Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), Age (15A) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in North Vancouver, CY
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 52,520 50,455 795 430 835 1,015 1.9
Single responses 49,090 47,170 720 365 835 900 1.8
Official languages 40,255 39,555 700 0 0 700 1.7
English 39,975 39,545 440 0 0 435 1.1
French 275 15 265 0 0 265 96.4
Non-official languages 8,830 7,615 20 365 835 200 2.3
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 8,835 7,610 15 365 840 200 2.3
Afro-Asiatic languages 95 85 0 15 5 10 10.5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 100 85 0 10 0 5 5.0
Amharic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 75 65 5 5 5 5 6.7
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 10 10 0 5 0 5 50.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 30 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Vietnamese 30 20 0 10 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 1,040 1,020 0 5 20 0 0.0
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 70 70 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 905 890 0 0 15 0 0.0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creole languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 65 60 0 0 5 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 35 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 5,325 4,540 20 305 465 170 3.2
Albanian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Armenian 40 30 0 10 5 5 12.5
Balto-Slavic languages 790 680 0 55 60 25 3.2
Baltic languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Latvian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 790 675 0 60 60 25 3.2
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 55 40 0 15 5 5 9.1
Croatian 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Czech 70 70 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Polish 160 145 0 10 5 5 3.1
Russian 270 215 0 30 25 15 5.6
Serbian 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Slovak 100 90 0 5 10 0 0.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ukrainian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 120 105 0 10 5 5 4.2
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 80 70 0 5 0 5 6.3
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 3,470 2,980 15 140 345 85 2.4
Indo-Aryan languages 320 290 0 5 35 0 0.0
Bengali 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Gujarati 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 35 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 170 140 0 5 30 0 0.0
Sindhi 25 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 3,145 2,690 10 135 310 80 2.5
Kurdish 45 45 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pashto 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 3,095 2,645 10 135 305 80 2.6
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italic (Romance) languages 855 715 5 90 55 50 5.8
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 90 75 0 10 10 0 0.0
Portuguese 150 130 5 5 10 0 0.0
Romanian 115 75 0 25 5 10 8.7
Spanish 510 430 5 45 25 25 4.9
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 295 270 0 5 25 5 1.7
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 845 705 0 15 130 5 0.6
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 960 765 0 15 180 10 1.0
Chinese languages 960 765 0 15 175 5 0.5
Cantonese 370 305 0 5 60 5 1.4
Hakka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mandarin 520 410 0 10 100 0 0.0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 25 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 25 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 60 50 0 0 5 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkish 50 45 0 5 5 5 10.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uralic languages 85 80 0 5 5 0 0.0
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 70 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 3,425 3,280 75 65 0 110 3.2
English and French 105 20 35 45 0 60 57.1
English and non-official language 3,240 3,235 5 0 0 5 0.2
French and non-official language 30 0 30 0 0 25 83.3
English, French and non-official language 55 25 10 25 0 20 36.4

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016070.

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