Photo: Malimage · CC BY-SA 3.0A higher share of renter households than 98% of Canadian towns, at 80%
Of the immigrants living here, 62% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. Maizerets has more residents without Canadian citizenship than 74% of Canadian towns, at 12%. At the 2021 Census, 14,571 people lived here, in 8,055 households. Residents with no religion account for 38%.
What stands out about the people of Maizerets
A neighbourhood of renters
Renters are 80% of households, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, and 91% of households live in an apartment. Homes ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 55%, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, and 18% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
A neighbourhood people move to
19% of residents lived at another address a year before the census, 1.7 times the typical share; 56% moved within five years. Immigrants & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Maizerets ranks above 85% of Canadian towns on bilingual residents: 38%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated 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
Against a figure of 66% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents whose mother tongue is English in Maizerets comes in at 1.2%. The share of bilingual residents across Canada’s towns is 7.5%. 6.5% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 1.3% speak neither official language.
Half of Maizerets is under 38.9, younger than 71% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The largest age band is 25–29: one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across Canada’s towns. In Maizerets, 14% of residents are under 15. The highest share aged 65 or over among Quebec’s towns is Centre’s: 46%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Maizerets, 38.9. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
In Maizerets, 55% of households are one person living alone, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
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.
In Maizerets the average household is 1.8 people, beside 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Locally, nearly one in ten households are one-parent families. Against that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Maizerets sits below 99% of Canadian towns for married residents 15 and over (18%)
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 11% across Canada’s towns, just over a fifth of residents 15 and over live common-law here. Singles who have never married make up 44% of adults, beside a typical 27%.
Only 5.8% of households live in a single-detached house in Maizerets
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
38% of homes were built before 1961 and 8.6% in 2001 or later. Higher than in 79% of Canadian towns: 10% of households live in a building of five or more storeys. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median household income: $47,500 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Maizerets’s median household took in $47,500 before tax, 45% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). $74,000 is the median household income across Quebec’s towns. COVID-19 benefits went to 32% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Residents who moved in within the year: 19%, a higher share than 91% 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
Immigrants here were most often born in Africa (53%), then in Europe (14%). For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%. 16% of residents are immigrants, against 4.2% across Quebec’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns.
Maizerets: 19% of residents belong to a visible minority, above 55% of Canadian towns
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (3.6%). On average, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Indigenous residents are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 2.4%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 55% of Canadian towns: 25%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 17% here, 9.5% in the typical town. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
57% 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. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
57% of residents 15 and over have a job, in line with the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 14,284 to 14,837 people: this is the 13th youngest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 23.4 (La Crète) to 57 (Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy) across the group. In age, Maizerets keeps company with Guildford (38.4), Vieux-Limoilou (38.7), Ridgehill / Armbro Heights (39.3) and Roncesvalles (39.6).
Maizerets sits below 4 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maizerets | 14,571 | — | 38.9 | 18% | 16% |
| Vieux-Limoilou | 14,347 | 1.6 km | 38.7 | 18% | 7.6% |
| Lairet | 15,251 | 1.7 km | 40.8 | 22% | 11% |
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 1.9 km | 54.3 | 35% | 7.6% |
| Saint-Rodrigue | 12,018 | 2.7 km | 46.1 | 29% | 14% |
| Saint-Roch | 8,381 | 2.9 km | 38.8 | 17% | 14% |
| Jésuites | 15,792 | 3.1 km | 48.4 | 28% | 8% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about Maizerets’s residents
How diverse is Maizerets?
Immigrants make up 16% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 19% are members of a visible minority, and 2.4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Maizerets?
Christian: 56%. No religion: 38%. Another religion: 6.5%.
Is Maizerets good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 29% of households are couple families and 8.8% one-parent families. Schools near Maizerets are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Maizerets?
$47,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Maizerets (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Maizerets?
14,571, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Maizerets alone.
What is the average age in Maizerets?
38.9 is the median age, younger than 71% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 18%.
Is Maizerets bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 38% are. Another 60% speak only French and 0.6% only English, and French is the first language of 85%.
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).