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Census Profile

Behchokò, Northwest Territories (Community government)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 1,926
Population in 20061 1,894
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 1.7
Total private dwellings2 558
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 458
Population density per square kilometre 25.6
Land area (square km) 75.17
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 1,925
0 to 4 years 240
5 to 9 years 190
10 to 14 years 205
15 to 19 years 185
15 years 40
16 years 30
17 years 35
18 years 40
19 years 40
20 to 24 years 165
25 to 29 years 135
30 to 34 years 130
35 to 39 years 120
40 to 44 years 125
45 to 49 years 95
50 to 54 years 100
55 to 59 years 65
60 to 64 years 50
65 to 69 years 40
70 to 74 years 35
75 to 79 years 15
80 to 84 years 10
85 years and over 10
Median age of the population5 24.0
% of the population aged 15 and over 66.8
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 1,290
Married or living with a common-law partner 625
Married (and not separated) 300
Living common law 320
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 670
Single (never legally married) 595
Separated 20
Divorced 5
Widowed 45
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 455
Size of census family: 2 persons 130
Size of census family: 3 persons 110
Size of census family: 4 persons 85
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 125
Total number of census families in private households8 455
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 300
Married couples 145
Without children at home 25
With children at home 115
1 child 35
2 children 35
3 or more children 50
Common-law couples 160
Without children at home 35
With children at home 125
1 child 35
2 children 30
3 or more children 65
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 150
Female parent 110
1 child 50
2 children 30
3 or more children 35
Male parent 40
1 child 25
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 965
Under six years of age 260
6 to 14 years 360
15 to 17 years 100
18 to 24 years 150
25 years and over 95
Average number of children at home per census family 2.1
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 1,915
Number of persons not in census families 195
Living with relatives9 85
Living with non-relatives only 35
Living alone 70
Number of census family persons 1,720
Average number of persons per census family 3.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 100
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 30
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 15
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 75
Total number of private households by household type10 455
Census-family households 375
One-family-only households11 255
Couple-family households12 200
Without children 45
With children 160
Lone-parent-family households 60
Other family households13 115
One-family households with persons not in a census family 40
Couple-family households14 30
Without children 0
With children 25
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 75
Non-census-family households 80
One-person households 70
Two-or-more-person households 15
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 460
Single-detached house 345
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 115
Semi-detached house 45
Row house 40
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 25
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 455
1 person 70
2 persons 70
3 persons 70
4 persons 65
5 persons 60
6 or more persons 125
Number of persons in private households 1,910
Average number of persons in private households 4.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,915
  Single responses  1,910
    English  835
    French  5
    Non-official languages  1,065
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        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 5
        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  0
        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 1,055
  Multiple responses          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  5
    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 1,920
  English only 1,850
  French only 0
  English and French 35
  Neither English nor French 40
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,920
  English 1,870
  French 5
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 40
Official language minority (number)23 5
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,915
  Single responses 1,905
    English 1,255
    French 0
    Non-official languages 655
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 5
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        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 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 0
        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 650
  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
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,920
  None 885
  Single responses  1,035
    English  510
    French  0
    Non-official languages  520
      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 0
        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  0
        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 515
  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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