Census Profile · Alberta
2021 Census of Population, Edmonton, City (CY).
By the Numbers
Regional average $91,563 (marked). This area is below it.
Regional average 1,619 (marked). This area is below it.
Regional average across the 32 communities in our guides. Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
What the data says
Edmonton was home to 1,010,899 residents in 2021, up 8.3% from 2016. The median age is 36.8, and the typical household has 2.5 people.
Of the area's 396,405 households, 63.6% own their home and 36.4% rent. The median total household income in 2020 was $90,000.
Edmonton wraps more than twenty connected parks around the North Saskatchewan River valley, one of the continent's largest areas of urban parkland, giving a prairie capital city an unusually green, river carved core.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, Edmonton, City (CY), British Columbia. Reproduced and distributed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Median income is the median total income of households in 2020. Figures are rounded by Statistics Canada and are provided for general information only.
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