Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Above 90% of Canadian towns: 60% of households rent their home
Most recent wave: 44% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). Here, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. Few places have as many one-parent families: 9.7% here, more than in 72% of Canadian towns. At the 2021 Census, 6,213 people lived in Fatima, in 3,045 households.
What stands out about the people of Fatima
A bilingual neighbourhood
51% of residents can hold a conversation in both English and French, more than in 91% of Canadian towns; 47% speak French only and 1.2% English only. English & French ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 60% of households, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, and 73% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 43%, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, and 21% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Fatima sits above 91% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (51%)
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
6.5% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.6% speak neither official language. Fatima has fewer residents whose mother tongue is English than 90% of Canadian towns, at 3%. Bilingual residents: 7.5% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Fatima ranks below 69% of Canadian towns on children under 15: 14%
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
The median age in Fatima is 43.8, higher than in three fifths of Canadian towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 21% in the neighbourhood. The usual figure: 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Fatima, 43.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
One-person households make up 43% in Fatima, more than in 92% 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.
The typical household size is 2 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. One-person households make up 27% across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 96% of Canadian towns, at 25%
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns, Fatima has 23%. Just over a third of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%.
A lower share of households in single-detached houses than 91% of Canadian towns, at 16%
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
Older homes outnumber new: 14% predate 1961, 6.4% date from 2001 or later. Measured more widely, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Little separates the share of households in buildings of five or more storeys here, 0.5%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median household income here: $69,200 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Fatima’s, at $69,200, is 20% lower. For Quebec’s towns, the median household income is $74,000. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 28% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
15% of residents are immigrants
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
Immigrants here were most often born in Africa (35%), then in the Americas (32%). A year before the census, 11% lived somewhere else: fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Fatima has 15%.
32% of residents said they have no religion, below 60% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Nearly a fifth of residents belong to a visible minority, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Fatima has fewer Indigenous residents than 73% of Canadian towns, at 1.4%. To put it in context, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Among other religions: Muslim (5.4%).
Fatima ranks above 52% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 28%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 9.9%, against 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 63%
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 63%.
41 towns of 6,114 to 6,312 people: this is the 14th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
The youngest is The Orchards At Ellerslie (31.3) and the oldest Peachland (60). Nearest to Fatima in age: South Walkerville (43.2), Beaver County (43.6), Nouveau Greenfield Park (43.9) and Beauceville (45.2).
Fatima is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbours
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatima | 6,213 | — | 43.8 | 21% | 15% |
| Collectivité Nouvelle | 3,587 | 1.3 km | 47.9 | 18% | 15% |
| Bellerive | 4,393 | 2.6 km | 41.8 | 20% | 21% |
| Guybourg | 3,554 | 3.0 km | 38.5 | 13% | 19% |
| Centre | 6,627 | 3.2 km | 61.2 | 46% | 17% |
| Carillon / Saint-Pie-X | 5,457 | 3.4 km | 38 | 17% | 22% |
| Vieux-Longueuil | 15,414 | 3.8 km | 46.3 | 26% | 16% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. 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.
Questions about Fatima’s residents
What is the median income in Fatima?
$69,200 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Fatima (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Fatima?
6,213, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Fatima alone.
What is the average age in Fatima?
43.8 is the median age, older than 60% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 21%.
Is Fatima bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 51% are. Another 47% speak only French and 1.2% only English, and French is the first language of 81%.
How diverse is Fatima?
Immigrants make up 15% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 19% are members of a visible minority, and 1.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Fatima?
Christian: 61%. No religion: 32%. Another religion: 7.4%.
Is Fatima good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 40% of households are couple families and 9.7% one-parent families. Schools near Fatima are on its Schools page.
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).