Photo: Anna Frodesiak · Public domainHalf of Sainte-Adèle is over 53.6, older than 92% of Canadian towns
Nearly two in five households are one person living alone (Canada’s towns: 27%). Statistics Canada puts Sainte-Adèle’s population at 15,216 for July 2025. Children under 15 account for 13%. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 79% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Sainte-Adèle
A bilingual town
Both official languages: 58% of residents speak English and French, more than in 94% of Canadian towns. Another 41% speak only French and 1.3% only English. English & French ↓
Older than most towns
Half of Sainte-Adèle’s residents are under 53.6 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 28% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Common-law couples
28% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 92% of Canadian towns; 28% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
In Sainte-Adèle, 58% of residents speak English and French, more than in 94% of Canadian towns
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated 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 figure for residents whose mother tongue is English is 4.8% in Sainte-Adèle and 66% across Canada’s towns. On average, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Sainte-Adèle grew +8% from 2016 to 2021, faster than 74% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 9%. The median across Canada’s towns is +4%, and across Quebec’s towns +4%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 94% of Canadian towns: 7.5%
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 11% of residents, 1.5 times the share across Canada’s towns. 28% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sainte-Adèle, 53.6. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women.
Smaller households than 90% of Canadian towns: 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.
The census found that 7.8% of households are one-parent families in Sainte-Adèle.
28% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 92% 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
Never married and not common-law: 27% of adults (typical: 27%). Typically, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Renter households: 31%, a higher share than 61% of Canadian towns
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
Newer homes outnumber old: 32% date from 2001 or later, 21% from before 1961. The wider picture: a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. Single-detached houses hold 59% of households, less than in 56% of Canadian towns, and buildings of five or more storeys 0.1%.
Median gross household income: $69,000 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
At $69,000, the middle household in Sainte-Adèle earned 20% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across Quebec’s towns has $74,000 before tax. The pandemic’s benefits: 32% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
6.5% 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
Immigrants here were most often born in Europe (68%), then in the Americas (14%). A year before the census, 15% lived somewhere else: more than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, the share of immigrants is 17%; Sainte-Adèle has 6.5%.
Sainte-Adèle ranks below 53% of Canadian towns on residents with no religion: 34%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Here 2.5% of residents belong to a visible minority, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 15%. Set beside that, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Indigenous residents account for 1.7%.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 57% of Canadian towns: 24%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 12%, against 9.5%. Typically, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
In work on census day: 54% of adults
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.
54% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 28% are 65 or more.
Oldest by rank: 3rd of 41 towns of 14,943 to 15,509 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
The youngest is Laurel (31.2) and the oldest Parksville (62). Gaspé (50.4), Powell River (53.2), Campbellford (55.2) and Parksville (62): the towns nearest Sainte-Adèle in median age.
Sainte-Adèle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Adèle | 15,216 | — | 53.6 | 28% | 6.5% |
| Piedmont | 3,667 | 6.4 km | 58 | 32% | 6.7% |
| Val-Morin | 3,226 | 6.7 km | 51.2 | 25% | 5.6% |
| Saint-Sauveur | 12,112 | 7.8 km | 58.4 | 35% | 7.2% |
| Val-David | 5,920 | 9.3 km | 50.4 | 26% | 7.8% |
| Morin-Heights | 5,086 | 9.5 km | 54.4 | 27% | 8.4% |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson | 3,842 | 11.1 km | 55.2 | 23% | 4.2% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- The census’s own words. These are self-reported answers: Indigenous identity, immigrant status, religion. The census’s “visible minority” comes from the Employment Equity Act (non-white in colour or race, Indigenous peoples aside), and the page sets each beside other towns without labelling any.
- 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.
Questions about Sainte-Adèle’s residents
Is Sainte-Adèle bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 58% are. Another 41% speak only French and 1.3% only English, and French is the first language of 90%.
How diverse is Sainte-Adèle?
Immigrants: 6.5% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.5%. Indigenous identity: 1.7%.
What religion are people in Sainte-Adèle?
34% said they have no religion and 65% that they are Christian; 1.1% named another faith.
Is Sainte-Adèle good for families?
13% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 47% of households and one-parent families 7.8%. Schools near Sainte-Adèle are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sainte-Adèle?
Half of Sainte-Adèle’s households had more than $69,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Sainte-Adèle?
About 15,216, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 14,010 people in Sainte-Adèle, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Sainte-Adèle?
The median age is 53.6, older than 92% of Canadian towns. 13% are under 15 and 28% 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).