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Census Profile

Colchester, Subd. B, Nova Scotia (Subdivision of county municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 19,643
Population in 20061 19,297
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 1.8
Total private dwellings2 9,149
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 8,047
Population density per square kilometre 15.7
Land area (square km) 1,248.40
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 19,645
0 to 4 years 975
5 to 9 years 1,060
10 to 14 years 1,245
15 to 19 years 1,355
15 years 260
16 years 275
17 years 250
18 years 295
19 years 265
20 to 24 years 1,020
25 to 29 years 820
30 to 34 years 950
35 to 39 years 1,200
40 to 44 years 1,430
45 to 49 years 1,680
50 to 54 years 1,625
55 to 59 years 1,570
60 to 64 years 1,375
65 to 69 years 1,170
70 to 74 years 830
75 to 79 years 605
80 to 84 years 385
85 years and over 355
Median age of the population5 44.2
% of the population aged 15 and over 83.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 16,365
Married or living with a common-law partner 10,280
Married (and not separated) 8,680
Living common law 1,605
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 6,080
Single (never legally married) 3,695
Separated 525
Divorced 875
Widowed 985
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 6,005
Size of census family: 2 persons 3,255
Size of census family: 3 persons 1,285
Size of census family: 4 persons 1,080
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 385
Total number of census families in private households8 6,005
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 5,090
Married couples 4,285
Without children at home 2,270
With children at home 2,010
1 child 810
2 children 885
3 or more children 315
Common-law couples 805
Without children at home 450
With children at home 355
1 child 180
2 children 115
3 or more children 55
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 920
Female parent 715
1 child 385
2 children 250
3 or more children 80
Male parent 205
1 child 145
2 children 45
3 or more children 10
Total children in census families in private households 5,630
Under six years of age 1,155
6 to 14 years 2,095
15 to 17 years 775
18 to 24 years 1,130
25 years and over 480
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 19,425
Number of persons not in census families 2,695
Living with relatives9 290
Living with non-relatives only 470
Living alone 1,935
Number of census family persons 16,725
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 3,195
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 975
Living with relatives9 100
Living with non-relatives only 55
Living alone 815
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 2,220
Total number of private households by household type10 8,045
Census-family households 5,910
One-family-only households11 5,540
Couple-family households12 4,815
Without children 2,585
With children 2,235
Lone-parent-family households 725
Other family households13 370
One-family households with persons not in a census family 275
Couple-family households14 155
Without children 70
With children 85
Lone-parent-family households 120
Two-or-more-family households 95
Non-census-family households 2,140
One-person households 1,935
Two-or-more-person households 205
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 8,045
Single-detached house 6,135
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 5
Movable dwelling16 765
Other dwelling17 1,150
Semi-detached house 175
Row house 180
Apartment, duplex 190
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 585
Other single-attached house 25
Total number of private households by household size18 8,050
1 person 1,935
2 persons 3,150
3 persons 1,320
4 persons 1,150
5 persons 355
6 or more persons 135
Number of persons in private households 19,420
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,465
  Single responses  19,375
    English  18,805
    French  215
    Non-official languages  355
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  5
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 345
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  5
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  10
        Arabic  25
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  35
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  40
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  70
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  10
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  5
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  5
        Nepali  5
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  5
        Polish  5
        Portuguese  5
        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)  10
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  5
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  5
        Telugu  5
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  20
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          90
    English and French  40
    English and non-official language  45
    French and non-official language  5
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,460
  English only 18,340
  French only 0
  English and French 1,110
  Neither English nor French 10
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,460
  English 19,275
  French 170
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 10
Official language minority (number)23 175
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.9
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,460
  Single responses 19,390
    English 19,205
    French 50
    Non-official languages 130
      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 125
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 5
        Arabic 15
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 5
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 25
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 5
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 10
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 5
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5
        Italian 0
        Japanese 5
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 10
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        Marathi 5
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 5
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 5
        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) 5
        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) 5
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 5
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 15
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         75
    English and French 15
    English and non-official language 60
    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 19,465
  None 19,055
  Single responses  400
    English  85
    French  180
    Non-official languages  135
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  10
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 120
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  5
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  15
        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  5
        Croatian  0
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  15
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  20
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        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  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  5
        Polish  5
        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)  5
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  5
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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