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Bécancour, Quebec (Ville)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 12,438
Population in 20061 10,975 A
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 13.3
Total private dwellings2 5,667
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 5,330
Population density per square kilometre 28.2
Land area (square km) 440.74
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 12,440
0 to 4 years 715
5 to 9 years 610
10 to 14 years 635
15 to 19 years 725
15 years 130
16 years 155
17 years 150
18 years 135
19 years 155
20 to 24 years 670
25 to 29 years 730
30 to 34 years 875
35 to 39 years 705
40 to 44 years 715
45 to 49 years 920
50 to 54 years 1,075
55 to 59 years 1,035
60 to 64 years 895
65 to 69 years 710
70 to 74 years 445
75 to 79 years 355
80 to 84 years 320
85 years and over 315
Median age of the population5 44.0
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 10,480
Married or living with a common-law partner 6,320
Married (and not separated) 3,465
Living common law 2,860
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,160
Single (never legally married) 2,735
Separated 130
Divorced 595
Widowed 690
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 3,585
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,970
Size of census family: 3 persons 695
Size of census family: 4 persons 680
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 240
Total number of census families in private households8 3,585
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 3,090
Married couples 1,665
Without children at home 1,050
With children at home 610
1 child 255
2 children 240
3 or more children 120
Common-law couples 1,425
Without children at home 610
With children at home 820
1 child 295
2 children 405
3 or more children 110
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 495
Female parent 370
1 child 220
2 children 120
3 or more children 30
Male parent 125
1 child 85
2 children 30
3 or more children 10
Total children in census families in private households 3,325
Under six years of age 840
6 to 14 years 1,110
15 to 17 years 425
18 to 24 years 690
25 years and over 260
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 12,010
Number of persons not in census families 2,010
Living with relatives9 145
Living with non-relatives only 200
Living alone 1,665
Number of census family persons 10,005
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,780
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 585
Living with relatives9 45
Living with non-relatives only 20
Living alone 525
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,195
Total number of private households by household type10 5,330
Census-family households 3,560
One-family-only households11 3,440
Couple-family households12 3,005
Without children 1,620
With children 1,385
Lone-parent-family households 440
Other family households13 120
One-family households with persons not in a census family 95
Couple-family households14 55
Without children 30
With children 30
Lone-parent-family households 40
Two-or-more-family households 25
Non-census-family households 1,770
One-person households 1,665
Two-or-more-person households 110
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 5,330
Single-detached house 3,760
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 35
Other dwelling17 1,535
Semi-detached house 175
Row house 145
Apartment, duplex 190
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 990
Other single-attached house 35
Total number of private households by household size18 5,330
1 person 1,665
2 persons 1,980
3 persons 730
4 persons 685
5 persons 195
6 or more persons 70
Number of persons in private households 12,010
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,035
  Single responses  11,975
    English  130
    French  11,750
    Non-official languages  90
      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 95
        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  5
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  40
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        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  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  10
        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  15
        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          65
    English and French  45
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,035
  English only 15
  French only 8,895
  English and French 3,125
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,035
  English 130
  French 11,865
  English and French 35
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 150
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 12,035
  Single responses 11,975
    English 65
    French 11,875
    Non-official languages 35
      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 35
        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 15
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        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 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 5
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        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 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         60
    English and French 40
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 10
    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 12,035
  None 11,630
  Single responses  390
    English  290
    French  55
    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.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  15
        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.  5
        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  15
        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 5
  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.