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Census Profile

Guysborough, Nova Scotia (Municipal district)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 4,189
Population in 20061 4,681
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -10.5
Total private dwellings2 2,827
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,933
Population density per square kilometre 2.0
Land area (square km) 2,111.42
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 4,190
0 to 4 years 120
5 to 9 years 130
10 to 14 years 200
15 to 19 years 200
15 years 35
16 years 40
17 years 50
18 years 40
19 years 35
20 to 24 years 135
25 to 29 years 120
30 to 34 years 125
35 to 39 years 185
40 to 44 years 215
45 to 49 years 355
50 to 54 years 400
55 to 59 years 410
60 to 64 years 455
65 to 69 years 370
70 to 74 years 275
75 to 79 years 230
80 to 84 years 145
85 years and over 120
Median age of the population5 53.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 3,740
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,330
Married (and not separated) 2,000
Living common law 325
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,420
Single (never legally married) 780
Separated 110
Divorced 175
Widowed 355
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,330
Size of census family: 2 persons 875
Size of census family: 3 persons 240
Size of census family: 4 persons 175
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 35
Total number of census families in private households8 1,330
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,150
Married couples 985
Without children at home 650
With children at home 335
1 child 165
2 children 140
3 or more children 35
Common-law couples 160
Without children at home 100
With children at home 60
1 child 40
2 children 20
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 180
Female parent 140
1 child 95
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Male parent 35
1 child 30
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 900
Under six years of age 140
6 to 14 years 305
15 to 17 years 125
18 to 24 years 170
25 years and over 165
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 4,140
Number of persons not in census families 765
Living with relatives9 105
Living with non-relatives only 90
Living alone 565
Number of census family persons 3,375
Average number of persons per census family 2.5
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,095
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 350
Living with relatives9 45
Living with non-relatives only 20
Living alone 280
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 745
Total number of private households by household type10 1,930
Census-family households 1,310
One-family-only households11 1,225
Couple-family households12 1,090
Without children 710
With children 375
Lone-parent-family households 135
Other family households13 85
One-family households with persons not in a census family 65
Couple-family households14 40
Without children 25
With children 20
Lone-parent-family households 25
Two-or-more-family households 20
Non-census-family households 625
One-person households 565
Two-or-more-person households 60
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,930
Single-detached house 1,655
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 215
Other dwelling17 65
Semi-detached house 5
Row house 5
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 55
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 1,935
1 person 570
2 persons 855
3 persons 260
4 persons 190
5 persons 40
6 or more persons 20
Number of persons in private households 4,140
Average number of persons in private households 2.1
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,140
  Single responses  4,130
    English  3,945
    French  125
    Non-official languages  55
      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 55
        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  35
        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  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)  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)  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          10
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  5
    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 4,140
  English only 3,950
  French only 0
  English and French 185
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,140
  English 4,045
  French 95
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 95
Official language minority (percentage)23 2.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,140
  Single responses 4,120
    English 4,085
    French 10
    Non-official languages 20
      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 20
        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 20
        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         20
    English and French 10
    English and non-official language 10
    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 4,140
  None 4,065
  Single responses  75
    English  25
    French  35
    Non-official languages  20
      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 15
        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.  5
        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  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  5
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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