Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0A larger share of Indigenous residents than 99% of Canadian towns: 85%
A First Nations reserve, Mashteuiatsh is home to Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan. The figure for renter households is 16% in Mashteuiatsh and 25% across Canada’s towns. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 30%, more than in 60% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the community’s population at 2,074 for July 2025. On the census count, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
What stands out about the people of Mashteuiatsh
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
85% of residents identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit, more than in 99% of Canadian towns; 83% are Registered or Treaty Indians, and 5.3% have an Indigenous mother tongue. Identity & religion ↓
Common-law couples
26% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 89% of Canadian towns; 26% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Mashteuiatsh, 15% of residents speak English and French, more than in 70% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. 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
An Indigenous language is the mother tongue of 5.3%. Fewer residents whose mother tongue is English than in 94% of Canadian towns: 1.3%. The share of bilingual residents across Canada’s towns is 7.5%.
A change of +3% since 2016 leaves Mashteuiatsh behind 59% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Quebec’s towns the median is +4%, and across Canada’s towns +4%.
Half of Mashteuiatsh is over 43.6, older than 59% of Canadian towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
In Mashteuiatsh, 17% of residents are under 15, beside 16% across Canada’s towns. Among Quebec’s towns, Centre has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 46%. No age band is larger than 55–59: nearly one in ten residents.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
In Mashteuiatsh, 11% of households are one-parent families, more than in 85% 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.
A household here has 2.5 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. One-parent families: 8.2% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
26% of residents 15 and over live common-law, a share 89% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, against 26% in Mashteuiatsh. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
In Mashteuiatsh, 76% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 66% 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
Newer homes outnumber old: 31% date from 2001 or later, 9.3% from before 1961. Across the comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. There is little gap on households in buildings of five or more storeys: 0.6%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
Households here have a median income of $77,500 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; Mashteuiatsh’s, at $77,500, is 10% lower. The median across Quebec’s towns is $74,000. In 2020, 27% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Mashteuiatsh ranks below 94% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 15%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents make up 0.5%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 35%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 76% of Canadian towns: 17%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 16%, against 9.5%. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 52% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
With 19% of residents 65 or over, the employment rate of 52% sits under the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Mashteuiatsh and its 3 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mashteuiatsh | 2,074 | — | 43.6 | 19% | 0% |
| Roberval | 9,828 | 6.9 km | 52.4 | 29% | 0.5% |
| Saint-Prime | 2,808 | 7.7 km | 43.6 | 20% | 1.5% |
| Saint-Félicien | 10,143 | 16.9 km | 48.4 | 25% | 1.4% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about Mashteuiatsh’s residents
What religion are people in Mashteuiatsh?
15% said they have no religion and 81% that they are Christian; 4.2% named another faith.
Is Mashteuiatsh good for families?
17% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 44% of households and one-parent families 11%. Schools near Mashteuiatsh are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mashteuiatsh?
Half of Mashteuiatsh’s households had more than $77,500 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Mashteuiatsh?
About 2,074, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 2,010 people in Mashteuiatsh, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Mashteuiatsh?
The median age is 43.6. 17% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Mashteuiatsh bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 15% are. Another 85% speak only French and 0.3% only English, and French is the first language of 92%.
How diverse is Mashteuiatsh?
In Mashteuiatsh, 85% have an Indigenous identity and 0.5% belong to a visible minority; its immigration figures are suppressed.
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).