Yukon Territory
Yukon Territory: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
territory · population 48,493 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Yukon at a glance
Rolled up from the 2 regions inside Yukon on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads Yukon, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 50,356 persons (2026-07) ↗
- GDP
- 4,666 CAD millions, current prices (GDP at market prices, expenditure-based) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 5.3 % (15+, seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average) (2026-10) ↗
- Median household income
- 100,200 CAD, median total income, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2024) ↗
- Average household income
- 120,700 CAD, average total income, economic families and persons not in an economic family (2024) ↗
- Home ownership
- 64.4 % of private households (2021) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English ↗ | 94.7% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| French ↗ | 4.4% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| English and French ↗ | 0.5% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| Neither English nor French ↗ | 0.4% | first official language spoken | 2021 |
| French ↗ | 14.4% | able to conduct a conversation in French (5,745 people; 98.5% of them also in English) | 2021 |
| French ↗ | 5.7% | mother tongue (2,275 people) | 2021 |
| English and French ↗ | official status (Language Act also recognizes Yukon Indigenous languages) | 2026 |
Worth knowing
- 2025-11The Yukon Party won the November 3, 2025 territorial election with 14 of 21 seats and 51.93% of the vote, its first majority since 2011; turnout was 53.07%. ↗
- 2025-11Currie Dixon became premier on November 22, 2025, the first Yukon-born premier; the 2025 election also returned more women than men (11 of 21 MLAs) for the first time. ↗
- 2024-06On June 24, 2024 the heap leach facility at Victoria Gold's Eagle Gold Mine failed, releasing about four million tonnes of ore; an estimated two million tonnes, including cyanide solution, left containment into the Dublin Gulch valley. ↗
- 2024-08On August 14, 2024, on the Government of Yukon's application, the court appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as receiver over Victoria Gold Corp's assets, including the Eagle mine. ↗
- 2022-09Yukon's homeownership rate was 64.4% in 2021, down 2.1 percentage points from 66.5% in 2011. ↗
Census
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population.
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)620 · 1.6%
- Punjabi (Panjabi)325 · 0.8%
- Yue (Cantonese)130 · 0.3%
- German90 · 0.2%
- Swiss German20 · 0.1%
Largest places in Yukon
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Dawson City, YT1,577
Inside Yukon
2 regions have Yukon as their parent.
Companies based in Yukon
1 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 3 across Yukon and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Rockhaven Resources | Materials |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Yukon Territory 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.