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Census Profile

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec (Municipalité)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 12,291
Population in 20061 12,560
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -2.1
Total private dwellings2 5,924
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 5,173
Population density per square kilometre 73.1
Land area (square km) 168.11
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 12,290
0 to 4 years 440
5 to 9 years 510
10 to 14 years 515
15 to 19 years 735
15 years 120
16 years 160
17 years 160
18 years 160
19 years 135
20 to 24 years 600
25 to 29 years 520
30 to 34 years 560
35 to 39 years 655
40 to 44 years 870
45 to 49 years 1,165
50 to 54 years 1,255
55 to 59 years 1,110
60 to 64 years 1,045
65 to 69 years 785
70 to 74 years 570
75 to 79 years 435
80 to 84 years 270
85 years and over 265
Median age of the population5 48.3
% of the population aged 15 and over 88.1
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 10,830
Married or living with a common-law partner 6,735
Married (and not separated) 3,880
Living common law 2,860
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,095
Single (never legally married) 2,845
Separated 100
Divorced 380
Widowed 770
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 3,835
Size of census family: 2 persons 2,080
Size of census family: 3 persons 985
Size of census family: 4 persons 650
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 125
Total number of census families in private households8 3,835
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 3,320
Married couples 1,890
Without children at home 1,140
With children at home 755
1 child 405
2 children 285
3 or more children 65
Common-law couples 1,430
Without children at home 575
With children at home 855
1 child 455
2 children 340
3 or more children 55
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 515
Female parent 410
1 child 295
2 children 90
3 or more children 20
Male parent 110
1 child 75
2 children 30
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 3,185
Under six years of age 525
6 to 14 years 930
15 to 17 years 430
18 to 24 years 790
25 years and over 515
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 12,065
Number of persons not in census families 1,725
Living with relatives9 265
Living with non-relatives only 170
Living alone 1,295
Number of census family persons 10,335
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 2,130
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 635
Living with relatives9 135
Living with non-relatives only 35
Living alone 465
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,500
Total number of private households by household type10 5,175
Census-family households 3,760
One-family-only households11 3,535
Couple-family households12 3,100
Without children 1,590
With children 1,510
Lone-parent-family households 435
Other family households13 225
One-family households with persons not in a census family 150
Couple-family households14 115
Without children 50
With children 65
Lone-parent-family households 35
Two-or-more-family households 75
Non-census-family households 1,415
One-person households 1,295
Two-or-more-person households 120
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 5,175
Single-detached house 4,445
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 25
Other dwelling17 705
Semi-detached house 170
Row house 60
Apartment, duplex 105
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 360
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 5,170
1 person 1,290
2 persons 2,010
3 persons 985
4 persons 685
5 persons 155
6 or more persons 45
Number of persons in private households 12,065
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,180
  Single responses  12,145
    English  270
    French  11,850
    Non-official languages  25
      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  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        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  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          35
    English and French  35
    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 12,180
  English only 140
  French only 9,535
  English and French 2,500
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,175
  English 270
  French 11,890
  English and French 15
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 275
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 12,180
  Single responses 12,125
    English 220
    French 11,900
    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         55
    English and French 50
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 5
    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 12,180
  None 11,890
  Single responses  280
    English  230
    French  35
    Non-official languages  15
      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.  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  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)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        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          10
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  10
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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