Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Below 80% of Canadian towns: 23% of residents said they have no religion
The median age in Saint-Michel is 45.6, higher than in 71% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 17,303 residents and 7,190 households in the neighbourhood. Locally, 17% of households rent their home. With immigrants at 3.9%, Saint-Michel is behind 85% of Canadian towns on that count.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Michel
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 30% of adults, more than in 94% of Canadian towns, while 36% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Saint-Michel sits above 84% of Canadian towns for bilingual residents (36%)
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 share of residents whose mother tongue is English trails 98% of Canadian towns: 0.6%. For bilingual residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 7.5%.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 54% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 9.2% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. 16% 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+
■ Saint-Michel, 45.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
One-person households: 24%, a lower share than 63% 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.
Across Canada’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Saint-Michel, 2.4. As a reference point, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns. In Saint-Michel, 8.3% of households are one-parent families.
Saint-Michel ranks above 94% of Canadian towns on common-law partners: 30%
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, the share of married residents 15 and over is 46%; Saint-Michel has 36%. Common-law partners: 11% across Canada’s towns, for comparison.
Households in single-detached houses: 61%, a lower share than 53% of Canadian towns
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 33% date from 2001 or later, 2.6% from before 1961. The comparison figure for households in single-detached houses is 64% across Canada’s towns.
The median household brings in $97,800 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
Half of Saint-Michel’s households had a total income above $97,800, 14% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The figure for Quebec’s towns: $74,000. 23% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Only 8.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Saint-Michel
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
Most immigrants were born in Africa (34%) or in Europe (24%). The share of residents who moved in within the year across Canada’s towns is 11%. Compared with other places, residents without Canadian citizenship are scarce here: 1.2%, fewer than in 86% of Canadian towns. Recent arrivals, from 2011 to 2021, are 28% of immigrants (typical: 27%); non-permanent residents add 0.1% of residents.
75% said they are Christian and 23% that they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, the share of visible minority residents is 15%; Saint-Michel has 5.2%. Census figures put Indigenous residents at 0.7% in the neighbourhood.
Saint-Michel: 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
65% 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.
The employment rate of 65% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (16,790 to 17,836 people), the 5th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Bay-Cloverhill is the youngest of them at 29.6; Saint-Charles-Borromée, at 57.2, the oldest. In age, Saint-Michel keeps company with Sooke (44.8), St.Andrew-Windfields (45.3), Cap-Rouge (47.3) and Unionville (47.5).
Median age: 4 of the 6 towns around Saint-Michel are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Michel | 17,303 | — | 45.6 | 19% | 3.9% |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | 17,558 | 2.2 km | 42 | 15% | 4.4% |
| Vieux-Bourg | 14,774 | 2.6 km | 45.7 | 25% | 7.5% |
| Chutes-Montmorency | 16,273 | 3.1 km | 46.7 | 23% | 5% |
| Vieux-Moulin | 15,935 | 3.5 km | 54.3 | 35% | 7.6% |
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 3.5 km | 46 | 23% | 5.1% |
| Boischatel | 9,250 | 4.8 km | 40.8 | 17% | 3.8% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so 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 Saint-Michel’s residents
What is the median income in Saint-Michel?
$97,800 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Saint-Michel (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Saint-Michel?
The 2021 Census counted 17,303 people in Saint-Michel.
What is the average age in Saint-Michel?
45.6 is the median age, older than 71% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Saint-Michel bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 36% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 0.1% speak only English and 65% only French; 96% grew up with French.
How diverse is Saint-Michel?
Immigrants make up 3.9% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 5.2% are members of a visible minority, and 0.7% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Saint-Michel?
Christian: 75%. No religion: 23%. Another religion: 1.9%.
Is Saint-Michel good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 65% of households are couple families and 8.3% one-parent families. Schools near Saint-Michel are on its Schools page.
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).