Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269) and Other Language(s) Spoken Regularly at Home (11) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 100% Data

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This table details mother tongue , language spoken most often at home and other language spoken regularly at home for the population excluding institutional residents in Thunder Bay
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Mother tongue (269) Other language(s) spoken regularly at home (11)
Total - Other language(s) spoken regularly at home None English French Non-official language Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal English and French English and non-official language French and non-official language English, French and non-official language
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 2 119,885 111,315 2,155 1,760 4,545 780 3,760 5 30 75 0
Single responses 118,325 110,175 2,110 1,675 4,265 700 3,565 5 30 65 0
Official languages 105,345 102,215 505 1,650 920 280 640 0 5 45 0
English 102,665 100,670 75 980 905 285 620 0 0 35 0
French 2,680 1,555 435 670 20 0 15 0 0 5 0
Non-official languages 12,985 7,960 1,605 20 3,345 420 2,925 0 25 25 0
Aboriginal languages 1,220 675 125 5 415 415 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 1,215 670 125 0 415 415 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 95 65 5 0 30 30 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 10 5 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 25 20 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 50 30 0 0 15 15 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 1,115 600 120 0 385 385 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 700 395 75 0 230 230 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 410 210 45 0 155 155 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 11,760 7,285 1,480 20 2,930 0 2,925 0 30 20 0
Afro-Asiatic languages 285 125 80 5 75 0 75 0 0 0 0
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 275 120 80 0 70 0 75 0 0 0 0
Amharic 5 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Arabic 255 110 80 0 65 0 65 0 0 0 0
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 130 65 50 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vietnamese 125 60 50 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 245 120 45 0 80 0 85 0 0 5 0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 5 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Fijian 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 95 40 0 60 0 60 0 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 5 0 0 5 0 10 5 0 0 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 170 70 25 0 70 0 70 0 0 0 0
Kannada 10 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 120 40 20 0 50 0 50 0 0 0 0
Tamil 35 15 5 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Telugu 10 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,890 5,000 855 10 1,985 0 1,985 0 25 15 0
Albanian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,280 1,530 185 5 550 0 555 0 10 5 0
Baltic languages 25 20 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,255 1,510 185 5 545 0 545 0 5 5 0
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatian 275 160 45 5 70 0 70 0 5 0 0
Czech 45 30 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Polish 890 580 75 0 230 0 230 0 0 5 0
Russian 100 45 10 0 40 0 40 0 5 0 0
Serbian 40 30 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Slovak 155 120 5 0 30 0 30 0 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 85 50 15 0 25 0 20 0 0 0 0
Ukrainian 630 475 30 0 125 0 130 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,180 900 40 5 235 0 235 0 0 5 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Danish 60 50 0 0 15 0 10 0 0 0 0
Dutch 350 290 5 0 50 0 50 0 0 0 0
Frisian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
German 685 500 25 0 155 0 150 0 0 0 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swedish 45 35 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 130 65 15 0 45 0 45 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 595 290 170 0 120 0 120 0 15 0 0
Indo-Aryan languages 470 215 145 0 100 0 100 0 10 0 0
Bengali 70 25 35 0 10 0 15 0 0 0 0
Gujarati 90 45 25 0 25 0 20 0 5 0 0
Hindi 95 45 25 0 20 0 25 0 0 0 0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 75 40 20 0 10 0 15 0 5 0 0
Sindhi 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urdu 95 30 45 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0
Iranian languages 120 75 20 0 25 0 20 0 0 0 0
Kurdish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pashto 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 75 20 0 20 0 15 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,690 2,195 440 0 1,030 0 1,035 0 5 10 0
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 2,905 1,780 315 0 805 0 805 0 0 0 0
Portuguese 405 240 45 0 110 0 115 0 0 0 0
Romanian 50 15 15 0 15 0 15 0 5 0 0
Spanish 330 160 65 0 95 0 100 0 5 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 35 15 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 45 20 0 20 0 20 0 0 0 0
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 60 30 10 0 20 0 25 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 20 5 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5 0 10 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0
Dinka 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 20 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 30 15 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 10 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages 785 465 175 0 140 0 140 0 5 0 0
Chinese languages 545 305 130 0 110 0 110 0 0 0 0
Cantonese 180 105 35 0 40 0 35 0 0 0 0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 320 170 85 0 55 0 55 0 0 0 0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 15 5 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 15 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 240 160 50 0 30 0 30 0 5 0 0
Burmese 25 15 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Karenic languages 205 140 40 0 25 0 25 0 5 0 0
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 5 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 5 10 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,985 1,305 200 0 480 0 475 0 0 0 0
Estonian 30 25 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 1,815 1,190 185 0 435 0 430 0 0 5 0
Hungarian 140 90 10 0 40 0 35 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
Multiple responses 1,560 1,135 35 90 285 80 200 0 0 10 0
English and French 325 235 5 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
English and non-official language 1,185 880 35 0 265 85 185 5 0 5 0
French and non-official language 20 15 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 0 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 5 0

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Data quality note(s) – Thunder Bay

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.4%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016074.

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