Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainA higher share of Indigenous residents than 85% of Canadian towns, at 9.2%
Most recent wave: 52% of immigrants arrived in 2011–2021 (Canada’s towns: 27%). On renter households, Uplands sits lower than 77% of Canadian towns: 15%. There were 2,035 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 5,273 people. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 8.1%.
19% of residents are under 15, a share 78% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
More residents are 10–14 than any other five-year age: 7.1% of residents. By way of comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. With a median age of 40.3, Uplands is younger than 62% of Canadian towns. 18% of residents are 65 or over, against 19% across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Uplands, 40.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
Uplands sits below 70% of Canadian towns for one-person households (22%)
Households by family type and by the number of people in them.
Against Saskatchewan’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Nearly one in ten households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns, against 9.8% in Uplands. Across Canada’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone. The average household has 2.6 people.
A larger share of married residents 15 and over than 71% of Canadian towns: 53%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
The figure for common-law partners is 9.2% in Uplands and 11% across Canada’s towns. To put it in context, 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns.
Uplands ranks above 79% of Canadian towns on households in single-detached houses: 84%
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
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Typically, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 4.9% date from 2001 or later, 1% from before 1961.
Household income at the median: $103,800 a year
The income year is 2020: a year of pandemic benefits such as CERB, which the figures count. Income per household, before tax, with the groups it falls into.
Households by income · share of households
At $103,800, the middle household in Uplands out-earned the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000) by 21%. The median across Saskatchewan’s towns is $86,500. Pandemic payments such as CERB reached 23% of income recipients here, against 28% in the typical town.
13% of residents are immigrants
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
Where 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns, Uplands has 13%. Most immigrants were born in Asia (63%) or in Europe (14%).
Below 53% of Canadian towns: 34% of residents said they have no religion
Identity and faith, in the census’s categories.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Muslim (2.9%). Elsewhere, just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns. Set against 15% across Canada’s towns, 14% of residents belong to a visible minority in Uplands.
English is the mother tongue of 86%, and 3.7% speak French as well
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
Residents whose mother tongue is French make up 0.4%, against 1.5% across Canada’s towns. 6.2% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 0.5% speak neither official language. On bilingual residents, Uplands sits lower than 90% of Canadian towns: 3.7%.
Only 22% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher in Uplands
Education of residents 25 to 64, by highest credential.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 6.9% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. By way of comparison, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 61% of residents 15 and over had a job
The census was taken in May 2021, during the pandemic, so these rates show a labour market still recovering. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Employment runs above the middle of Canada’s towns (58%), at 61%.
In its size band (5,185 to 5,363), the 18th youngest of 41 towns
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Between Trumpeter Area (33) and Electoral Area L, Cariboo (60) lies the rest of the group. The closest ages to Uplands’s belong to Gourley (39.5), Carstairs (39.6), Belvedere (40.7) and Saint-Denis-de-Brompton (41.2).
Uplands and its 6 nearest towns: 1 of them are older
Neighbouring places and their median ages; each name opens its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uplands | 5,273 | — | 40.3 | 18% | 13% |
| Northeast | 9,670 | 1.8 km | 38.6 | 17% | 19% |
| Coronation Park | 7,307 | 2.6 km | 36.7 | 15% | 27% |
| Argyle North | 9,971 | 2.6 km | 36.2 | 12% | 21% |
| Regent Park | 2,876 | 3.2 km | 37 | 14% | 15% |
| Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge | 9,325 | 3.6 km | 41.2 | 16% | 11% |
| Sherwood No. 159 | 1,431 | 3.7 km | 36.8 | 13% | 3.8% |
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 Saskatchewan’s towns and Canada’s towns. Provincial and national yardsticks: Saskatchewan’s towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents, and all Canadian towns of that size. No whole city and no First Nations reserve is in either median.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
Questions about Uplands’s residents
What is the average age in Uplands?
Half the residents are older than 40.3 and half younger, younger than 62% of Canadian towns; 19% are children under 15 and 18% are 65 or over.
Is Uplands bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 3.7% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 96% speak only English and 0% only French; 0.4% grew up with French.
How diverse is Uplands?
Across Canada’s towns a typical 17% are immigrants; here, 13%. A visible minority makes up 14% and Indigenous residents 9.2%.
What religion are people in Uplands?
Most often Christian (60%) or no religion (34%); other religions make up 6.5%.
Is Uplands good for families?
Children under 15 are 19% of residents, against 16% across Canada’s towns. Couple families make up 60% of households and one-parent families 9.8%. Schools near Uplands are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Uplands?
Median total household income in Uplands was $103,800 in 2020, against a median of $86,000 across Canada’s towns.
What is the population of Uplands?
5,273, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Uplands alone.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. 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).