Photo: Sylfred1977 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mont-Laurier is older than 82% of Canadian towns: a median age of 48.8
At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. By contrast, more residents aged 65 and over than in 84% of Canadian towns: 26%. Statistics Canada puts Mont-Laurier’s population at 14,598 for July 2025. Immigrants account for 1.2%.
What stands out about the people of Mont-Laurier
Common-law couples
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 92% of Canadian towns; 27% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Mont-Laurier: 21% of residents speak English and French, above 75% of Canadian towns
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. 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
0.8% of residents have English as their mother tongue, against 66% across Canada’s towns. The comparison figure for bilingual residents is 7.5% across Canada’s towns.
Slower than most: +1% since 2016, behind 74% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 3% higher again. For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +4% across Quebec’s towns.
Fewer children under 15 than 69% of Canadian towns: 14%
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24; across Canada’s towns the figure is 11%. The largest age band is 60–64: 8.7% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Mont-Laurier, 48.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Mont-Laurier sits above 86% of Canadian towns for one-person households (39%)
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Census figures put one-parent families at 8.6% in Mont-Laurier. Elsewhere, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Common-law partners make up 29% in Mont-Laurier, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
27% of residents 15 and over are married (Canada’s towns: 46%). The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of renter households than 72% of Canadian towns, at 38%
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 74% of Canadian towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 20% date from 2001 or later, 19% from before 1961. Across the comparison, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Against a figure of 64% across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses in Mont-Laurier comes in at 61%.
$57,600 a year is the median household income here
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Mont-Laurier had $57,600 before tax, 33% below the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Quebec’s towns: $74,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 28% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 13% in Mont-Laurier, more than in 66% of Canadian towns
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
The figure for residents without Canadian citizenship is 0.4% in Mont-Laurier and 5.8% across Canada’s towns. For comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 80% of Canadian towns, at 24%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Where 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns, Mont-Laurier has 4.8%. Visible minority residents account for 0.9%. Elsewhere, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
Mont-Laurier ranks below 76% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 17%
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 22%, against 9.5%. The wider picture: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 55% of residents aged 15 and over
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.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 55%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 26% of residents are 65 or over.
41 towns of 14,347 to 14,875 people: this is the 6th oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Between La Crète (23.4) and Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy (57) lies the rest of the group. Closest in median age to Mont-Laurier are Truro (47.6), Long Sault (48), Grand Falls-Windsor (49.2) and Durham (49.6).
Every nearby town is older than Mont-Laurier
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Laurier | 14,598 | — | 48.8 | 26% | 1.2% |
| Lac-des-Écorces | 3,005 | 13.7 km | 50 | 25% | 0.7% |
| Ferme-Neuve | 2,816 | 18.1 km | 53.2 | 28% | 0.4% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Mont-Laurier’s residents
Is Mont-Laurier bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 21% are. Another 79% speak only French and 0.1% only English, and French is the first language of 98%.
How diverse is Mont-Laurier?
1.2% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 0.9% belong to a visible minority and 4.8% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Mont-Laurier?
76% are Christian and 24% have no religion; 0.3% follow another religion.
Is Mont-Laurier good for families?
Under 15: 14% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 47% of households. One-parent families: 8.6%. Schools near Mont-Laurier are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Mont-Laurier?
The median household in Mont-Laurier took in $57,600 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Mont-Laurier?
Mont-Laurier had about 14,598 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 14,180, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Mont-Laurier?
A median age of 48.8, older than 82% of Canadian towns. Children under 15 make up 14%, and people 65 and over 26%.
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).