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Census Profile

Kentville, Nova Scotia (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 6,094
Population in 20061 5,815
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 4.8
Total private dwellings2 2,782
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,660
Population density per square kilometre 351.2
Land area (square km) 17.35
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 6,095
0 to 4 years 325
5 to 9 years 345
10 to 14 years 330
15 to 19 years 345
15 years 60
16 years 70
17 years 60
18 years 75
19 years 75
20 to 24 years 390
25 to 29 years 310
30 to 34 years 335
35 to 39 years 365
40 to 44 years 405
45 to 49 years 455
50 to 54 years 430
55 to 59 years 435
60 to 64 years 370
65 to 69 years 310
70 to 74 years 285
75 to 79 years 230
80 to 84 years 190
85 years and over 235
Median age of the population5 43.7
% of the population aged 15 and over 83.6
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 5,090
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,865
Married (and not separated) 2,340
Living common law 525
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 2,225
Single (never legally married) 1,215
Separated 190
Divorced 390
Widowed 435
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,715
Size of census family: 2 persons 995
Size of census family: 3 persons 335
Size of census family: 4 persons 280
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 105
Total number of census families in private households8 1,720
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,395
Married couples 1,130
Without children at home 630
With children at home 505
1 child 200
2 children 215
3 or more children 90
Common-law couples 260
Without children at home 160
With children at home 100
1 child 55
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 320
Female parent 265
1 child 170
2 children 70
3 or more children 30
Male parent 55
1 child 30
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 1,565
Under six years of age 385
6 to 14 years 610
15 to 17 years 180
18 to 24 years 270
25 years and over 120
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,850
Number of persons not in census families 1,170
Living with relatives9 85
Living with non-relatives only 220
Living alone 865
Number of census family persons 4,675
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,050
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 350
Living with relatives9 25
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 310
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 700
Total number of private households by household type10 2,660
Census-family households 1,695
One-family-only households11 1,590
Couple-family households12 1,320
Without children 750
With children 570
Lone-parent-family households 265
Other family households13 105
One-family households with persons not in a census family 85
Couple-family households14 40
Without children 20
With children 25
Lone-parent-family households 40
Two-or-more-family households 25
Non-census-family households 970
One-person households 865
Two-or-more-person households 100
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,660
Single-detached house 1,635
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 5
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 1,020
Semi-detached house 155
Row house 35
Apartment, duplex 190
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 625
Other single-attached house 10
Total number of private households by household size18 2,660
1 person 865
2 persons 1,005
3 persons 360
4 persons 300
5 persons 95
6 or more persons 35
Number of persons in private households 5,850
Average number of persons in private households 2.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,895
  Single responses  5,880
    English  5,635
    French  95
    Non-official languages  150
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  5
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 140
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  10
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  5
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  10
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  40
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  10
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  5
        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  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  5
        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  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  5
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  10
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  5
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          15
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  10
    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 5,895
  English only 5,245
  French only 5
  English and French 645
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,895
  English 5,805
  French 90
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 90
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.5
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,900
  Single responses 5,865
    English 5,805
    French 20
    Non-official languages 45
      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 40
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 5
        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. 5
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 5
        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 5
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 0
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5
        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         30
    English and French 15
    English and non-official language 15
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,900
  None 5,675
  Single responses  220
    English  35
    French  115
    Non-official languages  65
      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 60
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  5
        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.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        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  5
        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 5
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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