Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.022% of residents are under 15, a share 91% of Canadian towns don’t reach
7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, against 11% across Canada’s towns. Across Saint-Urbain-Premier, 85% of households live in a single-detached house. On one-person households, Saint-Urbain-Premier sits lower than 73% of Canadian towns: 21%. This Quebec town had about 1,380 residents in July 2025, by Statistics Canada’s estimate, and 500 households at the 2021 Census.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Urbain-Premier
A town of families
Children under 15 are 22% of residents, more than in 91% of Canadian towns. Households average 2.6 people, and 7.9% are one-parent families. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 36% of adults, more than in 98% of Canadian towns, while 30% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
43% of residents speak English and French, more than in 87% 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
Set against 66% across Canada’s towns, 6% of residents have English as their mother tongue in Saint-Urbain-Premier. Typically, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Saint-Urbain-Premier grew +5% from 2016 to 2021, faster than 58% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Quebec’s towns the median is +4%, and across Canada’s towns +4%.
A median age of 38.8: Saint-Urbain-Premier is younger than 71% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Where nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns, Saint-Urbain-Premier has 16%. Here, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women.
Larger households than 67% of Canadian towns: 2.6 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.
7.9% of households are one-parent families.
More common-law partners than 98% of Canadian towns: 36%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The figure for married residents 15 and over is 30% in Saint-Urbain-Premier and 46% across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Below 58% of Canadian towns: 22% of households rent their home
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
Older homes outnumber new: 37% predate 1961, 24% date from 2001 or later. On average, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
The median household brings in $87,000 a year
Incomes here are for 2020, the year before the census, CERB and other pandemic benefits included. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
At $87,000, the middle household in Saint-Urbain-Premier earned close to the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Quebec’s towns has $74,000 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 27% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
1.9% of residents are immigrants
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
Compared with 17% across Canada’s towns, 1.9% of residents are immigrants here. Residents without Canadian citizenship account for 0.7%.
Saint-Urbain-Premier sits below 60% of Canadian towns for residents with no religion (32%)
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Compared with 15% across Canada’s towns, 2.3% of residents belong to a visible minority here. Residents with no religion make up 35% across Canada’s towns. Locally, 3.4% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 70% of Canadian towns: 19%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
With no certificate, diploma or degree: 15%, beside a typical 9.5%. Across the comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
65% of residents 15 and over were in work
The census counted work in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so read these rates as a pandemic snapshot. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 65%.
Older than Saint-Urbain-Premier: 5 of the 6 towns nearby
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Urbain-Premier | 1,380 | — | 38.8 | 16% | 1.9% |
| Sainte-Martine | 5,884 | 6.0 km | 41.2 | 18% | 2% |
| Saint-Isidore | 2,889 | 7.2 km | 40.4 | 17% | 3% |
| Saint-Rémi | 9,557 | 9.1 km | 40 | 19% | 3.3% |
| Mercier | 16,036 | 10.0 km | 39.2 | 14% | 12% |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement | 1,223 | 10.3 km | 42.8 | 18% | 2.9% |
| Sainte-Clotilde | 3,297 | 10.6 km | 37.6 | 13% | 3.1% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- 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-Urbain-Premier’s residents
Is Saint-Urbain-Premier bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 43% are. Another 55% speak only French and 1.9% only English, and French is the first language of 91%.
How diverse is Saint-Urbain-Premier?
Immigrants: 1.9% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.3%. Indigenous identity: 3.4%.
What religion are people in Saint-Urbain-Premier?
32% said they have no religion and 68% that they are Christian; 0.4% named another faith.
Is Saint-Urbain-Premier good for families?
22% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 63% of households and one-parent families 7.9%. Schools near Saint-Urbain-Premier are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Saint-Urbain-Premier?
Half of Saint-Urbain-Premier’s households had more than $87,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Saint-Urbain-Premier?
About 1,380, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 1,332 people in Saint-Urbain-Premier, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Saint-Urbain-Premier?
The median age is 38.8. 22% are under 15 and 16% 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).