Photo: abdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0A median age of 53.2: Sorel-Tracy is older than 92% of Canadian towns
Set against 16% across Canada’s towns, 13% of residents are under 15 in Sorel-Tracy. Here, 2.6% of residents are immigrants. The town has fewer residents with no religion than 78% of Canadian towns, at 24%. About 36,537 people lived locally in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates.
What stands out about the people of Sorel-Tracy
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Sorel-Tracy is 53.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 31% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 40%, more than in 88% of Canadian towns, and 31% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 25% of adults, more than in 88% of Canadian towns, while 29% are married. Couples ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 80% of Canadian towns, at 29%
The 2021 Census is the source of every figure here unless a date says otherwise. 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
Across Canada’s towns, the share of residents whose mother tongue is English is 66%; Sorel-Tracy has 1.1%. To put it in context, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Sorel-Tracy changed by +1% from 2016 to 2021, slower than 70% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
For comparison, the median is +4% across Canada’s towns and +4% across Quebec’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 31%, a higher share than 94% 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: 9.4% of residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. At 8.3%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 88% of Canadian towns. As a yardstick, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Sorel-Tracy, 53.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
More one-person households than 88% of Canadian towns: 40%
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Sorel-Tracy the average household is 2 people, beside 2.4 across Canada’s towns. One-parent families: nearly a tenth of the total. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone.
Common-law partners: 25%, a higher share than 88% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
In Sorel-Tracy, 29% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 46% across Canada’s towns. Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns.
Renter households: 40%, a higher share than 75% 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
At 0.9%, the share of households in buildings of five or more storeys is in line with the figure across Canada’s towns. Elsewhere, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns. 53% of households live in a single-detached house.
$60,800 a year: the median household income
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
At $60,800, the middle household in Sorel-Tracy earned 29% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Within Quebec’s towns, the household in the middle had $74,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 23% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
2.6% of residents are immigrants
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
Set against 5.8% across Canada’s towns, 1.2% of residents are not Canadian citizens in Sorel-Tracy. In Sorel-Tracy, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
75% said they are Christian and 24% that they have no religion
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of Indigenous residents is 1.4%, against 2.8% across Canada’s towns. Visible minority residents: 2.5% of the total.
Fewer degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 86% of Canadian towns: 14%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 17% here, 9.5% in the typical town. The wider picture: 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
49% 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. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
49% of residents 15 and over have a job, against a typical 58% across Canada’s towns; 31% are 65 or more.
In its size band (33,969 to 39,194), the 1st oldest of 41 towns
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The group spans Strawberry Hill, youngest at 35.2, to Sorel-Tracy, oldest at 53.2. Next to Sorel-Tracy on this scale come Fort Erie (51.6) and Penticton (52).
Nearby, 1 of 6 towns have older populations than Sorel-Tracy
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorel-Tracy | 36,537 | — | 53.2 | 31% | 2.6% |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | 1,602 | 2.1 km | 50.8 | 25% | 2.2% |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | 2,170 | 4.4 km | 52.4 | 29% | 1.2% |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | 2,599 | 6.4 km | 50 | 23% | 1.6% |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | 2,770 | 6.8 km | 54 | 30% | 2% |
| Berthierville | 4,591 | 7.8 km | 52.4 | 31% | 1.3% |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | 2,298 | 10.4 km | 48.8 | 22% | 1.8% |
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. For each measure we take the median of Quebec’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- 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 Sorel-Tracy’s residents
What is the population of Sorel-Tracy?
About 36,537, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 35,165 people in Sorel-Tracy, 1% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Sorel-Tracy?
The median age is 53.2, older than 92% of Canadian towns. 13% are under 15 and 31% 65 or older.
Is Sorel-Tracy bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 29% are. Another 71% speak only French and 0.3% only English, and French is the first language of 96%.
How diverse is Sorel-Tracy?
Immigrants: 2.6% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.5%. Indigenous identity: 1.4%.
What religion are people in Sorel-Tracy?
24% said they have no religion and 75% that they are Christian; 0.8% named another faith.
Is Sorel-Tracy good for families?
13% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 46% of households and one-parent families 8.5%. Schools near Sorel-Tracy are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sorel-Tracy?
Half of Sorel-Tracy’s households had more than $60,800 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
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).