41% of households rent their home, a share 77% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Where 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns, Bellerive has 24%. More one-person households than in three fifths of Canadian towns: 30%. At the 2021 Census, 4,393 people lived in the neighbourhood, in 1,855 households. On the census count, 9.7% of residents are not Canadian citizens.
What stands out about the people of Bellerive
A bilingual neighbourhood
Both official languages: 54% of residents speak English and French, more than in 92% of Canadian towns. Another 42% speak only French and 2.5% only English. English & French ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
54% of residents speak English and French, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. 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
12% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.7% speak neither official language. Across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents is 7.5%. Compared with other places, residents whose mother tongue is English are scarce here: 2.7%, fewer than in 90% of Canadian towns.
18% of residents are under 15, a share 73% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with 7.8% of residents. As a reference point, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. The highest share aged 65 or over among Quebec’s towns is Centre’s: 46%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Bellerive, 41.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Bellerive sits above 71% of Canadian towns for one-parent families (9.6%)
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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. The wider picture: nearly one in ten households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns.
In Bellerive, 22% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: 28% of adults, against a typical 27%. As a reference point, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
43% of households live in a single-detached house, fewer than in 75% of Canadian towns
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median household income here: $82,200 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Bellerive’s median household took in $82,200 before tax, about the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns the median is $74,000. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 27% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
In Bellerive, 21% of residents are immigrants, more than in 58% 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 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Bellerive, 9.8%. Typically, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. Most immigrants were born in Africa (31%) or in Europe (27%).
33% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 58% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents: 0.2% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. By way of comparison, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (6.7%).
Bellerive: 48% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 83% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 5.3% 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.
An employment rate of 60%
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, below this 60%.
Ranked by age, 21st oldest of 41 towns this size
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages here range from 31.9 in Glenridding Heights to 58.8 in Highlands East. Bruleville (41), Patricia Heights (41.8), Queensland (42.2) and Deer Ridge (42.6): the towns nearest Bellerive in median age.
3 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Bellerive
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellerive | 4,393 | — | 41.8 | 20% | 21% |
| Carillon / Saint-Pie-X | 5,457 | 1.0 km | 38 | 17% | 22% |
| Centre | 6,627 | 1.1 km | 61.2 | 46% | 17% |
| Collectivité Nouvelle | 3,587 | 1.3 km | 47.9 | 18% | 15% |
| Vieux-Longueuil | 15,414 | 2.1 km | 46.3 | 26% | 16% |
| Sacré-Coeur | 20,375 | 2.2 km | 37.1 | 14% | 25% |
| Notre-Dame-de-Grâces | 10,204 | 2.3 km | 39.8 | 17% | 18% |
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. 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- 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 Bellerive’s residents
What is the population of Bellerive?
4,393, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Bellerive alone.
What is the average age in Bellerive?
The median age is 41.8, younger than 52% of Canadian towns. 18% are under 15 and 20% 65 or older.
Is Bellerive bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 54% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 2.5% speak only English and 42% only French; 75% grew up with French.
How diverse is Bellerive?
Immigrants: 21% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 24%. Indigenous identity: 0.2%.
What religion are people in Bellerive?
33% said they have no religion and 59% that they are Christian; 8.5% named another faith.
Is Bellerive good for families?
18% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 54% of households and one-parent families 9.6%. Schools near Bellerive are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Bellerive?
Half of Bellerive’s households had more than $82,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).