Census Profile: East Kootenay B, British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)

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East Kootenay B, British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)
Characteristics	Total
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 2011¹	1,746
Population in 2006¹	1,819
2006 to 2011 population change (%)	-4.0
Total private dwellings²	1,159
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents³	727
Population density per square kilometre	0.6
Land area (square km)	2,782.59
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups⁴	1,745
0 to 4 years	85
5 to 9 years	80
10 to 14 years	100
15 to 19 years	105
15 years	15
16 years	25
17 years	25
18 years	20
19 years	15
20 to 24 years	65
25 to 29 years	60
30 to 34 years	95
35 to 39 years	90
40 to 44 years	115
45 to 49 years	130
50 to 54 years	175
55 to 59 years	185
60 to 64 years	155
65 to 69 years	125
70 to 74 years	85
75 to 79 years	50
80 to 84 years	35
85 years and over	10
Median age of the population⁵	48.4
% of the population aged 15 and over	85.0
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status⁶	1,485
Married or living with a common-law partner	1,030
Married (and not separated)	875
Living common law	155
Not married and not living with a common-law partner	455
Single (never legally married)	255
Separated	35
Divorced	65
Widowed	95
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households⁷	545
Size of census family: 2 persons	320
Size of census family: 3 persons	105
Size of census family: 4 persons	75
Size of census family: 5 or more persons	35
Total number of census families in private households⁸	545
Total couple families by family structure and number of children	495
Married couples	420
Without children at home	250
With children at home	170
1 child	75
2 children	65
3 or more children	30
Common-law couples	75
Without children at home	50
With children at home	25
1 child	15
2 children	5
3 or more children	5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children	45
Female parent	25
1 child	10
2 children	10
3 or more children	5
Male parent	20
1 child	15
2 children	5
3 or more children	5
Total children in census families in private households	425
Under six years of age	95
6 to 14 years	155
15 to 17 years	65
18 to 24 years	75
25 years and over	40
Average number of children at home per census family	0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households	1,685
Number of persons not in census families	225
Living with relatives⁹	20
Living with non-relatives only	30
Living alone	170
Number of census family persons	1,465
Average number of persons per census family	2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households	290
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over	90
Living with relatives⁹	5
Living with non-relatives only	5
Living alone	80
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over	200
Total number of private households by household type¹⁰	730
Census-family households	545
One-family-only households¹¹	525
Couple-family households¹²	485
Without children	290
With children	190
Lone-parent-family households	45
Other family households¹³	15
One-family households with persons not in a census family	15
Couple-family households¹⁴	10
Without children	5
With children	5
Lone-parent-family households	5
Two-or-more-family households	5
Non-census-family households	185
One-person households	170
Two-or-more-person households	15
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling¹⁵	730
Single-detached house	605
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys	0
Movable dwelling¹⁶	110
Other dwelling¹⁷	15
Semi-detached house	5
Row house	0
Apartment, duplex	0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys	10
Other single-attached house	0
Total number of private households by household size¹⁸	730
1 person	175
2 persons	325
3 persons	110
4 persons	85
5 persons	30
6 or more persons	10
Number of persons in private households	1,685
Average number of persons in private households	2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents¹⁹	1,745
Single responses	1,740
English	1,610
French	60
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	75
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	5
Estonian	0
Finnish	0
Flemish	0
Fukien	0
German	35
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	0
Romanian	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0
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	5
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	5
English and French	0
English and non-official language	0
French and non-official language	5
English, French and non-official language	0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents¹⁹	1,745
English only	1,645
French only	5
English and French	90
Neither English nor French	0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents¹⁹	1,745
English	1,680
French	65
English and French	5
Neither English nor French	0
Official language minority (number)²³	65
Official language minority (percentage)²³	3.7
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents¹⁹	1,745
Single responses	1,740
English	1,675
French	55
Non-official languages	15
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	5
Estonian	0
Finnish	0
Flemish	0
Fukien	0
German	10
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	5
English and French	0
English and non-official language	5
French and non-official language	5
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	1,745
None	1,670
Single responses	65
English	30
French	10
Non-official languages	25
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	25
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	5
Flemish	0
Fukien	0
German	10
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	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	5
English and French	5
English and non-official language	5
French and non-official language	0
English, French and non-official language	0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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