 The Aylsham post office was opened in 1921, named after Aylsham, Norfolk, England, which in turn was adopted for the community's name.In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Aylsham recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of .With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.