Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Roxton Pond: 20% of residents are under 15, above 82% of Canadian towns
Compared with 17% across Canada’s towns, 2.6% of residents are immigrants here. The latest estimate, for July 2025, is 4,884 residents; the 2021 Census found 1,740 households. Here, 81% of households live in a single-detached house. Roxton Pond has fewer visible minority residents than 86% of Canadian towns, at 1.9%.
What stands out about the people of Roxton Pond
Common-law couples
36% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 98% of Canadian towns; 31% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 82% of Canadian towns, at 31%
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Knowledge of the two official languages, first languages, and the language of home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: French 97%, English 1.3%. Fewer residents whose mother tongue is English than in 93% of Canadian towns: 1.7%. Bilingual residents make up 7.5% across Canada’s towns.
Growth of +11% since 2016 puts Roxton Pond ahead of 85% 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%. Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 16% higher again.
Roxton Pond ranks below 79% of Canadian towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 9.1%
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
With a median age of 40.8, Roxton Pond is younger than 58% of Canadian towns. Against that, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 17% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Roxton Pond, 40.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women.
Only 25% of households are one person living alone in Roxton Pond
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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. Here, 7.7% of households are one-parent families. One-person households make up 27% across Canada’s towns.
Above 98% of Canadian towns: 36% of residents 15 and over live common-law
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Compared with 46% across Canada’s towns, 31% of residents 15 and over are married here. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of renter households than 66% of Canadian towns, at 18%
Occupied homes by type, by owners and renters, and by when they were built. 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. Across Canada’s towns, 25% of households rent their home.
Before tax, the median household income is $78,000 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Roxton Pond’s, at $78,000, is 9% lower. $74,000 is the median household income across Quebec’s towns. Pandemic benefits reached 32% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Roxton Pond ranks above 60% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 12%
Immigrants, newcomers and movers.
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
Of the immigrants living here, 14% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%. In Roxton Pond, 0.9% of residents are not Canadian citizens. As a yardstick, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 58% of Canadian towns, at 32%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Indigenous residents: 1.2% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns. Typically, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 94% of Canadian towns: 11%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 20%, against 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 65% of adults
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
More people work here than in the typical town: 65%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Among 41 towns of 4,778 to 4,994 people, the 19th youngest
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Between Empire Park (30.9) and Electoral Area H, Nanaimo (60) lies the rest of the group. Nearest to Roxton Pond in age: Lakewood Urban Centre (40.6), Westmount (40.8), Anthony Henday South East (41.5) and Falkirk East (41.8).
Roxton Pond and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | — | 40.8 | 17% | 2.6% |
| Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton | 2,267 | 8.3 km | 39.2 | 14% | 0.9% |
| Granby | 72,180 | 9.6 km | 47.6 | 26% | 5.3% |
| Saint-Valérien-de-Milton | 1,794 | 9.7 km | 41.6 | 16% | 2.6% |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford | 1,552 | 10.6 km | 40.8 | 18% | 3.3% |
| Roxton | 1,180 | 12.0 km | 44 | 21% | 1.3% |
| Shefford | 7,704 | 12.4 km | 47.2 | 20% | 3.4% |
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. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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.
Questions about Roxton Pond’s residents
What is the population of Roxton Pond?
Statistics Canada estimates 4,884 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 4,224 in Roxton Pond, 11% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Roxton Pond?
40.8 is the median age, younger than 58% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 20%. 65 and over: 17%.
Is Roxton Pond bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 31% are. Another 69% speak only French and 0.2% only English, and French is the first language of 96%.
How diverse is Roxton Pond?
Immigrants make up 2.6% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 1.9% are members of a visible minority, and 1.2% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Roxton Pond?
Christian: 68%. No religion: 32%. Another religion: 0.1%.
Is Roxton Pond good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 20%. 60% of households are couple families and 7.7% one-parent families. Schools near Roxton Pond are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Roxton Pond?
$78,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Roxton Pond (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
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).