Photo: Harfang · CC BY 3.0Nantes ranks below 90% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 18%
Half of Nantes’s residents are over 46, older than in 72% of Canadian towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 1,412 residents; the 2021 Census found 610 households. The census found that 1.4% of residents are immigrants in the town. Set against 64% across Canada’s towns, 86% of households live in a single-detached house locally.
What stands out about the people of Nantes
Common-law couples
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 36% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Nantes ranks above 72% of Canadian towns on bilingual residents: 18%
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Where nearly two thirds of residents have English as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, Nantes has 0.7%. The benchmark for bilingual residents across Canada’s towns: 7.5%. At home: French 98%, English 1.1%.
+1% since 2016, a pace below 72% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 2%. Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Quebec’s towns, +4%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.4%, a lower share than 74% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Across Canada’s towns, 16% of residents are under 15; in Nantes, 17%. No age band is larger than 55–59: nearly one in ten residents. Among Quebec’s towns, Centre has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 46%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women.
Households here average 2.3 people, below 64% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone; in Nantes, 29%. In Nantes, 7.4% of households are one-parent families.
Nantes sits above 93% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (29%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
In Nantes, 36% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 46% across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners: 11% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Below 62% of Canadian towns: 20% of households rent their home
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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. Older homes outnumber new: 25% predate 1961, 17% date from 2001 or later.
Households here have a median income of $68,000 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Household incomes run lower in Nantes: half had less than $68,000, 21% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Quebec’s towns, the median household income is $74,000. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 33% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 9.5%, a lower share than 65% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
Here 1.4% of residents are not Canadian citizens, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 5.8%. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
81% said they are Christian and 18% that they have no religion
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents are about as common here as across Canada’s towns: 3.6%. The census found that 2.9% of residents belong to a visible minority in Nantes.
In Nantes, 6.7% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 99% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Nantes, 6.7%, and 50% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%).
A job for 61% of residents aged 15 and over
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 61%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
2 in 3 nearby towns have a higher median age than Nantes
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes | 1,412 | — | 46 | 19% | 1.4% |
| Lac-Mégantic | 5,947 | 4.5 km | 53.6 | 33% | 1.9% |
| Frontenac | 1,855 | 9.0 km | 46 | 23% | 1.1% |
| Lac-Drolet | 1,066 | 17.4 km | 53.6 | 27% | 0% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The census’s own words. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered them. “Visible minority” follows the Employment Equity Act, meaning people other than Indigenous peoples who are non-white in colour or race. We compare these figures across towns; none is a label for a town.
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. The middle of Quebec’s towns of 2,500 or more comes first, the middle of all Canadian towns second; cities as a whole and First Nations reserves stay out, and percentiles are within Canada.
- 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 Nantes’s residents
What is the population of Nantes?
Statistics Canada estimates 1,412 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 1,388 in Nantes, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Nantes?
46 is the median age. Under 15: 17%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Nantes bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 18% are. Another 82% speak only French and 0.4% only English, and French is the first language of 97%.
How diverse is Nantes?
Immigrants make up 1.4% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 2.9% are members of a visible minority, and 3.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Nantes?
Christian: 81%. No religion: 18%. Another religion: 1.4%.
Is Nantes good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 17%. 60% of households are couple families and 7.4% one-parent families. Schools near Nantes are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Nantes?
$68,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Nantes (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
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).