Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wabush had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="2" | Canada 2006 Census!! Population !! % of Total Population
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| rowspan="12" | Visible minority group<BR><small>Source:</small> || South Asian || 20 ||
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| Chinese || 0 ||
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| Black || 10 ||
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| Filipino || 90 ||
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| Latin American || 0 ||
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| Arab || 0 ||
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| Southeast Asian || 0 ||
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| West Asian || 0 ||
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| Korean || 0 ||
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| Japanese || 5 ||
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| Other visible minority || 0 ||
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| Mixed visible minority || 0 ||
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| colspan="2" | Total visible minority population|| 30 ||
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| rowspan="3" | Aboriginal group<BR><small>Source:</small> || First Nations || 50 ||
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| Métis || 70 ||
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| Inuit || 0 ||
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| colspan="2" | Total Aboriginal population || 145 ||
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| colspan="2" | White || 1,595 ||
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| colspan="2" | Total population || 1,861 || 100%
|}
Notable residents
- Mike Adam, Canadian curler
- Shawn Doyle, actor
- Michael Crummey, poet and writer
Literary references
Wabush appears in the John Wyndham post-catastrophe novel The Chrysalids under the name of Waknuk.