Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in York
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 98,540 90,880 6,550 445 665 6,775 6.9
Single responses 96,935 89,770 6,245 255 670 6,375 6.6
Official languages 93,145 86,920 6,225 0 0 6,220 6.7
English 89,455 86,780 2,675 0 0 2,680 3.0
French 3,685 140 3,545 0 0 3,545 96.2
Non-official languages 3,795 2,845 25 255 665 155 4.1
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malecite 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 3,765 2,825 25 255 665 150 4.0
Afro-Asiatic languages 730 310 5 45 365 30 4.1
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 725 310 5 45 365 25 3.4
Amharic 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Arabic 685 270 5 40 365 25 3.6
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 25 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 140 0 15 15 5 2.9
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 160 140 0 10 10 10 6.3
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 50 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tamil 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Telugu 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 1,390 1,150 10 115 115 70 5.0
Albanian 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Armenian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Balto-Slavic languages 455 375 0 30 45 20 4.4
Baltic languages 10 5 0 0 0 5 50.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages 445 365 0 30 45 15 3.4
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 20 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Croatian 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Czech 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Polish 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Russian 290 245 0 20 35 5 1.7
Serbian 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 110 90 0 15 5 10 9.1
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dutch 40 20 0 10 0 10 25.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 65 60 0 5 5 0 0.0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 575 495 0 30 45 15 2.6
Indo-Aryan languages 300 255 0 15 30 5 1.7
Bengali 55 50 0 0 0 5 9.1
Gujarati 10 10 0 0 0 5 50.0
Hindi 65 60 0 5 0 0 0.0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 110 75 0 0 25 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 270 235 0 20 15 10 3.7
Kurdish 10 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 260 230 0 15 10 10 3.8
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italic (Romance) languages 230 165 10 40 20 25 10.9
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 10 5 0 10 0 0 0.0
Portuguese 25 20 0 0 5 5 20.0
Romanian 35 15 0 5 10 5 14.3
Spanish 155 125 5 20 5 15 9.7
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 265 235 0 15 20 5 1.9
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 60 30 5 20 10 20 33.3
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 5 0 5 0 0 0.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 25 5 5 10 5 10 40.0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 5 0 0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages 40 25 0 0 10 0 0.0
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 15 0 0 10 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 985 830 0 35 130 15 1.5
Chinese languages 985 830 0 30 125 15 1.5
Cantonese 60 45 0 5 10 0 0.0
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 835 705 0 25 105 10 1.2
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 35 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 5 0 0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 1,600 1,110 305 190 0 400 25.0
English and French 550 120 280 155 0 355 64.5
English and non-official language 980 980 5 0 0 5 0.5
French and non-official language 20 0 20 0 0 15 75.0
English, French and non-official language 55 10 10 35 0 25 45.5

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016070.

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