Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer residents with no religion than 97% of Canadian towns: 12%
With a median age of 47.6, Saint-Raphaël is older than nearly four fifths of Canadian towns. Some 2,488 people live here, by the estimate for July 2025. Here, 82% of households live in a single-detached house. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone; here, 33%.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Raphaël
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 35% of adults, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, while 27% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Bilingual residents make up 20% in Saint-Raphaël, more than in 74% of Canadian towns
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. 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 99%, English 0.4%. Compared with other places, residents whose mother tongue is English are scarce here: 0.8%, fewer than in 97% of Canadian towns. Across Canada’s towns, 7.5% of residents speak English and French.
+3% since 2016: slower than 58% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 1% higher again. Across Canada’s towns, the typical town changed +4%; across Quebec’s towns, +4%.
In Saint-Raphaël, 22% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 68% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 10% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. 9.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 72% of Canadian towns. On average, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women.
Smaller households than 74% of Canadian towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
For Saint-Raphaël, the census puts one-parent families at 7.8%.
Saint-Raphaël: 35% of residents 15 and over live common-law, above 98% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Here 27% of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 46%. Across Canada’s towns, common-law partners come to 11%.
Saint-Raphaël ranks below 68% of Canadian towns on renter households: 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
33% of homes were built before 1961 and 20% in 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. Typically, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $69,500 a year
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
Half of Saint-Raphaël’s households had a total income below $69,500, 19% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Quebec’s towns the median is $74,000. 25% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Saint-Raphaël ranks below 73% of Canadian towns on residents who moved in within the year: 8.9%
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
In Saint-Raphaël, 2.1% of residents are immigrants, beside 17% across Canada’s towns. Residents without Canadian citizenship account for 0.8%. By way of comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
88% said they are Christian and 12% that they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents make up 1.3%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. In Saint-Raphaël, 2.1% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
In Saint-Raphaël, 7% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 99% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 20%, against 9.5%. For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 60% 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. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 60%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Saint-Raphaël
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Raphaël | 2,488 | — | 47.6 | 22% | 2.1% |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | 1,550 | 8.6 km | 42 | 22% | 1.3% |
| Saint-Vallier | 1,026 | 11.5 km | 49.6 | 24% | 2% |
| Armagh | 1,437 | 14.2 km | 52.8 | 27% | 1.4% |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 14.2 km | 41.6 | 20% | 1% |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse | 1,902 | 14.6 km | 49.2 | 28% | 2.2% |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | 2,739 | 14.8 km | 36.8 | 16% | 1.7% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. The Census Profile has no unpaid care, cars or internet access, and no change by age since 2016; ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns. Two medians frame each figure: one for Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, one for all Canadian towns of that size, with whole cities and First Nations reserves left out. Percentiles rank the town within Canada.
Questions about Saint-Raphaël’s residents
How diverse is Saint-Raphaël?
Immigrants make up 2.1% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 1.3% are members of a visible minority, and 2.1% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Saint-Raphaël?
Christian: 88%. No religion: 12%. Another religion: 0%.
Is Saint-Raphaël good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 56% of households are couple families and 7.8% one-parent families. Schools near Saint-Raphaël are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Saint-Raphaël?
$69,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Saint-Raphaël (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Saint-Raphaël?
Statistics Canada estimates 2,488 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 2,458 in Saint-Raphaël, 3% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Saint-Raphaël?
47.6 is the median age. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 22%.
Is Saint-Raphaël bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 20% are. Another 80% speak only French and 0% only English, and French is the first language of 99%.
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).