Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 88% of Canadian towns: half of Val-Morin is over 51.2
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 97% of Canadian towns: 6.7%. With about 3,226 residents in July 2025, Val-Morin counted 1,485 households at the 2021 Census. One-person households: 37% of the total. Households in single-detached houses are more common here than in 73% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Val-Morin
A bilingual town
55% of residents can hold a conversation in both English and French, more than in 93% of Canadian towns; 44% speak French only and 1.1% English only. English & French ↓
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 32% of adults, more than in 96% of Canadian towns, while 27% are married. Couples ↓
Older than most towns
Val-Morin’s median age is 51.2; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 25% are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A higher share of bilingual residents than 93% of Canadian towns, at 55%
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. 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
4.9% of residents have English as their mother tongue, against 66% across Canada’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.5% of residents speak English and French across Canada’s towns.
+9% since 2016, a pace 76% of Canadian towns didn’t match
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. The July 2025 estimate adds another 3%.
Val-Morin: 25% of residents are 65 or over, above 80% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
Across Canada’s towns, the share of children under 15 is 16%; Val-Morin has 15%. As a yardstick, 19% of residents are 65 or over across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Val-Morin, 51.2. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Smaller households than 83% of Canadian towns: 2.1 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.
Across Val-Morin, 7.4% of households are one-parent families.
Above 96% of Canadian towns: 32% of residents 15 and over live common-law
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Across Canada’s towns, 46% of residents 15 and over are married; in Val-Morin, 27%. The comparison figure for common-law partners is 11% across Canada’s towns.
19% of households rent their home, fewer than in 64% 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 buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Typically, a quarter of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
$67,000 a year: where the middle household sits
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
Val-Morin’s median household took in $67,000 before tax, 22% less than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Quebec’s towns have a median of $74,000. 31% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
Residents who moved in within the year make up 13% in Val-Morin, more than in 65% of Canadian towns
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
Residents without Canadian citizenship: 2.6% here and 5.8% across Canada’s towns. On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. Census figures put immigrants at 5.6% in Val-Morin.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 71% of Canadian towns: 42%
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
3.9% of residents belong to a visible minority (Canada’s towns: 15%). Compared with other places, Indigenous residents are scarce here: 2%, fewer than in 61% of Canadian towns. The usual figure: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
In Val-Morin, 26% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher, fewer than in 51% of Canadian towns
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 9.4%, against 9.5%. For comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 52% of residents 15 and over had a job
Counted in May 2021, during COVID-19, these rates catch the job market before it had recovered. The census’s labour rates, in brief. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Fewer work here than in the typical town: 52%, against 58% across Canada’s towns. 25% of residents are 65 or over.
8th highest median age among 41 towns of 3,173 to 3,279
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The youngest is Coalhurst (32) and the oldest Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast (61.2). Next to Val-Morin on this scale come Electoral Area D, North Okanagan (49.6), Pincher Creek No. 9 (49.6), Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (51.6) and Annapolis County, Subdivision D (52).
Median age: 5 of the 6 towns around Val-Morin are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Morin | 3,226 | — | 51.2 | 25% | 5.6% |
| Val-David | 5,920 | 2.8 km | 50.4 | 26% | 7.8% |
| Sainte-Adèle | 15,216 | 6.7 km | 53.6 | 28% | 6.5% |
| Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | 12,154 | 8.8 km | 55.2 | 31% | 4.5% |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides | 1,651 | 10.8 km | 52 | 25% | 3.2% |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson | 3,842 | 11.0 km | 55.2 | 23% | 4.2% |
| Morin-Heights | 5,086 | 12.3 km | 54.4 | 27% | 8.4% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Some things the page can’t show: the Census Profile asks nothing about unpaid care, cars or internet access, and gives no change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins beyond visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- 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.
Questions about Val-Morin’s residents
What is the average age in Val-Morin?
The median age is 51.2, older than 88% of Canadian towns. 15% are under 15 and 25% 65 or older.
Is Val-Morin bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 55% are. Another 44% speak only French and 1.1% only English, and French is the first language of 90%.
How diverse is Val-Morin?
Immigrants: 5.6% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 3.9%. Indigenous identity: 2%.
What religion are people in Val-Morin?
42% said they have no religion and 57% that they are Christian; 1.2% named another faith.
Is Val-Morin good for families?
15% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 49% of households and one-parent families 7.4%. Schools near Val-Morin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Val-Morin?
Half of Val-Morin’s households had more than $67,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Val-Morin?
About 3,226, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 3,123 people in Val-Morin, 9% more than 2016.
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).