Photo: Philippe Du Berger from Montréal · CC BY 2.0A median age of 35: Lorimier is younger than 90% of Canadian towns
Residents with no religion: 59%, above 96% of Canadian towns. For Lorimier, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 23%. Households in single-detached houses are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 19,935 residents and 10,895 households in the neighbourhood.
What stands out about the people of Lorimier
A bilingual neighbourhood
71% of residents can hold a conversation in both English and French, more than in 98% of Canadian towns; 24% speak French only and 4% English only. English & French ↓
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 72% of households, more than in 96% of Canadian towns, and 99% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 51%, more than in 97% of Canadian towns, and 11% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Lorimier’s residents are under 35 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 12% are under 15 and 11% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
71% of residents speak English and French, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
The figure for residents whose mother tongue is English is 8.1% in Lorimier and 66% across Canada’s towns. The comparison figure for bilingual residents is 7.5% across Canada’s towns.
Lorimier sits below 91% of Canadian towns for residents aged 65 and over (11%)
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
Here 12% of residents are under 15, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 16%. Across Canada’s towns, 19% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Lorimier, 35. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
A larger share of one-person households than 97% of Canadian towns: 51%
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.
Shared houses stand out: one in ten households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 95% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. Households here average 1.8 people each. Couple families are 32% of households (Canada’s towns 53%) and one-parent families 6.3% (8.2%).
Fewer married residents 15 and over than 99% of Canadian towns: 15%
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Common-law partners: 28%, above 91% of Canadian towns. As a yardstick, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
72% of households rent their home, more than in 96% of Canadian towns
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
13% of homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Across Lorimier, nearly one in ten households live in a building of five or more storeys. Renter households make up 25% across Canada’s towns.
The median household brings in $63,400 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Lorimier’s households had a total income below $63,400, 26% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Quebec’s towns: $74,000. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 38% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Above 88% of Canadian towns: 18% of residents are not Canadian citizens
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 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals are 45% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (54%), then in the Americas (19%). Across Canada’s towns, 5.8% of residents are not Canadian citizens.
Visible minority residents make up 16% in Lorimier, more than in 51% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (3.6%). Lorimier has fewer Indigenous residents than 85% of Canadian towns, at 0.8%. As a yardstick, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
Lorimier: 61% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 94% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 4.1% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 71% of adults
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.
71% of residents 15 and over have a job; across Canada’s towns the typical share is 58%.
7th lowest median age among 41 towns of 19,467 to 20,377
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Mitchell is the youngest of them at 28.8; Niagara-on-the-Lake, at 57.2, the oldest. The towns whose median age is nearest to Lorimier’s: North End (33.3), Mount Pleasant Village (34.1), Père-Marquette (35.6) and Purpleville (35.8).
Nearby, 5 of 6 towns have older populations than Lorimier
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorimier | 19,935 | — | 35 | 11% | 19% |
| Parc-Laurier | 18,312 | 1.1 km | 34.4 | 9% | 22% |
| Parc-Lafontaine | 16,386 | 1.2 km | 36.1 | 15% | 24% |
| Sainte-Marie | 33,699 | 1.4 km | 35.1 | 11% | 24% |
| Petite-Côte | 17,196 | 1.6 km | 40.2 | 17% | 23% |
| Vieux-Rosemont | 28,353 | 1.8 km | 38.5 | 15% | 18% |
| Louis-Hébert | 14,284 | 1.9 km | 37.3 | 12% | 16% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
- 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 Lorimier’s residents
How diverse is Lorimier?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 19%. A visible minority makes up 16% and Indigenous residents 0.8%.
What religion are people in Lorimier?
Most often Christian (34%) or no religion (59%); other religions make up 6.3%.
Is Lorimier good for families?
Children under 15 are 12% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 32% of households and one-parent families 6.3%. Schools near Lorimier are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Lorimier?
Median total household income in Lorimier was $63,400 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Lorimier?
19,935, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Lorimier alone.
What is the average age in Lorimier?
Half the residents are older than 35 and half younger, younger than 90% of Canadian towns; 12% are children under 15 and 11% are 65 or over.
Is Lorimier bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 71% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 4% speak only English and 24% only French; 74% grew up with French.
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).