Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Stanislas is older than 97% of Canadian towns: a median age of 56.8
7.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (Canada’s towns: 11%). Few places have as many one-person households: 39% here, more than in 87% of Canadian towns. Its population is much the same as in 2016. Here, just over four in five households live in a single-detached house.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Stanislas
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Saint-Stanislas is 56.8; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 33% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 29% of adults, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, while 34% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Bilingual residents make up 22% in Saint-Stanislas, more than in 75% of Canadian towns
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at 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 trails 99% of Canadian towns: 0.5%. Bilingual residents: 7.5% across Canada’s towns, for comparison. At home: French 98%, English 1%.
−1% since 2016, a pace below 85% of Canadian towns
How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
The July 2025 estimate adds another 4%.
33% of residents are 65 or over, a share 96% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Across Canada’s towns, 16% of residents are under 15; in Saint-Stanislas, 12%. The wider picture: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women.
Saint-Stanislas households average 2 people, smaller than in 90% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Here 5% of households are one-parent families, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 8.2%.
Saint-Stanislas: 29% of residents 15 and over live common-law, above 93% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
25% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. At 34%, the share of married residents 15 and over is lower than in 79% of Canadian towns. The benchmark for common-law partners across Canada’s towns: 11%.
Saint-Stanislas sits above 51% of Canadian towns for renter households (26%)
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. 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 nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Older homes outnumber new: 49% predate 1961, 9.9% date from 2001 or later. By way of comparison, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Half of households earn more than $55,200 a year
The census asked about income in 2020: a pandemic year, with CERB and other emergency benefits counted in. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $55,200, the middle household in Saint-Stanislas earned 36% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). For Quebec’s towns, the median household income is $74,000. Pandemic benefits reached 21% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 8.3% in Saint-Stanislas, less than in 79% of Canadian towns
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
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
2.4% of residents are immigrants, against 4.2% across Quebec’s towns and 17% across Canada’s towns. Residents without Canadian citizenship are rarer here than in 99% of Canadian towns. On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
Residents with no religion: 19%, a lower share than 88% of Canadian towns
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. The wider picture: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. The share of Indigenous residents stands at 3.4%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 16% in Saint-Stanislas, less than in 81% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the bottom of the ladder, 14% hold no certificate of any kind, against 9.5% in the typical town. As a reference point, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
52% of residents 15 and over were in work
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
The employment rate of 52% is below the typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 33% of residents are 65 or over.
Saint-Stanislas is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbours
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Stanislas | 1,040 | — | 56.8 | 33% | 2.4% |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan | 1,137 | 6.3 km | 57.2 | 33% | 2.9% |
| Saint-Narcisse | 1,848 | 6.7 km | 50.8 | 28% | 2% |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | 2,036 | 16.0 km | 55.6 | 32% | 1% |
| Batiscan | 1,006 | 16.9 km | 58.4 | 31% | 1% |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 18.4 km | 54 | 28% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Tite | 3,759 | 18.5 km | 57.6 | 36% | 0.8% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. 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.
Questions about Saint-Stanislas’s residents
Is Saint-Stanislas bilingual?
22% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 79% speak French only and 0% English only. French is the mother tongue of 98%.
How diverse is Saint-Stanislas?
Immigrants: 2.4% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 0%. Indigenous identity: 3.4%.
What religion are people in Saint-Stanislas?
19% said they have no religion and 81% that they are Christian; 0% named another faith.
Is Saint-Stanislas good for families?
12% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 53% of households and one-parent families 5%. Schools near Saint-Stanislas are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Saint-Stanislas?
Half of Saint-Stanislas’s households had more than $55,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Saint-Stanislas?
About 1,040, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 1,001 people in Saint-Stanislas, about the same as 2016.
What is the average age in Saint-Stanislas?
The median age is 56.8. 12% are under 15 and 33% 65 or older.
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).