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Census Profile

Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 1,442
Population in 20061 1,458
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -1.1
Total private dwellings2 769
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 636
Population density per square kilometre 26.3
Land area (square km) 54.85
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 1,445
0 to 4 years 45
5 to 9 years 70
10 to 14 years 85
15 to 19 years 65
15 years 20
16 years 20
17 years 5
18 years 15
19 years 10
20 to 24 years 55
25 to 29 years 40
30 to 34 years 60
35 to 39 years 80
40 to 44 years 120
45 to 49 years 125
50 to 54 years 100
55 to 59 years 155
60 to 64 years 180
65 to 69 years 110
70 to 74 years 55
75 to 79 years 35
80 to 84 years 35
85 years and over 20
Median age of the population5 49.1
% of the population aged 15 and over 86.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 1,240
Married or living with a common-law partner 865
Married (and not separated) 750
Living common law 115
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 375
Single (never legally married) 210
Separated 15
Divorced 50
Widowed 95
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 490
Size of census family: 2 persons 310
Size of census family: 3 persons 100
Size of census family: 4 persons 65
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 20
Total number of census families in private households8 490
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 430
Married couples 370
Without children at home 245
With children at home 125
1 child 65
2 children 45
3 or more children 10
Common-law couples 55
Without children at home 20
With children at home 35
1 child 20
2 children 15
3 or more children 0
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 60
Female parent 40
1 child 35
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Male parent 20
1 child 10
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 340
Under six years of age 55
6 to 14 years 145
15 to 17 years 40
18 to 24 years 55
25 years and over 40
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 1,440
Number of persons not in census families 185
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 145
Number of census family persons 1,255
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 260
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 75
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 60
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 185
Total number of private households by household type10 635
Census-family households 480
One-family-only households11 460
Couple-family households12 410
Without children 245
With children 160
Lone-parent-family households 50
Other family households13 20
One-family households with persons not in a census family 15
Couple-family households14 10
Without children 5
With children 0
Lone-parent-family households 5
Two-or-more-family households 10
Non-census-family households 150
One-person households 145
Two-or-more-person households 10
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 635
Single-detached house 605
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 5
Other dwelling17 30
Semi-detached house 10
Row house 10
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 5
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 635
1 person 145
2 persons 290
3 persons 105
4 persons 75
5 persons 15
6 or more persons 5
Number of persons in private households 1,440
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,440
  Single responses  1,440
    English  1,435
    French  10
    Non-official languages  0
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,440
  English only 1,420
  French only 0
  English and French 20
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,445
  English 1,440
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 0
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,445
  Single responses 1,440
    English 1,435
    French 5
    Non-official languages 0
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 0
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 0
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 0
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 0
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 0
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         0
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,440
  None 1,440
  Single responses  0
    English  0
    French  0
    Non-official languages  0
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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