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Richelieu, Quebec (Ville)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 5,467
Population in 20061 5,208
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 5.0
Total private dwellings2 2,268
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,205
Population density per square kilometre 176.2
Land area (square km) 31.02
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 5,465
0 to 4 years 280
5 to 9 years 280
10 to 14 years 270
15 to 19 years 330
15 years 65
16 years 55
17 years 70
18 years 75
19 years 65
20 to 24 years 325
25 to 29 years 310
30 to 34 years 325
35 to 39 years 295
40 to 44 years 345
45 to 49 years 450
50 to 54 years 485
55 to 59 years 375
60 to 64 years 300
65 to 69 years 255
70 to 74 years 200
75 to 79 years 190
80 to 84 years 195
85 years and over 275
Median age of the population5 44.7
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 4,640
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,520
Married (and not separated) 1,405
Living common law 1,115
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 2,120
Single (never legally married) 1,280
Separated 65
Divorced 320
Widowed 455
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,475
Size of census family: 2 persons 735
Size of census family: 3 persons 350
Size of census family: 4 persons 275
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 105
Total number of census families in private households8 1,475
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,235
Married couples 675
Without children at home 345
With children at home 335
1 child 145
2 children 140
3 or more children 55
Common-law couples 560
Without children at home 250
With children at home 310
1 child 130
2 children 125
3 or more children 50
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 245
Female parent 180
1 child 110
2 children 60
3 or more children 10
Male parent 65
1 child 40
2 children 20
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 1,505
Under six years of age 350
6 to 14 years 475
15 to 17 years 185
18 to 24 years 350
25 years and over 150
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,120
Number of persons not in census families 910
Living with relatives9 80
Living with non-relatives only 170
Living alone 655
Number of census family persons 4,210
Average number of persons per census family 2.9
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 770
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 325
Living with relatives9 25
Living with non-relatives only 25
Living alone 265
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 450
Total number of private households by household type10 2,205
Census-family households 1,465
One-family-only households11 1,380
Couple-family households12 1,170
Without children 555
With children 615
Lone-parent-family households 210
Other family households13 80
One-family households with persons not in a census family 70
Couple-family households14 45
Without children 25
With children 20
Lone-parent-family households 25
Two-or-more-family households 15
Non-census-family households 740
One-person households 655
Two-or-more-person households 85
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,205
Single-detached house 1,170
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 1,035
Semi-detached house 110
Row house 70
Apartment, duplex 155
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 695
Other single-attached house 10
Total number of private households by household size18 2,205
1 person 660
2 persons 760
3 persons 370
4 persons 295
5 persons 85
6 or more persons 35
Number of persons in private households 5,125
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,185
  Single responses  5,125
    English  140
    French  4,920
    Non-official languages  65
      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 65
        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  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        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  5
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  5
        Russian  5
        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          55
    English and French  50
    English and non-official language  0
    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 5,185
  English only 20
  French only 3,015
  English and French 2,145
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,185
  English 150
  French 5,005
  English and French 20
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 160
Official language minority (percentage)23 3.1
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,185
  Single responses 5,130
    English 135
    French 4,975
    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. 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 5
        Rundi (Kirundi) 5
        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         55
    English and French 40
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 10
    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 5,180
  None 4,800
  Single responses  380
    English  265
    French  85
    Non-official languages  30
      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 30
        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  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        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  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          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.