In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Little Swan River had a population of 30 living in 12 of its 47 total private dwellings, a change of inf% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.78 km2 (0.30 sq mi), it had a population density of 38.5/km2 (99.6/sq mi) in 2021.[2]