Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 95% of Canadian towns: 31%
With households in buildings of five or more storeys at 14%, Sillery is ahead of 83% of Canadian towns on that count. In Sillery, 33% of households are one person living alone. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 13,950 residents and 5,745 households locally.
What stands out about the people of Sillery
A bilingual neighbourhood
67% of residents can hold a conversation in both English and French, more than in 97% of Canadian towns; 32% speak French only and 0.6% English only. English & French ↓
Many graduates
A bachelor’s degree or higher is held by 73% of 25- to 64-year-olds, more than in 99% of Canadian towns, and a master’s by 20%. Qualifications ↓
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Sillery is 51; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 31% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
67% of residents speak English and French, more than in 97% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
Set against 66% across Canada’s towns, 3.2% of residents have English as their mother tongue in Sillery. The wider picture: 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Half of Sillery is over 51, older than 88% of Canadian towns
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%). The biggest five-year age group is 65–69, with 8% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sillery, 51. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Sillery households average 2.3 people, smaller than in 69% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
One-parent families make up 6.3%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns.
More common-law partners than 87% of Canadian towns: 24%
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 46% across Canada’s towns, just over a third of residents 15 and over are married here. Across Canada’s towns, the share of common-law partners is 11%.
Sillery sits below 69% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (49%)
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. 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: 45% predate 1961, 13% date from 2001 or later. Set beside that, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. In Sillery, 28% of households rent their home, beside 25% across Canada’s towns.
The median household brings in $119,800 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Sillery had $119,800 before tax, 39% above the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Quebec’s towns, the median household income is $74,000. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 20% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
8.9% of residents are immigrants
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
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
17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, against 8.9% in Sillery. Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (54%), then in the Americas (15%).
67% said they are Christian and 30% that they have no religion
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of visible minority residents trails 65% of Canadian towns: 6.2%. Few places have so few Indigenous residents: 0.2% here, fewer than in 94% of Canadian towns. Among other religions: Muslim (2.4%).
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 73% in Sillery, more than in 99% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 0.3% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 56% of adults
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 56% is close to the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
41 towns of 13,630 to 14,275 people: this is the 3rd oldest
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Median ages climb from 29.7 (Sandy Hill) to 55.2 (Tiny) across the group. The towns whose median age is nearest to Sillery’s: Convent Glen - Orleans Woods (46.8), Colchester County, Subdivision C (47.2), Matane (52.4) and Tiny (55.2).
A younger town than 1 of the 6 around it: Sillery
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sillery | 13,950 | — | 51 | 31% | 8.9% |
| Saint-Sacrement | 10,650 | 2.1 km | 47.8 | 33% | 12% |
| Cité-Universitaire | 22,546 | 2.5 km | 32.5 | 23% | 14% |
| Saint-Louis | 15,792 | 3.3 km | 41.1 | 23% | 17% |
| Montcalm | 13,572 | 3.4 km | 53.6 | 35% | 10% |
| Lévis | 160,882 | 3.5 km | 44 | 21% | 3.6% |
| Saint-Sauveur | 16,104 | 3.8 km | 37.8 | 17% | 8.4% |
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. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- 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.
Questions about Sillery’s residents
What is the average age in Sillery?
Half the residents are older than 51 and half younger, older than 88% of Canadian towns; 15% are children under 15 and 31% are 65 or over.
Is Sillery bilingual?
67% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 32% speak French only and 0.6% English only. French is the mother tongue of 89%.
How diverse is Sillery?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 8.9%. A visible minority makes up 6.2% and Indigenous residents 0.2%.
What religion are people in Sillery?
Most often Christian (67%) or no religion (30%); other religions make up 3.3%.
Is Sillery good for families?
Children under 15 are 15% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 56% of households and one-parent families 6.3%. Schools near Sillery are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sillery?
Median total household income in Sillery was $119,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Sillery?
13,950, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Sillery alone.
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).