Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), 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 mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Markham, CY
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 327,790 275,715 125 19,155 32,790
Single responses 313,575 263,530 115 17,275 32,660
Official languages 116,085 105,245 45 10,515 275
English 114,200 105,145 5 8,785 265
French 1,885 105 40 1,735 10
Non-official languages 197,495 158,285 65 6,755 32,390
Aboriginal languages 5 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 5 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 197,490 158,280 65 6,755 32,385
Afro-Asiatic languages 3,355 2,775 10 440 125
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 140 120 0 10 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0
Somali 130 115 0 10 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 3,210 2,655 10 430 120
Amharic 55 55 0 0 0
Arabic 2,720 2,195 10 400 110
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Harari 45 40 0 0 0
Hebrew 310 280 0 25 0
Maltese 40 40 0 5 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,165 935 0 60 175
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 35 0 5 10
Vietnamese 1,125 895 5 60 165
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,515 5,405 5 55 50
Bikol 20 15 0 0 0
Cebuano 145 145 0 5 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 75 70 0 5 0
Ilocano 215 210 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 335 320 0 5 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 35 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,640 4,560 0 40 30
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 215 50 5 150 10
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 165 20 10 135 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 50 30 0 15 0
Dravidian languages 15,620 13,810 0 570 1,240
Kannada 85 80 0 0 0
Malayalam 575 535 0 20 20
Tamil 14,620 12,880 0 535 1,210
Telugu 335 315 0 15 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 5 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 44,775 39,630 20 2,580 2,540
Albanian 95 90 0 5 5
Armenian 1,355 1,070 5 225 60
Balto-Slavic languages 5,025 4,490 0 305 230
Baltic languages 110 95 0 15 0
Latvian 60 50 0 15 0
Lithuanian 50 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages 4,915 4,390 0 290 235
Belarusan 5 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 25 30 0 0 0
Bulgarian 160 135 0 10 5
Croatian 105 90 0 5 0
Czech 80 75 0 5 0
Macedonian 1,185 1,115 0 25 45
Polish 600 550 0 45 10
Russian 1,995 1,720 0 125 150
Serbian 340 290 0 35 15
Serbo-Croatian 35 25 0 10 0
Slovak 80 70 0 10 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 65 65 0 0 0
Ukrainian 230 210 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,455 1,320 0 135 0
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0 0
Danish 50 50 0 5 0
Dutch 245 220 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 930 845 0 85 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 10 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 145 120 0 20 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 2,455 2,255 0 110 90
Indo-Iranian languages 26,935 24,060 10 1,085 1,780
Indo-Aryan languages 19,150 17,240 5 670 1,245
Bengali 655 595 0 35 20
Gujarati 4,515 3,920 0 140 445
Hindi 2,420 2,240 0 75 95
Kashmiri 15 10 0 0 5
Konkani 95 85 0 5 0
Marathi 230 205 0 15 10
Nepali 45 45 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 15 15 0 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 3,775 3,270 0 120 380
Sindhi 660 605 0 45 15
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 360 345 0 10 10
Urdu 6,380 5,895 5 220 260
Iranian languages 7,695 6,740 5 415 540
Kurdish 80 80 0 0 0
Pashto 335 285 0 15 35
Persian (Farsi) 7,285 6,380 0 395 505
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 85 80 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 7,430 6,345 5 715 365
Catalan 10 5 0 0 0
Italian 3,690 3,245 0 230 215
Portuguese 690 600 0 65 25
Romanian 945 700 5 210 35
Spanish 2,085 1,780 5 215 90
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Japanese 435 385 0 15 25
Kartvelian languages 40 35 0 0 5
Georgian 40 35 0 0 5
Korean 3,235 2,720 5 110 405
Mongolic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 295 270 0 30 0
Akan (Twi) 65 65 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 35 30 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 10 0
Shona 15 15 0 5 0
Swahili 75 75 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 55 15 0 5 40
American Sign Language 5 0 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 10 0 0 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 121,415 91,030 25 2,640 27,720
Chinese languages 121,315 90,935 20 2,640 27,715
Cantonese 72,615 55,780 10 1,625 15,200
Hakka 2,240 1,890 0 35 315
Mandarin 41,795 30,110 15 910 10,760
Min Dong 225 90 0 0 135
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 2,000 1,265 0 25 705
Wu (Shanghainese) 945 650 0 15 275
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,480 1,140 0 25 315
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 100 95 0 0 5
Burmese 85 80 0 0 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 5 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 155 140 0 10 10
Lao 85 75 0 5 0
Thai 70 65 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 485 410 0 35 35
Azerbaijani 95 75 0 10 10
Turkish 360 310 0 30 20
Uyghur 5 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Uralic languages 705 650 0 45 10
Estonian 85 75 0 5 0
Finnish 110 105 0 5 0
Hungarian 515 470 0 40 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 14,210 12,185 10 1,880 135
English and French 590 85 0 500 0
English and non-official language 12,980 11,975 0 885 130
French and non-official language 245 55 10 170 5
English, French and non-official language 395 65 0 325 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

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Data quality note(s) – Markham, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.1%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016054.

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