Photo: Pierre-Olivier Fortin · CC BY-SA 3.0Loretteville ranks above 81% of Canadian towns on one-person households: 36%
Most recent wave: 52% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). There were 7,285 households in Loretteville at the 2021 Census, home to 15,653 people. The census found that nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over here. Higher than in three quarters of Canadian towns: 40% of households rent their home.
What stands out about the people of Loretteville
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 29% of adults, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, while 28% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More bilingual residents than 85% of Canadian towns: 38%
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
In Loretteville, 1.8% of residents have English as their mother tongue, beside 66% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French.
A median age of 44: Loretteville is older than 62% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 9.4%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.3% of residents.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Loretteville, 44. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% 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.
Here, 8.8% of households are one-parent families.
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Across Canada’s towns, 46% of residents 15 and over are married; in Loretteville, 28%. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
Only 48% of households live in a single-detached house in Loretteville
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
Older homes outnumber new: 21% predate 1961, 17% date from 2001 or later. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. At 0.8%, the share of households in buildings of five or more storeys is in line with the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $74,000 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
At $74,000, the middle household in Loretteville earned 14% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Quebec’s towns has $74,000 before tax. In 2020, 26% of income recipients drew a COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefit; the typical town had 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 10%, a lower share than 57% 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
The share of immigrants trails just over four fifths of Canadian towns: 4.9%. Across Canada’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. Locally, 2.2% of residents are not Canadian citizens.
Fewer residents with no religion than 70% of Canadian towns: 28%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
4.8% of residents belong to a visible minority; across Canada’s towns the figure is 15%. Elsewhere, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. The census found that 3.3% of residents have an Indigenous identity in Loretteville.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 24%, a lower share than 57% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 8.9% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
61% of residents 15 and over were in work
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 61%.
Oldest by rank: 18th of 41 towns of 15,285 to 16,007 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Parksville is the oldest at 62, Ledbury-Heron Gate-Ridgemont the youngest at 32.1. South Windsor (43.5), Newtonbrook East (44), Kenora (44.4) and High River (44.8): the towns nearest Loretteville in median age.
Among its 6 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Loretteville
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loretteville | 15,653 | — | 44 | 23% | 4.9% |
| Wendake | 2,234 | 1.5 km | 46 | 21% | 0% |
| Des Châtels | 14,836 | 1.7 km | 42.8 | 20% | 5% |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 3.4 km | 38.8 | 12% | 3.5% |
| Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf | 37,164 | 4.4 km | 47.1 | 25% | 6.2% |
| Val-Bélair | 30,003 | 4.4 km | 37 | 12% | 3.8% |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | 9,985 | 5.3 km | 40.2 | 15% | 1.7% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. A figure here is set beside two middles, the median across Quebec’s places of 2,500 people or more and the median across all Canadian towns that size; reserves and entire cities are excluded from both.
- 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.
Questions about Loretteville’s residents
Is Loretteville good for families?
16% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 49% of households and one-parent families 8.8%. Schools near Loretteville are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Loretteville?
Half of Loretteville’s households had more than $74,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Loretteville?
15,653, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Loretteville alone.
What is the average age in Loretteville?
The median age is 44, older than 62% of Canadian towns. 16% are under 15 and 23% 65 or older.
Is Loretteville bilingual?
38% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 62% speak French only and 0% English only. French is the mother tongue of 94%.
How diverse is Loretteville?
Immigrants: 4.9% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 4.8%. Indigenous identity: 3.3%.
What religion are people in Loretteville?
28% said they have no religion and 69% that they are Christian; 2.4% 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).