The median employment income in Red Deer fell by $3,200 in 2020, according to Statistics Canada.
2021 census data released Wednesday shows the median employment income among persons 15 and over in the city was $38,800 in 2020, which was down from the $42,000 reported in 2019. Provincially, the median employment income for individuals in 2020 was $41,600.
The median after-tax income of households was $75,000 in Red Deer and $83,000 in Alberta – nationally, the median after-tax household income was $73,000.
In Red Deer there were 24,915 people aged 15 and over in private households who accessed COVID-19 emergency and recovery benefits in 2020. The median benefits among recipients was $8,000. According to the 2021 census, 62.3 per cent of Albertans received COVID-19 benefits throughout the year.
The city’s population saw mild growth in 2021. There are now 100,844 people living in the city, which is an increase from the 100,418 reported in the 2016 census. Red Deer remains the third biggest city in Alberta.
In 2021, the city recorded 43,404 total private dwellings, with 40,512 private dwellings occupied by usual residents. The city’s population density per square kilometre is 996.5, with 104.34 square kilometres in land area.
Of the total census households, 11,685 are occupied by one person and 855 are multigenerational, meaning there is at least one person who is both the grandparent of a person in the home and the parent of another person under the same roof.
From 2016 to 2021, Red Deer recorded the largest growth in the proportion of young adults living with at least one parent in Alberta: Red Deer rose seven percentage points, while Calgary and Edmonton climbed five and four per cent, respectively.
Nationally, 4.4 million people lived alone in 2021, which is up from 1.7 million in 1981. This represented 15 per cent of all adults aged 15 and older in private households in 2021, the highest share on record. Among the provinces, Ontario (12 per cent) and Alberta (13 per cent) had the two lowest shares of adults living solo in 2021.
Despite the increase in solo living, the prevalence of one-person households is relatively low in Canada from an international perspective, representing about 3 in 10 households (29.3 per cent) in 2021. Among G7 countries, only the United States had a slightly smaller share (28.5 per cent in 2021).
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