Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Indigenous residents make up 19% in Pacific Heights, more than in 96% of Canadian towns
Households in Pacific Heights hold 2.9 people on average (Canada’s towns: 2.4). Census day 2021: 3,770 residents and 1,285 households in the neighbourhood. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents are not Canadian citizens.
What stands out about the people of Pacific Heights
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
19% of residents identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit, more than in 96% of Canadian towns; 9% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Pacific Heights’s residents are under 36.3 and half over; the typical median across Canadian towns is 42. 22% are under 15 and 14% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
Pacific Heights is younger than 86% of Canadian towns: a median age of 36.3
Figures are from the 2021 Census unless dated otherwise. Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Here 22% of residents are under 15, where the figure across Canada’s towns is 16%. 14% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Pacific Heights, 36.3. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
14% of households are one-parent families, more than in 96% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against Saskatchewan’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-person households is 15%, against 27% across Canada’s towns. Across the comparison, nearly one in ten households are one-parent families across Canada’s towns.
Pacific Heights sits below 57% of Canadian towns for common-law partners (9.9%)
Marital status of residents 15 and over, with common-law couples counted apart.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
33% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Across the comparison, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Pacific Heights sits above 82% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (86%)
Houses and apartments, owners and renters, older and newer homes. 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. The wider picture: 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Renter households: 19% of the total.
Households here have a median income of $92,500 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
Half of Pacific Heights’s households had a total income above $92,500, 8% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Saskatchewan’s towns the median is $86,500. COVID-19 benefits were paid to 32% of residents with an income, where the typical town had 28%.
Pacific Heights: 20% of residents are immigrants, above 55% of Canadian towns
Immigrants by continent of birth and when they arrived, citizenship, and who moved in recently.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (73%) and in Africa (8.7%). As a reference point, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. 10% lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than the typical 11% across Canada’s towns. Of the immigrants living here, 65% came between 2011 and 2021; across Canada’s towns the share is 27%.
25% of residents belong to a visible minority, a share 62% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
On religion, 54% answered Christian and 39% no religion, against 54% and 35% across Canada’s towns. Other faiths: Muslim (3.6%). As a yardstick, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns.
75% have English as their mother tongue; 4.6% also speak French
English, French and the other languages people grew up with or speak at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
The share of bilingual residents trails 79% of Canadian towns: 4.6%. At home, 13% mostly speak another language; 1.2% speak neither English nor French. Pacific Heights has fewer residents whose mother tongue is French than 77% of Canadian towns, at 0.9%.
Below 75% of Canadian towns: 17% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 13% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
In work on census day: 58% of adults
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. The census’s work rates at a glance. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 58%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (3,710 to 3,828 people), the 5th youngest
Similar-sized towns by median age; each dot is a town.
Median ages climb from 32.1 (Clareview Town Centre) to 58.4 (Georgian Bay) across the group. In age, Pacific Heights keeps company with Cartier (35.2), City Park (35.3), Industrial Sector A and Keith (36.5) and Saint-Maurice (38).
A younger town than 3 of the 6 around it: Pacific Heights
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Heights | 3,770 | — | 36.3 | 14% | 20% |
| Confederation Park | 5,771 | 0.6 km | 37.9 | 11% | 25% |
| Blairmore Suburban Centre | 7,411 | 1.0 km | 31.8 | 5.6% | 41% |
| Dundonald | 2,855 | 1.4 km | 41.2 | 11% | 15% |
| Fairhaven | 6,536 | 1.4 km | 36 | 14% | 23% |
| Massey Place | 6,561 | 1.5 km | 34.6 | 13% | 27% |
| Parkridge | 4,518 | 1.8 km | 36.7 | 11% | 15% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Two medians frame each figure: one for Saskatchewan’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.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. There is no census profile for a neighbourhood, so we add up the dissemination areas inside it. Each count is a sum of Statistics Canada’s rounded counts, the median age and income come from the published groups, and with 2016’s areas drawn differently there is no 2016 count.
- What these tables don’t give. Missing from the census as published: unpaid care, cars and internet access, and the shift in each age band since 2016. Ethnic origins past visible minority and Indigenous identity aren’t charted here.
Questions about Pacific Heights’s residents
What religion are people in Pacific Heights?
Christian: 54%. No religion: 39%. Another religion: 6.5%.
Is Pacific Heights good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 22%. 56% of households are couple families and 14% one-parent families. Schools near Pacific Heights are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Pacific Heights?
$92,500 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Pacific Heights (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Pacific Heights?
Pacific Heights had 3,770 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Pacific Heights?
36.3 is the median age, younger than 86% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 22%. 65 and over: 14%.
Is Pacific Heights bilingual?
4.6% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 94% English only. French is the mother tongue of 0.9%.
How diverse is Pacific Heights?
Immigrants make up 20% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 25% are members of a visible minority, and 19% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
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).