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 and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), 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--Stouffville
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 1 125,015 110,920 65 8,585 5,445
Single responses 120,095 106,775 55 7,840 5,420
Official languages 69,450 63,630 40 5,740 45
English 68,350 63,575 5 4,725 45
French 1,100 55 30 1,010 0
Non-official languages 50,645 43,145 15 2,105 5,375
Aboriginal languages 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 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) 0 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 50,645 43,145 15 2,105 5,375
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,305 1,075 0 190 40
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 25 25 0 5 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,275 1,050 0 180 40
Amharic 35 35 0 0 0
Arabic 1,145 925 0 175 40
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 30 25 0 0 0
Hebrew 25 20 0 5 0
Maltese 25 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 5 5 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 440 365 0 25 55
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 5 0
Vietnamese 420 345 0 25 50
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,395 2,335 0 40 20
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 65 65 0 0 0
Fijian 5 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 45 40 0 5 0
Ilocano 55 55 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 105 100 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 30 25 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 5 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,065 2,020 0 35 20
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 10 15 0 0 0
Creole languages 100 25 5 70 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 75 5 5 60 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 6,925 6,125 0 280 520
Kannada 45 45 0 0 0
Malayalam 310 285 0 15 10
Tamil 6,360 5,605 0 255 510
Telugu 200 185 0 10 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 16,485 14,810 0 955 725
Albanian 75 65 0 5 5
Armenian 450 360 0 65 20
Balto-Slavic languages 2,170 1,985 0 135 55
Baltic languages 45 40 0 10 0
Latvian 30 25 0 10 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,125 1,945 0 120 55
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 5
Croatian 50 45 0 0 0
Czech 70 65 0 5 0
Macedonian 800 765 0 20 15
Polish 415 380 0 25 5
Russian 410 360 0 25 30
Serbian 115 100 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0 0
Slovak 40 35 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 35 30 0 0 0
Ukrainian 115 95 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,030 940 0 85 5
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 30 30 0 0 0
Dutch 220 205 0 15 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 730 665 0 60 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 5 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 1,235 1,150 0 45 30
Indo-Iranian languages 7,120 6,435 0 280 405
Indo-Aryan languages 6,150 5,570 0 240 340
Bengali 280 250 0 20 10
Gujarati 1,450 1,260 0 50 135
Hindi 815 760 0 30 20
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 0
Konkani 30 30 0 0 0
Marathi 95 80 0 5 0
Nepali 25 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 10 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 985 855 0 40 95
Sindhi 180 170 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 190 180 0 5 5
Urdu 2,100 1,945 0 80 75
Iranian languages 940 835 0 40 60
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0
Pashto 95 90 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 835 740 0 40 55
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 4,400 3,865 0 340 200
Catalan 5 5 0 0 0
Italian 2,575 2,310 0 145 115
Portuguese 465 420 0 25 20
Romanian 355 265 0 65 25
Spanish 995 860 0 100 40
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 130 120 0 5 5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 445 390 0 20 35
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 105 85 5 20 0
Akan (Twi) 25 20 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 5 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 5 0 0 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 5 0
Shona 5 5 0 5 0
Swahili 20 25 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 0 0 0 15
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 0 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 21,740 17,315 5 465 3,950
Chinese languages 21,720 17,300 10 465 3,950
Cantonese 14,245 11,510 5 295 2,435
Hakka 405 335 0 10 65
Mandarin 6,315 4,890 0 140 1,290
Min Dong 15 5 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 315 240 0 10 70
Wu (Shanghainese) 145 105 0 0 35
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 210 0 15 50
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 20 15 0 0 0
Burmese 15 20 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 55 50 0 5 0
Lao 25 25 0 0 0
Thai 25 25 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 135 115 0 10 5
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 5
Turkish 85 75 0 5 5
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 20 15 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 360 330 0 30 0
Estonian 40 35 0 0 0
Finnish 95 95 0 5 0
Hungarian 230 200 0 25 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Multiple responses 4,920 4,145 5 740 25
English and French 320 40 5 275 0
English and non-official language 4,390 4,075 0 300 25
French and non-official language 85 15 5 65 0
English, French and non-official language 120 20 0 105 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--Stouffville

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.3%.
  • 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-X2016059.

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