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Census Profile

South Bruce, Ontario (Municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 5,685
Population in 20061 5,939
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -4.3
Total private dwellings2 2,346
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,152
Population density per square kilometre 11.7
Land area (square km) 487.27
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 5,685
0 to 4 years 310
5 to 9 years 350
10 to 14 years 365
15 to 19 years 470
15 years 90
16 years 100
17 years 80
18 years 110
19 years 95
20 to 24 years 385
25 to 29 years 280
30 to 34 years 305
35 to 39 years 280
40 to 44 years 340
45 to 49 years 440
50 to 54 years 510
55 to 59 years 455
60 to 64 years 380
65 to 69 years 250
70 to 74 years 220
75 to 79 years 175
80 to 84 years 90
85 years and over 75
Median age of the population5 41.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 81.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 4,655
Married or living with a common-law partner 3,025
Married (and not separated) 2,710
Living common law 315
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,635
Single (never legally married) 1,130
Separated 105
Divorced 160
Widowed 240
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,640
Size of census family: 2 persons 800
Size of census family: 3 persons 280
Size of census family: 4 persons 330
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 235
Total number of census families in private households8 1,635
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,510
Married couples 1,345
Without children at home 635
With children at home 715
1 child 215
2 children 280
3 or more children 215
Common-law couples 160
Without children at home 85
With children at home 75
1 child 30
2 children 30
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 135
Female parent 85
1 child 40
2 children 20
3 or more children 20
Male parent 50
1 child 30
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 1,910
Under six years of age 375
6 to 14 years 645
15 to 17 years 260
18 to 24 years 485
25 years and over 145
Average number of children at home per census family 1.2
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,675
Number of persons not in census families 625
Living with relatives9 55
Living with non-relatives only 70
Living alone 495
Number of census family persons 5,050
Average number of persons per census family 3.1
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 815
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 250
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 225
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 560
Total number of private households by household type10 2,155
Census-family households 1,620
One-family-only households11 1,565
Couple-family households12 1,455
Without children 690
With children 765
Lone-parent-family households 110
Other family households13 55
One-family households with persons not in a census family 40
Couple-family households14 30
Without children 20
With children 10
Lone-parent-family households 10
Two-or-more-family households 15
Non-census-family households 530
One-person households 495
Two-or-more-person households 35
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,150
Single-detached house 1,920
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 40
Other dwelling17 190
Semi-detached house 5
Row house 95
Apartment, duplex 20
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 70
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 2,150
1 person 495
2 persons 785
3 persons 285
4 persons 330
5 persons 165
6 or more persons 95
Number of persons in private households 5,675
Average number of persons in private households 2.6
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,675
  Single responses  5,660
    English  5,365
    French  10
    Non-official languages  290
      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 285
        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  5
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  75
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  165
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  5
        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  5
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        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  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          15
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  10
    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 5,675
  English only 5,465
  French only 5
  English and French 190
  Neither English nor French 25
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,675
  English 5,640
  French 10
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 20
Official language minority (number)23 10
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,675
  Single responses 5,660
    English 5,545
    French 5
    Non-official languages 110
      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 110
        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 25
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 85
        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         15
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 15
    French and non-official language 0
    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 5,675
  None 5,540
  Single responses  135
    English  35
    French  20
    Non-official languages  75
      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 80
        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  30
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  25
        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  5
        Romanian  5
        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          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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