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Census Profile

Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 979
Population in 20061 978
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 0.1
Total private dwellings2 491
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 425
Population density per square kilometre 81.1
Land area (square km) 12.08
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 980
0 to 4 years 40
5 to 9 years 45
10 to 14 years 55
15 to 19 years 40
15 years 10
16 years 5
17 years 10
18 years 10
19 years 5
20 to 24 years 45
25 to 29 years 45
30 to 34 years 40
35 to 39 years 65
40 to 44 years 80
45 to 49 years 80
50 to 54 years 85
55 to 59 years 95
60 to 64 years 85
65 to 69 years 65
70 to 74 years 50
75 to 79 years 25
80 to 84 years 20
85 years and over 15
Median age of the population5 46.6
% of the population aged 15 and over 85.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 840
Married or living with a common-law partner 550
Married (and not separated) 450
Living common law 100
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 285
Single (never legally married) 180
Separated 10
Divorced 35
Widowed 60
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 330
Size of census family: 2 persons 200
Size of census family: 3 persons 65
Size of census family: 4 persons 50
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 5
Total number of census families in private households8 325
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 275
Married couples 225
Without children at home 140
With children at home 85
1 child 40
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Common-law couples 50
Without children at home 30
With children at home 25
1 child 15
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 55
Female parent 50
1 child 35
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Male parent 10
1 child 5
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 250
Under six years of age 50
6 to 14 years 95
15 to 17 years 30
18 to 24 years 50
25 years and over 30
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 980
Number of persons not in census families 135
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 20
Living alone 105
Number of census family persons 845
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 165
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 50
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 45
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 115
Total number of private households by household type10 425
Census-family households 315
One-family-only households11 290
Couple-family households12 250
Without children 150
With children 100
Lone-parent-family households 35
Other family households13 25
One-family households with persons not in a census family 15
Couple-family households14 10
Without children 5
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 5
Two-or-more-family households 10
Non-census-family households 110
One-person households 100
Two-or-more-person households 10
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 425
Single-detached house 395
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 25
Semi-detached house 10
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 10
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 425
1 person 105
2 persons 180
3 persons 70
4 persons 55
5 persons 10
6 or more persons 5
Number of persons in private households 980
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 980
  Single responses  980
    English  975
    French  10
    Non-official languages  5
      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 980
  English only 940
  French only 0
  English and French 35
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 975
  English 970
  French 10
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 5
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.5
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 980
  Single responses 980
    English 970
    French 5
    Non-official languages 5
      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 5
        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 980
  None 975
  Single responses  5
    English  5
    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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