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Census Profile

Whistler, British Columbia (District municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 9,824
Population in 20061 9,248
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 6.2
Total private dwellings2 9,239
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 3,900
Population density per square kilometre 40.9
Land area (square km) 240.40
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 9,825
0 to 4 years 420
5 to 9 years 405
10 to 14 years 375
15 to 19 years 420
15 years 80
16 years 60
17 years 75
18 years 100
19 years 110
20 to 24 years 1,130
25 to 29 years 1,515
30 to 34 years 1,150
35 to 39 years 870
40 to 44 years 830
45 to 49 years 730
50 to 54 years 605
55 to 59 years 465
60 to 64 years 410
65 to 69 years 260
70 to 74 years 115
75 to 79 years 75
80 to 84 years 30
85 years and over 15
Median age of the population5 32.4
% of the population aged 15 and over 87.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 8,630
Married or living with a common-law partner 4,315
Married (and not separated) 2,845
Living common law 1,470
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 4,310
Single (never legally married) 3,720
Separated 155
Divorced 355
Widowed 85
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 2,235
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,290
Size of census family: 3 persons 450
Size of census family: 4 persons 385
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 110
Total number of census families in private households8 2,235
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 2,060
Married couples 1,355
Without children at home 610
With children at home 740
1 child 300
2 children 345
3 or more children 100
Common-law couples 700
Without children at home 585
With children at home 120
1 child 75
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 180
Female parent 135
1 child 65
2 children 55
3 or more children 10
Male parent 45
1 child 25
2 children 15
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,745
Under six years of age 500
6 to 14 years 680
15 to 17 years 195
18 to 24 years 290
25 years and over 80
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 9,135
Number of persons not in census families 3,100
Living with relatives9 110
Living with non-relatives only 1,870
Living alone 1,125
Number of census family persons 6,035
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 495
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 140
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 120
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 355
Total number of private households by household type10 3,900
Census-family households 2,190
One-family-only households11 1,920
Couple-family households12 1,780
Without children 1,000
With children 785
Lone-parent-family households 145
Other family households13 270
One-family households with persons not in a census family 230
Couple-family households14 200
Without children 140
With children 60
Lone-parent-family households 30
Two-or-more-family households 40
Non-census-family households 1,710
One-person households 1,125
Two-or-more-person households 585
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 3,900
Single-detached house 850
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 5
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 3,040
Semi-detached house 275
Row house 915
Apartment, duplex 870
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 980
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 3,900
1 person 1,125
2 persons 1,425
3 persons 625
4 persons 490
5 persons 160
6 or more persons 80
Number of persons in private households 9,130
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,825
  Single responses  9,665
    English  7,920
    French  560
    Non-official languages  1,190
      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 1,175
        African languages, n.i.e.  5
        Afrikaans  15
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  15
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  10
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  25
        Bosnian  5
        Bulgarian  10
        Burmese  5
        Cantonese  25
        Chinese, n.o.s.  25
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  65
        Danish  10
        Dutch  35
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  155
        Greek  10
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  5
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  25
        Japanese  225
        Khmer (Cambodian)  5
        Korean  35
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  5
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  10
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  25
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  20
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  20
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        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  25
        Slovenian  10
        Somali  0
        Spanish  90
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  20
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  160
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  5
        Telugu  0
        Thai  10
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  5
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses          160
    English and French  55
    English and non-official language  90
    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 9,825
  English only 8,040
  French only 10
  English and French 1,745
  Neither English nor French 25
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,825
  English 9,225
  French 540
  English and French 35
  Neither English nor French 25
Official language minority (number)23 555
Official language minority (percentage)23 5.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,825
  Single responses 9,645
    English 8,905
    French 265
    Non-official languages 480
      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 480
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 10
        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 10
        Bosnian 5
        Bulgarian 10
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 15
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 30
        Danish 0
        Dutch 5
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 5
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 15
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 5
        Hungarian 5
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 5
        Japanese 150
        Khmer (Cambodian) 5
        Korean 15
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 5
        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) 5
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 10
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 20
        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 50
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 10
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 60
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 5
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         180
    English and French 35
    English and non-official language 145
    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 9,825
  None 8,610
  Single responses  1,175
    English  385
    French  350
    Non-official languages  435
      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 430
        African languages, n.i.e.  5
        Afrikaans  5
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  5
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  5
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  5
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  15
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  70
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  20
        Japanese  75
        Khmer (Cambodian)  5
        Korean  15
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  10
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  5
        Portuguese  5
        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  40
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  10
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  65
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses          35
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  10
    French and non-official language  30
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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