Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Residents who moved in within the year: 5%, a lower share than 99% of Canadian towns
The median age in Roxton Falls is 46.4, higher than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 1,399 residents; the 2021 Census found 615 households. Residents with no religion account for 25%. Households in Roxton Falls hold 2.2 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4).
What stands out about the people of Roxton Falls
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 28% of adults, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, while 31% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Roxton Falls: 20% of residents speak English and French, above 74% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. 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
0.8% of residents have English as their mother tongue; across Canada’s towns the figure is 66%. Measured more widely, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Roxton Falls changed by +1% from 2016 to 2021, behind 69% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns, half of towns changed by more than +4%; across Quebec’s towns, by more than +4%. The July 2025 estimate adds another 6%.
In Roxton Falls, 8.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 84% of Canadian towns
Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
22% of residents are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
In Roxton Falls, 35% of households are one person living alone, more than in 78% 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 9.8%, against 8.2% across Canada’s towns. The benchmark for one-person households across Canada’s towns: 27%.
Common-law partners make up 28% in Roxton Falls, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The share of married residents 15 and over trails 85% of Canadian towns: 31%. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
More renter households than 69% of Canadian towns: 36%
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. 32% of homes were built before 1961 and 14% in 2001 or later. Renter households make up 25% across Canada’s towns. Against a figure of 64% across Canada’s towns, the share of households in single-detached houses in Roxton Falls comes in at 65%.
$59,600 a year: the median household income
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $59,600, the middle household in Roxton Falls earned 31% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns the median is $74,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 29% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
0.8% 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
Against a figure of 17% across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants in Roxton Falls comes in at 0.8%. What’s more, residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 92% of Canadian towns.
75% said they are Christian and 25% 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
Visible minority residents are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Indigenous residents: 1.5% of the total.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 99% of Canadian towns: 5.4%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Across Canada’s towns, 27% of 25- to 64-year-olds hold a degree; in Roxton Falls, 5.4%, and 40% have a college or trades credential (typical: 29%).
Employment: 57% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment here, 57%, matches the middle of Canada’s towns (58%) within a couple of points.
Around Roxton Falls, 1 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxton Falls | 1,399 | — | 46.4 | 22% | 0.8% |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 3.4 km | 44 | 21% | 1.3% |
| Acton Vale | 7,945 | 8.5 km | 49.6 | 27% | 1.5% |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 12.8 km | 40.8 | 18% | 3.3% |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 13.7 km | 41.6 | 16% | 2.6% |
| Saint-Théodore-d'Acton | 1,650 | 14.6 km | 40.4 | 18% | 2.2% |
| Upton | 2,149 | 14.9 km | 43.6 | 19% | 2.7% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
Questions about Roxton Falls’s residents
What is the population of Roxton Falls?
Roxton Falls had about 1,399 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 1,322, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Roxton Falls?
A median age of 46.4. Children under 15 make up 17%, and people 65 and over 22%.
Is Roxton Falls bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 20% are. Another 80% speak only French and 0.4% only English, and French is the first language of 98%.
How diverse is Roxton Falls?
0.8% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 0% belong to a visible minority and 1.5% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Roxton Falls?
75% are Christian and 25% have no religion; 0% follow another religion.
Is Roxton Falls good for families?
Under 15: 17% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 50% of households. One-parent families: 9.8%. Schools near Roxton Falls are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Roxton Falls?
The median household in Roxton Falls took in $59,600 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). 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).