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Census Profile

Thompson-Nicola J (Copper Desert Country), British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 1,560
Population in 20061 1,609
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -3.0
Total private dwellings2 924
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 655
Population density per square kilometre 0.5
Land area (square km) 3,294.52
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 1,560
0 to 4 years 60
5 to 9 years 70
10 to 14 years 100
15 to 19 years 80
15 years 20
16 years 15
17 years 15
18 years 20
19 years 5
20 to 24 years 55
25 to 29 years 75
30 to 34 years 50
35 to 39 years 100
40 to 44 years 115
45 to 49 years 130
50 to 54 years 170
55 to 59 years 150
60 to 64 years 170
65 to 69 years 100
70 to 74 years 65
75 to 79 years 40
80 to 84 years 15
85 years and over 10
Median age of the population5 47.8
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 1,325
Married or living with a common-law partner 925
Married (and not separated) 730
Living common law 195
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 400
Single (never legally married) 220
Separated 40
Divorced 80
Widowed 55
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 505
Size of census family: 2 persons 325
Size of census family: 3 persons 75
Size of census family: 4 persons 80
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 30
Total number of census families in private households8 505
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 460
Married couples 360
Without children at home 230
With children at home 125
1 child 45
2 children 60
3 or more children 20
Common-law couples 100
Without children at home 60
With children at home 40
1 child 15
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 45
Female parent 30
1 child 20
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Male parent 10
1 child 10
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 375
Under six years of age 75
6 to 14 years 165
15 to 17 years 55
18 to 24 years 65
25 years and over 25
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 1,560
Number of persons not in census families 215
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 45
Living alone 140
Number of census family persons 1,340
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 235
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 65
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 50
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 165
Total number of private households by household type10 655
Census-family households 500
One-family-only households11 455
Couple-family households12 420
Without children 270
With children 150
Lone-parent-family households 30
Other family households13 40
One-family households with persons not in a census family 30
Couple-family households14 25
Without children 10
With children 10
Lone-parent-family households 10
Two-or-more-family households 5
Non-census-family households 160
One-person households 140
Two-or-more-person households 15
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 655
Single-detached house 500
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 105
Other dwelling17 50
Semi-detached house 15
Row house 20
Apartment, duplex 10
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 0
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 655
1 person 135
2 persons 310
3 persons 80
4 persons 95
5 persons 20
6 or more persons 10
Number of persons in private households 1,560
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,560
  Single responses  1,550
    English  1,450
    French  25
    Non-official languages  80
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        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  5
        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  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  10
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  30
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  10
        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  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        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  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          10
    English and French  0
    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 1,560
  English only 1,495
  French only 0
  English and French 70
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,560
  English 1,540
  French 20
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 15
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,560
  Single responses 1,550
    English 1,535
    French 5
    Non-official languages 10
      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 10
        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 5
        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         10
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 5
    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 1,560
  None 1,515
  Single responses  45
    English  5
    French  10
    Non-official languages  35
      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 35
        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  5
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        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  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)  10
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        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  5
        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          0
    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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