Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada
Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
region · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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PEI at a glance
Rolled up from the 6 regions inside PEI on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads PEI, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 182,989 persons (2026-Q3) ↗
- GDP
- 11,469 CAD million, current prices (expenditure-based) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 7.4 % (LFS, 15+, seasonally adjusted) (2026-10) ↗
- Inflation
- 5.7 % CPI all-items, 12-month change (Sep 2025 to Sep 2026) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 75,300 CAD, median total income, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2024) ↗
- Average household income
- 95,500 CAD, average total income, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2024) ↗
- Household debt (total)
- 7,677 CAD million, total debt of all family units (Survey of Financial Security) (2023) ↗
- Average household debt
- 134,000 CAD, average total debt for family units holding debt (74.0% of family units hold debt; median $77,000) (2023) ↗
- Median net worth
- 399,800 CAD, median net worth, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2023) ↗
- Average net worth
- 681,100 CAD, average net worth, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2023) ↗
- Home ownership
- 67.1 % of family units holding a principal residence (Survey of Financial Security) (2023) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Edward Island (PEIREA board, province-wide) ↗ | 377,900 CAD | MLS HPI benchmark (composite/single-family) | 2026-09 |
| Prince Edward Island (PEIREA board, province-wide) ↗ | 409,925 CAD | average sale | 2026-09 |
| Prince Edward Island (PEIREA board, province-wide) ↗ | 415,000 CAD | median sale, single detached | 2026-Q3 |
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English only ↗ | 95.9% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| French only ↗ | 2.9% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| English and French ↗ | 0.3% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| English and French (bilingual) ↗ | 12.7% | knowledge of official languages | 2021 |
| English only ↗ | 86.2% | knowledge of official languages | 2021 |
| French ↗ | 3.7% | mother tongue (French only 3.0 + in combination 0.7) | 2021 |
| French ↗ | 1.7% | most often at home | 2021 |
Worth knowing
- 2026-10PEI's consumer prices rose 5.7% year over year in September 2026, the highest 12-month increase among the ten provinces in StatCan's provincial CPI table (Canada: 3.1%). Excluding energy, PEI was +2.6%. ↗
- 2026-10Students from Prince Edward Island had the largest tuition fee increase in Canada in 2026 (+4.9%), against 2.4% nationally. ↗
- 2026-02Rob Lantz became premier again on February 9, 2026, after winning the PC leadership. He had been interim premier from February 21 to December 12, 2025, after Dennis King resigned, and Bloyce Thompson served as interim premier between his two terms. ↗
- 2026-09PEIREA recorded 201 home sales in September 2026, the most for a September since 2021. The $82.4 million in sales was a record for September, and months of inventory stood at 6.8 against a long-run average of 5.7. ↗
- 2023-03In 2021, 19,520 Islanders (12.8%) could hold a conversation in French, up from 10.3% in 1991. Over the same period, the share with French as their only first official language fell from 4.1% to 2.9%. ↗
Census
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population.
- Mandarin2,635 · 1.7%
- Punjabi (Panjabi)840 · 0.6%
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)710 · 0.5%
- Arabic465 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese445 · 0.3%
- Malayalam210 · 0.1%
- Gujarati160 · 0.1%
- Spanish145 · 0.1%
- Yue (Cantonese)120 · 0.1%
- German115 · 0.1%
- Nepali115 · 0.1%
- Russian110 · 0.1%
Largest employers headquartered in PEI
Worldwide head offices from the /employers research, ranked by people employed as each company reports it.
- 1.Discovery Garden Charlottetown, PE · Software — digital repository and collections platforms ↗25 at this site, 2025
Largest places in PEI
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Charlottetown, PEI full38,810
- 2.Summerside, PEI full16,005
Inside PEI
6 regions have PEI as their parent.
Companies based in PEI
14 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in PEI. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.