Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 94% of Canadian towns: 7.5%
Half of Saint-Malachie’s residents are over 49.2, older than in 83% of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 1,755 for July 2025. Renter households account for 13%. Here 1% of residents are immigrants, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 17%.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Malachie
Many older residents
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of Canadian towns; 9.6% are 80 or over, and 35% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 29% of adults, more than in 92% of Canadian towns, while 28% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
More bilingual residents than 76% of Canadian towns: 24%
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. 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
The share of residents whose mother tongue is English is 3%, against 66% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, bilingual residents come to 7.5%. At home: French 98%, English 1.8%.
Since 2016, Saint-Malachie has grown +10%, faster than 81% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 5%. Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +4% across Quebec’s towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 87% of Canadian towns: 28%
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 60–64: nearly one in ten residents. To put it in context, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns. Children under 15: 16%, near enough the figure across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women.
One-person households make up 35% in Saint-Malachie, more than in 79% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone. Locally, 6.4% of households are one-parent families.
29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Where 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, Saint-Malachie has 28%. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
More households in single-detached houses than 82% of Canadian towns: 86%
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. For comparison, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns.
Median gross household income: $63,200 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Saint-Malachie’s median household took in $63,200 before tax, 27% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Household incomes across Quebec’s towns have a median of $74,000. COVID-19 benefits went to 29% of residents with an income (typical: 28%).
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 76% of Canadian towns: 8.7%
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
In Saint-Malachie, 24% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 80% of Canadian towns
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Across Canada’s towns, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority; in Saint-Malachie, 0.7%. The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 35% across Canada’s towns. 2% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
In Saint-Malachie, 7.5% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 99% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 17%, beside a typical 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
64% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
The employment rate of 64% is above the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Around Saint-Malachie, 3 of 6 towns have a higher median age
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | — | 49.2 | 28% | 1% |
| Frampton | 1,374 | 6.3 km | 50.8 | 25% | 2.7% |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | 1,033 | 11.0 km | 57.6 | 33% | 1% |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 11.6 km | 40 | 19% | 0% |
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 12.0 km | 45.2 | 22% | 1% |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland | 1,840 | 14.2 km | 55.6 | 33% | 1.2% |
| Saints-Anges | 1,364 | 14.5 km | 39.6 | 18% | 0% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Saint-Malachie’s residents
Is Saint-Malachie good for families?
Under 15: 16% (Canada’s towns: 16%). Couple families: 54% of households. One-parent families: 6.4%. Schools near Saint-Malachie are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Saint-Malachie?
The median household in Saint-Malachie took in $63,200 in 2020, against $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Saint-Malachie?
Saint-Malachie had about 1,755 residents in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates; the 2021 Census counted 1,667, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Saint-Malachie?
A median age of 49.2. Children under 15 make up 16%, and people 65 and over 28%.
Is Saint-Malachie bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 24% are. Another 76% speak only French and 0.3% only English, and French is the first language of 95%.
How diverse is Saint-Malachie?
1% of residents are immigrants (Canada’s towns: 17%); 0.7% belong to a visible minority and 2% have an Indigenous identity.
What religion are people in Saint-Malachie?
76% are Christian and 24% have no religion; 0% follow another religion.
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).