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Census Profile

Cape Dorset, Nunavut (Hamlet)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 1,363
Population in 20061 1,236
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 10.3
Total private dwellings2 409
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 355
Population density per square kilometre 139.9
Land area (square km) 9.74
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 1,360
0 to 4 years 170
5 to 9 years 145
10 to 14 years 135
15 to 19 years 135
15 years 25
16 years 25
17 years 30
18 years 25
19 years 25
20 to 24 years 120
25 to 29 years 110
30 to 34 years 100
35 to 39 years 70
40 to 44 years 80
45 to 49 years 80
50 to 54 years 65
55 to 59 years 55
60 to 64 years 50
65 to 69 years 20
70 to 74 years 20
75 to 79 years 10
80 to 84 years 5
85 years and over 0
Median age of the population5 23.8
% of the population aged 15 and over 66.6
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 905
Married or living with a common-law partner 430
Married (and not separated) 180
Living common law 250
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 480
Single (never legally married) 420
Separated 15
Divorced 5
Widowed 30
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 325
Size of census family: 2 persons 90
Size of census family: 3 persons 75
Size of census family: 4 persons 70
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 95
Total number of census families in private households8 325
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 205
Married couples 80
Without children at home 15
With children at home 65
1 child 20
2 children 15
3 or more children 35
Common-law couples 120
Without children at home 15
With children at home 105
1 child 20
2 children 35
3 or more children 50
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 120
Female parent 90
1 child 35
2 children 30
3 or more children 15
Male parent 35
1 child 20
2 children 5
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 675
Under six years of age 185
6 to 14 years 265
15 to 17 years 80
18 to 24 years 90
25 years and over 60
Average number of children at home per census family 2.1
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 1,355
Number of persons not in census families 150
Living with relatives9 70
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 65
Number of census family persons 1,210
Average number of persons per census family 3.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 50
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 10
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 5
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 35
Total number of private households by household type10 355
Census-family households 280
One-family-only households11 200
Couple-family households12 150
Without children 20
With children 125
Lone-parent-family households 55
Other family households13 75
One-family households with persons not in a census family 30
Couple-family households14 10
Without children 5
With children 10
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 50
Non-census-family households 80
One-person households 65
Two-or-more-person households 15
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 355
Single-detached house 175
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 180
Semi-detached house 25
Row house 150
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 0
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 355
1 person 65
2 persons 60
3 persons 60
4 persons 50
5 persons 40
6 or more persons 80
Number of persons in private households 1,360
Average number of persons in private households 3.8
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,365
  Single responses  1,355
    English  125
    French  5
    Non-official languages  1,235
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 1,220
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  1,225
        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  5
        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  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  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 1,365
  English only 1,095
  French only 0
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 260
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,365
  English 1,100
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 255
Official language minority (number)23 10
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.7
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 1,360
  Single responses 1,355
    English 190
    French 0
    Non-official languages 1,170
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 1,165
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 1,165
        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 5
        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 5
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         10
    English and French 0
    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 1,365
  None 805
  Single responses  560
    English  480
    French  0
    Non-official languages  75
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 75
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  70
        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 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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