Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.059% of households rent their home, a share 90% of Canadian towns don’t reach
One-person households make up 40%, against 27% across Canada’s towns. On the census count, just over one in ten residents are not Canadian citizens. Visible minority residents are more common here than in 77% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 41,971 residents and 18,890 households in Laval-des-Rapides.
What stands out about the people of Laval-des-Rapides
A bilingual neighbourhood
Both official languages: 56% of residents speak English and French, more than in 93% of Canadian towns. Another 38% speak only French and 4.1% only English. English & French ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
59% of households rent their home, more than in 90% of Canadian towns; 74% live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Laval-des-Rapides ranks above 93% of Canadian towns on bilingual residents: 56%
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: French 66%, English 7.1%. On residents whose mother tongue is English, Laval-des-Rapides sits lower than 88% of Canadian towns: 4.4%. Against that, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
A median age of 40.6: Laval-des-Rapides is younger than 59% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 25–29: 8.4% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. Here, 20% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Laval-des-Rapides, 40.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 79% of Canadian towns
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
8.2% of households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns, against 9.4% in Laval-des-Rapides.
Laval-des-Rapides sits above 79% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (16%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
32% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Few places have so few married residents 15 and over: 35% here, fewer than in 78% of Canadian towns. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Fewer households in single-detached houses than 89% of Canadian towns: 21%
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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: 16%, above 84% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 22% predate 1961, 18% date from 2001 or later.
Households here have a median income of $67,300 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Laval-des-Rapides had $67,300 before tax, 22% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Quebec’s towns has $74,000 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 34% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Immigrants make up 35% in Laval-des-Rapides, more than in 78% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Immigrants here were most often born in Asia (29%), then in Africa (28%). On average, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year is 12%, against 11% across Canada’s towns.
Laval-des-Rapides ranks below 77% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 25%
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Among other religions: Muslim (13%). 0.7% of residents have an Indigenous identity, a lower share than in 86% of Canadian towns. The share of residents with no religion across Canada’s towns is 35%.
Above 65% of Canadian towns: 36% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 12% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
A job for 59% of residents aged 15 and over
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 59%, the share in work is about the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 14th of 41 towns of 37,226 to 47,280 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Penticton is the oldest at 52, Malton the youngest at 34.8. Vellore (40.2), Hagerman's Corners (40.5), Vaudreuil-Dorion (40.8) and Meadowvale (40.9): the towns nearest Laval-des-Rapides in median age.
Around Laval-des-Rapides, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laval-des-Rapides | 41,971 | — | 40.6 | 20% | 35% |
| Pont-Viau | 14,608 | 2.2 km | 42.7 | 22% | 29% |
| Nouveau-Bordeaux | 30,171 | 2.9 km | 42.5 | 21% | 55% |
| Chomedey | 81,813 | 3.1 km | 46.2 | 26% | 43% |
| Cartierville | 24,617 | 3.4 km | 39.4 | 18% | 48% |
| Sault-au-Récollet | 25,464 | 3.6 km | 42.2 | 21% | 25% |
| Nicolas-Viel | 19,361 | 3.6 km | 38.6 | 15% | 34% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- 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. Provincial and national yardsticks: Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
Questions about Laval-des-Rapides’s residents
What is the average age in Laval-des-Rapides?
The median age is 40.6, younger than 59% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 20% 65 or older.
Is Laval-des-Rapides bilingual?
56% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 38% speak French only and 4.1% English only. French is the mother tongue of 58%.
How diverse is Laval-des-Rapides?
Immigrants: 35% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 40%. Indigenous identity: 0.7%.
What religion are people in Laval-des-Rapides?
25% said they have no religion and 58% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Is Laval-des-Rapides good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 43% of households and one-parent families 9.4%. Schools near Laval-des-Rapides are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Laval-des-Rapides?
Half of Laval-des-Rapides’s households had more than $67,300 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Laval-des-Rapides?
The 2021 Census counted 41,971 people in Laval-des-Rapides.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. 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).