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Census Profile

Blainville, Quebec (Ville)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 53,510
Population in 20061 46,493
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 15.1
Total private dwellings2 19,272
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 18,732
Population density per square kilometre 971.1
Land area (square km) 55.10
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 53,510
0 to 4 years 3,455
5 to 9 years 4,140
10 to 14 years 4,525
15 to 19 years 4,660
15 years 935
16 years 950
17 years 965
18 years 915
19 years 895
20 to 24 years 2,855
25 to 29 years 2,185
30 to 34 years 3,240
35 to 39 years 4,345
40 to 44 years 5,005
45 to 49 years 5,490
50 to 54 years 4,320
55 to 59 years 2,885
60 to 64 years 2,205
65 to 69 years 1,705
70 to 74 years 1,140
75 to 79 years 710
80 to 84 years 395
85 years and over 240
Median age of the population5 37.1
% of the population aged 15 and over 77.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 41,390
Married or living with a common-law partner 26,750
Married (and not separated) 15,570
Living common law 11,180
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 14,640
Single (never legally married) 10,840
Separated 560
Divorced 2,110
Widowed 1,130
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 15,555
Size of census family: 2 persons 6,055
Size of census family: 3 persons 3,605
Size of census family: 4 persons 4,305
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 1,595
Total number of census families in private households8 15,560
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 13,210
Married couples 7,625
Without children at home 2,850
With children at home 4,775
1 child 1,440
2 children 2,365
3 or more children 970
Common-law couples 5,580
Without children at home 1,945
With children at home 3,635
1 child 1,295
2 children 1,750
3 or more children 590
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 2,350
Female parent 1,695
1 child 905
2 children 615
3 or more children 170
Male parent 655
1 child 360
2 children 245
3 or more children 55
Total children in census families in private households 19,745
Under six years of age 4,220
6 to 14 years 7,835
15 to 17 years 2,825
18 to 24 years 3,905
25 years and over 955
Average number of children at home per census family 1.3
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 53,070
Number of persons not in census families 4,560
Living with relatives9 735
Living with non-relatives only 785
Living alone 3,040
Number of census family persons 48,510
Average number of persons per census family 3.1
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 3,800
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 975
Living with relatives9 275
Living with non-relatives only 80
Living alone 620
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 2,830
Total number of private households by household type10 18,735
Census-family households 15,360
One-family-only households11 14,490
Couple-family households12 12,475
Without children 4,460
With children 8,015
Lone-parent-family households 2,010
Other family households13 875
One-family households with persons not in a census family 690
Couple-family households14 455
Without children 165
With children 290
Lone-parent-family households 230
Two-or-more-family households 190
Non-census-family households 3,365
One-person households 3,045
Two-or-more-person households 325
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 18,735
Single-detached house 13,565
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 130
Other dwelling17 5,035
Semi-detached house 1,015
Row house 195
Apartment, duplex 1,175
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 2,630
Other single-attached house 10
Total number of private households by household size18 18,735
1 person 3,045
2 persons 5,790
3 persons 3,680
4 persons 4,360
5 persons 1,375
6 or more persons 490
Number of persons in private households 53,070
Average number of persons in private households 2.8
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 53,510
  Single responses  52,745
    English  1,735
    French  47,905
    Non-official languages  3,105
      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 3,080
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  510
        Armenian  65
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  5
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  10
        Bisayan languages  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  10
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  10
        Chinese, n.o.s.  20
        Creoles  135
        Croatian  10
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  30
        Greek  95
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  5
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  20
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  5
        Italian  485
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  30
        Korean  5
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  30
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  5
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  10
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  10
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  25
        Polish  50
        Portuguese  605
        Romanian  155
        Rundi (Kirundi)  5
        Russian  55
        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  10
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  490
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  15
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  5
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  10
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  90
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 25
  Multiple responses          765
    English and French  460
    English and non-official language  55
    French and non-official language  205
    English, French and non-official language 45
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 53,510
  English only 390
  French only 26,210
  English and French 26,815
  Neither English nor French 95
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 53,510
  English 2,515
  French 50,130
  English and French 775
  Neither English nor French 85
Official language minority (number)23 2,905
Official language minority (percentage)23 5.4
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 53,510
  Single responses 52,380
    English 2,185
    French 49,085
    Non-official languages 1,115
      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 1,105
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 5
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 195
        Armenian 30
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 5
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 35
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 10
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 5
        Greek 15
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 5
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 40
        Japanese 5
        Khmer (Cambodian) 25
        Korean 5
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 10
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 5
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 5
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 10
        Polish 20
        Portuguese 220
        Romanian 95
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 35
        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 5
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 245
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 5
        Ukrainian 5
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 45
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses         1,130
    English and French 485
    English and non-official language 75
    French and non-official language 465
    English, French and non-official language 105
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 53,510
  None 46,610
  Single responses  6,535
    English  3,875
    French  1,425
    Non-official languages  1,235
      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 1,215
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  200
        Armenian  20
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  5
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  10
        Creoles  145
        Croatian  0
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  15
        Greek  65
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  185
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  5
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  10
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  5
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  5
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  205
        Romanian  15
        Rundi (Kirundi)  5
        Russian  10
        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  220
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  5
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  30
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 20
  Multiple responses          370
    English and French  80
    English and non-official language  175
    French and non-official language  110
    English, French and non-official language  5

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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