3 km | 58.4 | 32% | 6.2% |
| Mont-Tremblant | 11,879 | 18.6 km | 53.6 | 29% | 5.3% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
Questions about Labelle’s residents
Is Labelle good for families?
Children under 15 are 14% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 47% of households and one-parent families 7.4%. Schools near Labelle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Labelle?
Median total household income in Labelle was $60,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Labelle?
The latest figure is an estimate: 2,861 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Labelle counted 2,765, 12% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Labelle?
Half the residents are older than 52.4 and half younger, older than 91% of Canadian towns; 14% are children under 15 and 27% are 65 or over.
Is Labelle bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 34% are. Another 65% speak only French and 0.9% only English, and French is the first language of 95%.
How diverse is Labelle?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 2.8%. A visible minority makes up 0.9% and Indigenous residents 4.3%.
What religion are people in Labelle?
Most often Christian (70%) or no religion (29%); other religions make up 0.5%.
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).