Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.06.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 92% of Canadian towns
Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Verchères has 2.5%. This Quebec town had about 5,819 residents in July 2025, by Statistics Canada’s estimate, and 2,395 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put children under 15 at 19% in the town. 30% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 65% of Canadian towns.
What stands out about the people of Verchères
Common-law couples
Common-law unions take in 35% of adults, more than in 98% 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 85% of Canadian towns, at 39%
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
The share of residents whose mother tongue is English is 1%, against 66% across Canada’s towns. For bilingual residents, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 7.5%.
−1% since 2016: slower than 86% 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.
In Verchères, 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 79% of Canadian towns
Age bands of five years, the town’s bars against the typical town’s ticks.
The median age in Verchères is 42.8, higher than in 54% of Canadian towns. As a yardstick, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Canada’s towns. More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. A fifth of residents are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Verchères, 42.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Verchères households average 2.4 people, smaller than in 53% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Quebec’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Census figures put one-parent families at 7.7% in Verchères. 28% of households are one person living alone (Canada’s towns: 27%).
Common-law partners make up 35% in Verchères, more than in 98% of Canadian towns
Residents 15 and over by marital status; the census counts common-law couples separately.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
25% of adults have never married and don’t live common-law (typical: 27%). Locally, 29% of residents 15 and over are married. For common-law partners, the comparison across Canada’s towns is 11%.
71% of households live in a single-detached house, more than in 60% 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
Against a figure of 25% across Canada’s towns, the share of renter households in Verchères comes in at 23%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The share of households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns is 64%.
$90,000 a year is the median household income here
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 Verchères’s households had a total income above $90,000 and half below, close to the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Among Quebec’s towns, the typical figure is $74,000. The pandemic’s benefits: 27% of income recipients, against 28% in the typical town.
2.5% 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
41% of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns. The census found that 0.7% of residents are not Canadian citizens in Verchères.
70% said they are Christian and 30% 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
With visible minority residents at 2.9%, Verchères is behind 78% of Canadian towns on that count. Census figures put Indigenous residents at 0.8% here.
Verchères ranks below 62% of Canadian towns on degree holders aged 25 to 64: 22%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
No certificate at all: 11%, against 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
63% of adults were employed in May 2021
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.
63% of residents 15 and over have a job; across Canada’s towns the typical share is 58%.
18th highest median age among 41 towns of 5,706 to 5,931
Median age of the Canadian towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
The group spans Electoral Area B, Peace River, youngest at 30.6, to Osoyoos, oldest at 63.2. Remington Park (42.3), Waterloo (42.8), Parkview (43.8) and Westwood (44.5): the towns nearest Verchères in median age.
Of the 6 towns nearest Verchères, 3 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères | 5,819 | — | 42.8 | 20% | 2.5% |
| Saint-Sulpice | 3,688 | 6.2 km | 44.4 | 18% | 3.6% |
| Repentigny | 91,290 | 7.3 km | 44.4 | 21% | 13% |
| L'Assomption | 25,126 | 10.0 km | 40 | 17% | 5.7% |
| Charlemagne | 6,695 | 11.8 km | 49.2 | 25% | 5.7% |
| Varennes | 21,490 | 12.1 km | 42.4 | 16% | 3.6% |
| Lavaltrie | 15,996 | 13.1 km | 40.8 | 17% | 3.4% |
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. 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 Verchères’s residents
What is the median income in Verchères?
Half of Verchères’s households had more than $90,000 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Verchères?
About 5,819, by Statistics Canada’s estimate for July 2025. The 2021 Census found 5,759 people in Verchères, 1% fewer than 2016.
What is the average age in Verchères?
The median age is 42.8, older than 54% of Canadian towns. 19% are under 15 and 20% 65 or older.
Is Verchères bilingual?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 7.5% are bilingual; here 39% are. Another 61% speak only French and 0.1% only English, and French is the first language of 96%.
How diverse is Verchères?
Immigrants: 2.5% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 2.9%. Indigenous identity: 0.8%.
What religion are people in Verchères?
30% said they have no religion and 70% that they are Christian; 0% named another faith.
Is Verchères good for families?
19% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 59% of households and one-parent families 7.7%. Schools near Verchères are on its Schools page.
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).