Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.027% of residents are 65 or over, a share 86% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The typical household size is 2.1 people, against 2.4 across Canada’s towns. More households in single-detached houses than in 70% of Canadian towns: 78%. The 2021 Census found 1,110 households in Rosetown; by July 2025 the population was about 2,600. Locally, 4% of residents have an Indigenous identity.
What stands out about the people of Rosetown
Many older residents
27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 86% of Canadian towns; 11% are 80 or over, and 39% of households are one person living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Rosetown’s population moved +2% on 2016, less than in 62% of Canadian towns
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. The census counts of 2016 and 2021, the estimate after them, and the change set beside other towns.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Across Canada’s towns the median change is +4%; across Saskatchewan’s towns, ±0%.
Rosetown is older than 66% of Canadian towns: a median age of 44.8
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 7.2% of residents. Residents aged 15 to 24 are about as common here as across Canada’s towns, at 11%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Rosetown, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women.
Above 87% of Canadian towns: 39% of households are one person living alone
Private households by type and size.
Against Saskatchewan’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
In Rosetown, 6.3% of households are one-parent families, beside 8.2% across Canada’s towns. Set beside that, 27% of households are one person living alone across Canada’s towns.
7.4% of residents 15 and over live common-law, fewer than in 77% of Canadian towns
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Never married and not common-law: 23% of adults (typical: 27%). Typically, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
A lower share of renter households than 60% of Canadian towns, at 21%
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
11% of homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Renter households make up 25% across Canada’s towns. Older homes outnumber new: 29% predate 1961, 12% date from 2001 or later. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns.
Median gross household income: $77,000 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. What households took in before tax, at the middle and across income groups.
Households by income · share of households
The median across Canada’s towns is $86,000; Rosetown’s, at $77,000, is 10% lower. Across Saskatchewan’s towns, half of households had more than $86,500 before tax. Pandemic benefits reached 18% of residents with an income, against a typical 28%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 12% in Rosetown, more than in 62% 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
In Rosetown, 13% of residents are immigrants, beside 17% across Canada’s towns. Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (69%) and in Europe (19%).
Fewer residents with no religion than 57% of Canadian towns: 33%
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Visible minority residents account for 12%. The usual figure: just over a third of residents said they have no religion across Canada’s towns.
English is the mother tongue of 83%, and 1.6% 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
At home: English 89%, French 0.2%. Lower than in 99% of Canadian towns: 1.6% of residents speak English and French. There is little gap on residents whose mother tongue is French: 0.6%, about the same as across Canada’s towns.
A smaller share of degree holders aged 25 to 64 than 59% of Canadian towns: 23%
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
At the other end, 7.4% hold no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. Set beside that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
Employment: 63% 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 63%.
Of 41 towns its size (2,549 to 2,652 people), the 20th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 32.7 in City Commercial Core to 67.7 in Brockville. Nearest to Rosetown in age: Grand Manan (43.6), Outlook (44), Salisbury (45.2) and Kinburn (45.2).
Around Rosetown, 1 of 3 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page. No closer places have figures: these lie 55–70 km from Rosetown.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. For origins the charts stop at visible minority and Indigenous identity, and the Census Profile has nothing on unpaid care, cars or the internet, or on change by age since 2016.
- The census’s own words. “Visible minority” is the census’s term from the Employment Equity Act: people, other than Indigenous peoples, who are non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are as residents answered. The page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
- 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.
Questions about Rosetown’s residents
How diverse is Rosetown?
Immigrants make up 13% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 12% are members of a visible minority, and 4% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Rosetown?
Christian: 64%. No religion: 33%. Another religion: 3.1%.
Is Rosetown good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 16%. 50% of households are couple families and 6.3% one-parent families. Schools near Rosetown are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Rosetown?
$77,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Rosetown (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Rosetown?
Statistics Canada estimates 2,600 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 2,507 in Rosetown, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Rosetown?
44.8 is the median age, older than 66% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 16%. 65 and over: 27%.
Is Rosetown bilingual?
Both official languages are spoken by 1.6% of residents, against a typical 7.5% across Canada’s towns. 98% speak only English and 0% only French; 0.6% grew up with French.
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).