Figure 9
Proportion (in percentage) of the population aged 65 and over, Canada, census metropolitan areas, 2011

Description

This figure shows the proportion of people aged 65 and over, in percentage, in Canada's 33 census metropolitan areas for 2011. It also shows the proportion of people aged 65 and over for Canada as a whole in 2011, which was 14.8%. The CMAs are shown in descending order. The proportion was 19.5% in Peterborough, 19.4% in Trois-Rivières, 19.2% in Kelowna, 19.2% in St. Catharines - Niagara, 18.4% in Victoria, 17.5% in Saguenay, 17.2% in Thunder Bay, 16.7% in Sherbrooke, 16.5% in Québec, 16.3% in Kingston, 16.1% in Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury, 16.0% in Hamilton, 15.2% in Brantford, 15.1% in Saint John, 15.0% in London, 14.9% in Windsor, 14.6% in Montréal, 14.6% in Moncton, 14.1% in Abbotsford - Mission, 14.1% in Winnipeg, 13.5% in Vancouver, 13.4% in Guelph, 13.1% in Regina, 13.1% in Halifax, 12.7% in St. John's, 12.7% in Ottawa - Gatineau, 12.7% in Toronto, 12.6% in Barrie, 12.5% in Oshawa, 12.5% in Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo, 12.1% in Saskatoon, 11.4% in Edmonton, and 9.8% in Calgary.

Figure 9

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011.