Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Renter households: 81%, a higher share than 99% of Canadian towns
Of the immigrants living here, 60% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Few places have so few children under 15: 12% here, fewer than in 89% of Canadian towns. Lairet counted 15,251 residents and 8,940 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put residents without Canadian citizenship at 9.4% here.
What stands out about the people of Lairet
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 81% of households, more than in 99% of Canadian towns, and 91% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
56% of households are one person living alone, more than in 98% of Canadian towns; 22% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
A year before the census, 19% of residents lived elsewhere, 1.7 times the typical share; over five years, 52% moved. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Lairet, 40% of residents speak English and French, more than in 86% of Canadian towns
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
1.1% of residents have English as their mother tongue (Canada’s towns: 66%). Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns. At home: French 93%, English 0.9%.
Lairet: 22% of residents are 65 or over, above 67% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 25–29: just over one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across Canada’s towns. Set beside that, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. In Lairet, 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half of the neighbourhood’s residents are under 40.8, younger than in 58% of Canadian towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Lairet, 40.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
A higher share of one-person households than 98% of Canadian towns, at 56%
Household types, then household sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Across Canada’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Lairet, 1.7. Locally, 7.1% of households are one-parent families. The wider picture: 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of married residents 15 and over than 99% of Canadian towns, at 17%
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
43% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Against that, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners account for 23%.
Only 8.6% of households live in a single-detached house in Lairet
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys: 4.5%, above 72% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, households in single-detached houses come to 64%. 34% of homes were built before 1961 and 3.9% in 2001 or later.
Median household income: $49,400 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
At $49,400, the middle household in Lairet earned 43% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Quebec’s towns have a median of $74,000. Pandemic benefits reached 32% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Lairet: 19% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, above 91% 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 largest groups of immigrants were born in Africa (48%) and in Europe (16%). Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Immigrants are rarer here than in 61% of Canadian towns.
35% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 51% of Canadian towns
Visible minority and Indigenous identity, then religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
1.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity; across Canada’s towns the figure is 2.8%. Among other religions: Muslim (2.7%).
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 28%, a higher share than 52% of Canadian towns
Highest certificate, diploma or degree of residents aged 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 13% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 58% of residents aged 15 and over
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 58% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Youngest by rank: 14th of 41 towns of 14,947 to 15,514 people
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Median ages here range from 31.2 in Laurel to 62 in Parksville. The towns whose median age is nearest to Lairet’s: Limoges (40.8), Dupéré (40.8), East Willowdale (41) and Pincourt (42.4).
Lairet sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The closest towns, coloured by how old their residents are.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lairet | 15,251 | — | 40.8 | 22% | 11% |
| Vieux-Limoilou | 14,347 | 1.4 km | 38.7 | 18% | 7.6% |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 1.5 km | 46.1 | 29% | 14% |
| Maizerets | 14,571 | 1.7 km | 38.9 | 18% | 16% |
| Vanier | 13,494 | 2.2 km | 54.5 | 34% | 13% |
| Saint-Roch | 8,381 | 2.6 km | 38.8 | 17% | 14% |
| Jésuites | 15,792 | 2.7 km | 48.4 | 28% | 8% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Lairet’s residents
Is Lairet bilingual?
40% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 59% speak French only and 0.3% English only. French is the mother tongue of 89%.
How diverse is Lairet?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 11%. A visible minority makes up 14% and Indigenous residents 1.6%.
What religion are people in Lairet?
Most often Christian (61%) or no religion (35%); other religions make up 4.3%.
Is Lairet good for families?
Children under 15 are 12% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 29% of households and one-parent families 7.1%. Schools near Lairet are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Lairet?
Median total household income in Lairet was $49,400 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Lairet?
15,251, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Lairet alone.
What is the average age in Lairet?
Half the residents are older than 40.8 and half younger, younger than 58% of Canadian towns; 12% are children under 15 and 22% are 65 or over.
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).