Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0New Richmond is older than 87% of Canadian towns: a median age of 50.8
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns, New Richmond has 8%. This Quebec town is home to some 3,947 people (July 2025 estimate), in 1,715 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Lower than in 86% of Canadian towns: 21% of residents said they have no religion.
What stands out about the people of New Richmond
Older than most towns
The middle resident of New Richmond is 50.8; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 27% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 29% of adults, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, while 30% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
New Richmond ranks above 87% of Canadian towns on bilingual residents: 43%
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. 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
The figure for residents whose mother tongue is English is 13% in New Richmond and 66% across Canada’s towns. As a reference point, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
−1% since 2016, a pace below 82% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 7%. Across Quebec’s towns the median is +4%, and across Canada’s towns +4%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 27% in New Richmond, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The share of children under 15 is 14%, against 16% across Canada’s towns. As a reference point, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ New Richmond, 50.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 83% 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.
One-parent families: 9.6% here and 8.2% across Canada’s towns. For New Richmond, the census puts one-person households at 35%.
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, a share 93% of Canadian towns don’t reach
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
27% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). At 30%, the share of married residents 15 and over is lower than in 88% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
More renter households than 64% of Canadian towns: 33%
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
Here 67% of households live in a single-detached house, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 64%. As a reference point, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. 31% of homes were built before 1961 and 13% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Households here have a median income of $63,600 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; New Richmond’s, at $63,600, is 26% lower. The provincial yardstick is $74,000, the median across Quebec’s towns. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 23% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
0.6% of residents are immigrants
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
Set against 17% across Canada’s towns, 0.6% of residents are immigrants in New Richmond. Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 95% of Canadian towns.
Indigenous residents make up 5% in New Richmond, more than in 70% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Set against 15% across Canada’s towns, 0.7% of residents belong to a visible minority in New Richmond. Measured more widely, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
In New Richmond, 22% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 61% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 15%, against 9.5%. As a yardstick, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
49% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
49% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 27% are 65 or more.
Of 41 towns its size (3,874 to 4,031 people), the 6th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 30.9 in Maple to 59.2 in Okanagan Falls. Callander (50.4), Danville (50.8), Colchester County, Subdivision A (51.2) and L'Islet (52): the towns nearest New Richmond in median age.
The towns around New Richmond are all older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- 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.
Questions about New Richmond’s residents
Is New Richmond good for families?
14% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 51% of households and one-parent families 9.6%. Schools near New Richmond are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in New Richmond?
Half of New Richmond’s households had more than $63,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of New Richmond?
About 3,947, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 3,683 people in New Richmond, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in New Richmond?
The median age is 50.8, older than 87% of Canadian towns. 14% are under 15 and 27% 65 or older.
Is New Richmond bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 43% are. Another 52% speak only French and 5.4% only English, and French is the first language of 85%.
How diverse is New Richmond?
Immigrants: 0.6% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 0.7%. Indigenous identity: 5%.
What religion are people in New Richmond?
21% said they have no religion and 79% that they are Christian; 0.3% named another faith.
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).