Photo: Pierre-Paul Drouin · Public domainOlder than 95% of Canadian towns: half of Val-des-Sources is over 55.2
The figure for renter households is 45% in Val-des-Sources and 25% across Canada’s towns. About 7,303 people lived here in July 2025, Statistics Canada estimates. Here, 1.3% of residents are immigrants. Children under 15 are rarer here than in 75% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Val-des-Sources
Older than most towns
The middle resident of Val-des-Sources is 55.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 36% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
One-person households make up 44%, more than in 93% of Canadian towns, and 36% of residents are 65 or over. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A larger share of bilingual residents than 77% of Canadian towns: 24%
Unless a figure says otherwise, it is from the 2021 Census. 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
By its share of residents whose mother tongue is English (2%), Val-des-Sources is below 92% of Canadian towns. For comparison, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
Val-des-Sources’s population changed by +5% since 2016, more than in 53% of Canadian towns
Two census counts, five years apart, and Statistics Canada’s newest estimate.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025 is 3% higher again. Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +4% across Quebec’s towns.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of Canadian towns: 36%
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
Against a figure of 11% across Canada’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Val-des-Sources comes in at 8.3%. The usual figure: 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Val-des-Sources, 55.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
One-person households: 44%, a higher share than 93% of Canadian towns
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.
A household here has 1.9 people on average; across Canada’s towns, 2.4. In Val-des-Sources, nearly one in ten households are one-parent families. Across Canada’s towns, one-person households come to 27%.
Above 86% of Canadian towns: 22% of residents 15 and over live common-law
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
27% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Common-law partners make up 11% across Canada’s towns. Here, 29% of residents 15 and over are married.
52% of households live in a single-detached house, below 66% 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
Just over a third of homes were built before 1961 and 8.2% in 2001 or later. Across Canada’s towns, 64% of households live in a single-detached house. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns.
$48,000 a year: the median household income
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Val-des-Sources’s households had a total income below $48,000, 44% under the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The provincial yardstick is $74,000, the median across Quebec’s towns. 23% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Val-des-Sources: 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, above 56% 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
Recent arrivals are 47% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%. Residents without Canadian citizenship: 1% of the total.
Only 19% of residents said they have no religion in Val-des-Sources
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The figure for visible minority residents is 1.9% in Val-des-Sources and 15% across Canada’s towns. Typically, 35% of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Here, 2.2% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
Val-des-Sources ranks below 99% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 7.2%
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No diploma or degree: 23% here, 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.
43% of adults were employed in May 2021
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, above this 43%; 36% of residents are 65 or over.
Of 41 towns its size (7,183 to 7,441 people), the 3rd oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages climb from 31.8 (Blairmore Suburban Centre) to 58 (Trent Lakes) across the group. Next to Val-des-Sources on this scale come Hamptons (51.1), Hope (54.8), Chandler (56) and Trent Lakes (58).
Every nearby town is younger than Val-des-Sources
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-des-Sources | 7,303 | — | 55.2 | 36% | 1.3% |
| Danville | 3,944 | 4.9 km | 50.8 | 27% | 2% |
| Saint-Georges-de-Windsor | 1,034 | 8.3 km | 43.6 | 22% | 2.6% |
| Wotton | 1,448 | 9.2 km | 48.4 | 26% | 1.1% |
| Tingwick | 1,567 | 11.5 km | 46 | 19% | 2.7% |
| Kingsey Falls | 2,072 | 14.1 km | 41.6 | 15% | 1.3% |
| Cleveland | 1,624 | 18.0 km | 53.2 | 32% | 1.1% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about Val-des-Sources’s residents
What is the population of Val-des-Sources?
About 7,303, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 7,088 people in Val-des-Sources, 5% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Val-des-Sources?
The median age is 55.2, older than 95% of Canadian towns. 14% are under 15 and 36% 65 or older.
Is Val-des-Sources bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 24% are. Another 75% speak only French and 0.6% only English, and French is the first language of 96%.
How diverse is Val-des-Sources?
Immigrants: 1.3% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 1.9%. Indigenous identity: 2.2%.
What religion are people in Val-des-Sources?
19% said they have no religion and 80% that they are Christian; 0.5% named another faith.
Is Val-des-Sources good for families?
14% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 43% of households and one-parent families 8.7%. Schools near Val-des-Sources are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Val-des-Sources?
Half of Val-des-Sources’s households had more than $48,000 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).