Photo: Denis Lavoie · CC BY 3.0Below 93% of Canadian towns: 7.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in just over three quarters of Canadian towns. The 2021 Census found 1,290 households in Sainte-Luce; by July 2025 the population was about 2,808. Census figures put residents with no religion at 19% locally. The share of immigrants is 1.4%, against 17% across Canada’s towns.
What stands out about the people of Sainte-Luce
Common-law couples
31% of residents 15 and over live common-law, more than in 95% of Canadian towns; 29% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Sainte-Luce ranks above 78% of Canadian towns on bilingual residents: 25%
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. 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
Where 66% of residents have English as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns, Sainte-Luce has 0.5%. Typically, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
A +2% change since 2016: slower than 67% of Canadian towns
How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +4% across Quebec’s towns. The July 2025 estimate is down 1% on the census.
Half of Sainte-Luce is over 48.8, older than 82% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
60–64 is the most common age band: 9.8% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. The census found that 16% of residents are under 15 in Sainte-Luce.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sainte-Luce, 48.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
34% of households are one person living alone, a share 76% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
At 2.2 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. One-parent families account for 7.4%. To put it in context, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
Sainte-Luce sits above 95% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (31%)
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns, against 29% in Sainte-Luce. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
20% of households rent their home, fewer than in 62% of Canadian towns
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 single-detached houses: 71% here and 64% across Canada’s towns. 31% of homes were built before 1961 and 18% in 2001 or later. For renter households, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 25%.
Households here have a median income of $70,000 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Sainte-Luce’s households had a total income below $70,000, 19% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $74,000, the median across Quebec’s towns. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 26% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Sainte-Luce 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
By its share of residents without Canadian citizenship (0.5%), Sainte-Luce is below 96% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns.
80% said they are Christian and 19% that they have no religion
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
1.1% of residents belong to a visible minority, against 15% across Canada’s towns. Indigenous residents: 2.5% of the total.
Below 72% of Canadian towns: 18% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 11% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. The wider picture: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 58%
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 58%.
In its size band (2,766 to 2,849), the 13th oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
They run from Kuujjuaq, at 28.8, to Saint-Michel-des-Saints, at 58.8. The towns whose median age is nearest to Sainte-Luce’s: Senneterre (48.8), Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part (48.8), Bedford (50.4) and Atikokan (51.6).
A younger town than 1 of the 5 around it: Sainte-Luce
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Luce | 2,808 | — | 48.8 | 24% | 1.4% |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard | 3,018 | 11.6 km | 42.4 | 19% | 0.7% |
| Mont-Joli | 6,492 | 12.4 km | 52.8 | 30% | 0.4% |
| Rimouski | 51,756 | 17.6 km | 47.2 | 26% | 2.4% |
| Price | 1,701 | 18.0 km | 45.2 | 24% | 0% |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski | 1,239 | 18.1 km | 42.8 | 22% | 1.3% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- 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.
Questions about Sainte-Luce’s residents
Is Sainte-Luce good for families?
Children under 15 are 16% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 55% of households and one-parent families 7.4%. Schools near Sainte-Luce are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sainte-Luce?
Median total household income in Sainte-Luce was $70,000 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Sainte-Luce?
The latest figure is an estimate: 2,808 residents in July 2025. At the 2021 Census, Sainte-Luce counted 2,845, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Sainte-Luce?
Half the residents are older than 48.8 and half younger, older than 82% of Canadian towns; 16% are children under 15 and 24% are 65 or over.
Is Sainte-Luce bilingual?
25% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 75% speak French only and 0.2% English only. French is the mother tongue of 99%.
How diverse is Sainte-Luce?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 1.4%. A visible minority makes up 1.1% and Indigenous residents 2.5%.
What religion are people in Sainte-Luce?
Most often Christian (80%) or no religion (19%); other religions make up 0.9%.
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).