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Census Profile

Brigham, Quebec (Municipalité)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 2,457
Population in 20061 2,408
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 2.0
Total private dwellings2 1,071
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 993
Population density per square kilometre 28.2
Land area (square km) 87.08
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 2,460
0 to 4 years 155
5 to 9 years 125
10 to 14 years 150
15 to 19 years 160
15 years 20
16 years 30
17 years 35
18 years 30
19 years 40
20 to 24 years 105
25 to 29 years 135
30 to 34 years 170
35 to 39 years 150
40 to 44 years 170
45 to 49 years 180
50 to 54 years 210
55 to 59 years 220
60 to 64 years 195
65 to 69 years 135
70 to 74 years 90
75 to 79 years 55
80 to 84 years 25
85 years and over 20
Median age of the population5 42.0
% of the population aged 15 and over 82.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 2,020
Married or living with a common-law partner 1,345
Married (and not separated) 765
Living common law 585
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 670
Single (never legally married) 470
Separated 20
Divorced 105
Widowed 80
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 755
Size of census family: 2 persons 405
Size of census family: 3 persons 145
Size of census family: 4 persons 135
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 75
Total number of census families in private households8 755
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 670
Married couples 380
Without children at home 225
With children at home 155
1 child 55
2 children 65
3 or more children 35
Common-law couples 290
Without children at home 135
With children at home 155
1 child 60
2 children 60
3 or more children 35
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 80
Female parent 55
1 child 30
2 children 20
3 or more children 5
Male parent 25
1 child 15
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 725
Under six years of age 185
6 to 14 years 255
15 to 17 years 85
18 to 24 years 150
25 years and over 55
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 2,455
Number of persons not in census families 300
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 55
Living alone 220
Number of census family persons 2,155
Average number of persons per census family 2.9
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 320
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 80
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 65
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 235
Total number of private households by household type10 990
Census-family households 750
One-family-only households11 715
Couple-family households12 645
Without children 350
With children 295
Lone-parent-family households 70
Other family households13 35
One-family households with persons not in a census family 30
Couple-family households14 20
Without children 5
With children 15
Lone-parent-family households 10
Two-or-more-family households 5
Non-census-family households 240
One-person households 220
Two-or-more-person households 20
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 990
Single-detached house 850
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 110
Other dwelling17 30
Semi-detached house 10
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 10
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 995
1 person 220
2 persons 410
3 persons 145
4 persons 140
5 persons 55
6 or more persons 20
Number of persons in private households 2,455
Average number of persons in private households 2.5
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,455
  Single responses  2,410
    English  300
    French  2,065
    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 50
        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  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  15
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        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  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)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          45
    English and French  35
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 5
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,460
  English only 80
  French only 1,235
  English and French 1,145
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,460
  English 335
  French 2,095
  English and French 20
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 350
Official language minority (percentage)23 14.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,460
  Single responses 2,405
    English 310
    French 2,095
    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 5
        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 5
        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 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 0
  Multiple responses         50
    English and French 45
    English and non-official language 0
    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 2,455
  None 2,145
  Single responses  295
    English  185
    French  100
    Non-official languages  10
      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  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  5
        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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