Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Jésuites: 28% of residents are 65 or over, above 87% of Canadian towns
Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 12%, above 81% of Canadian towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 8.3%. Just over a quarter of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 74% of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census counted 15,792 residents in 7,875 households.
What stands out about the people of Jésuites
Many older residents
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Canadian towns; 6.4% are 80 or over, and 40% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 27% of adults, more than in 90% of Canadian towns, while 30% are married. Couples ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 40%, more than in 89% of Canadian towns, and 28% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More bilingual residents than 85% of Canadian towns: 37%
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
By its share of residents whose mother tongue is English (1%), Jésuites is below 95% of Canadian towns. The benchmark for bilingual residents across Canada’s towns: 7.5%.
Older than 81% of Canadian towns: half of Jésuites is over 48.4
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
The figure for children under 15 is 15% in Jésuites and 16% across Canada’s towns. More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 7.7% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Jésuites, 48.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A higher share of one-person households than 89% of Canadian towns, at 40%
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 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. Fewer one-parent families than in 64% of Canadian towns: 7.4%. The share of one-person households across Canada’s towns is 27%.
Jésuites sits above 90% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (27%)
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
By its share of married residents 15 and over (30%), Jésuites is below 87% of Canadian towns. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
In Jésuites, 43% of households rent their home, more than in 78% of Canadian towns
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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: 14% date from 2001 or later, 11% from before 1961. Compared with other places, households in single-detached houses are scarce here: 41%, fewer than in 77% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, renter households come to 25%.
Median household income: $70,600 a year
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Jésuites’s, at $70,600, is 18% lower. For Quebec’s towns, the median household income is $74,000. Pandemic benefits reached 23% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
9.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 63% of Canadian towns
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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 share of immigrants is 8%, against 17% across Canada’s towns. Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in just over two thirds of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Africa (41%) and in Europe (28%).
70% said they are Christian and 26% that they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
7.2% of residents belong to a visible minority, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Indigenous residents: 1.1% of the total.
Jésuites: 29% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, above 54% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Jésuites, 29%, and 46% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%). Those with no credential make up 6.7%, next to 9.5% in the typical town.
55% of residents 15 and over were in work
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 55%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
7th highest median age among 41 towns of 15,442 to 16,176
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The group spans Ledbury-Heron Gate-Ridgemont, youngest at 32.1, to Vieux-Moulin, oldest at 54.3. Next to Jésuites on this scale come East Riverside (46.5), Edenbridge-Humber Valley (47.6), Severn (49.6) and Almonte (50).
Of the 6 towns nearest Jésuites, 2 are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jésuites | 15,792 | — | 48.4 | 28% | 8% |
| Charlesbourg | 9,660 | 1.5 km | 49.6 | 30% | 6.6% |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 1.6 km | 46.1 | 29% | 14% |
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 2.4 km | 46 | 23% | 5.1% |
| Lairet | 15,251 | 2.7 km | 40.8 | 22% | 11% |
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 2.9 km | 54.3 | 35% | 7.6% |
| Maizerets | 14,571 | 3.1 km | 38.9 | 18% | 16% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Built up from dissemination areas: Statistics Canada stops at the municipality. Rounded counts are added together and medians estimated from the published groups. The 2016 areas don’t line up with these, so the change since 2016 isn’t shown.
- 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. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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.
Questions about Jésuites’s residents
Is Jésuites good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 47% of households and one-parent families 7.4%. Schools near Jésuites are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Jésuites?
Half of Jésuites’s households had more than $70,600 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Jésuites?
The 2021 Census counted 15,792 people in Jésuites.
What is the average age in Jésuites?
The median age is 48.4, older than 81% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 28% 65 or older.
Is Jésuites bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 37% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 0.2% speak only English and 62% only French; 92% grew up with French.
How diverse is Jésuites?
Immigrants: 8% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 7.2%. Indigenous identity: 1.1%.
What religion are people in Jésuites?
26% said they have no religion and 70% that they are Christian; 3.6% named another faith.
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).