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

Data table

Select data categories for this table


This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Surrey--Newton
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 1 113,805 98,360 50 3,855 11,540
Single responses 107,635 92,645 45 3,450 11,500
Official languages 37,865 35,745 10 2,045 60
English 37,355 35,685 5 1,605 60
French 505 55 5 445 0
Non-official languages 69,775 56,900 35 1,405 11,440
Aboriginal languages 25 20 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 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 5 5 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 5 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 5 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) 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 5 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 69,750 56,880 35 1,400 11,435
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,480 1,120 5 90 270
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 550 450 0 5 95
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 545 440 0 5 95
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 925 675 0 80 175
Amharic 75 70 0 5 5
Arabic 765 525 0 75 165
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 10 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 25 20 0 0 5
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 45 40 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 580 480 0 20 80
Khmer (Cambodian) 90 85 0 0 10
Vietnamese 485 405 0 20 70
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,420 3,355 0 35 30
Bikol 10 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 170 170 0 5 0
Fijian 35 35 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 45 45 0 0 0
Ilocano 145 135 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 50 45 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 15 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 40 35 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,890 2,835 0 25 25
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Creole languages 60 15 0 45 0
Haitian Creole 5 5 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 40 5 0 40 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 470 445 0 5 20
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 205 195 0 5 0
Tamil 205 190 0 0 15
Telugu 35 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 60,315 48,670 30 1,100 10,520
Albanian 15 15 0 0 5
Armenian 10 10 0 5 0
Balto-Slavic languages 855 800 0 30 30
Baltic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic languages 855 795 0 30 30
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 20 20 0 0 0
Bulgarian 15 15 0 0 0
Croatian 70 70 0 0 0
Czech 50 45 0 5 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0
Polish 265 245 0 10 10
Russian 235 210 0 10 20
Serbian 40 35 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 15 15 0 0 0
Slovak 40 40 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 10 0 0 0
Ukrainian 95 90 0 0 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 695 660 0 35 0
Afrikaans 10 10 0 0 0
Danish 40 40 0 0 0
Dutch 135 130 0 10 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 475 460 0 20 0
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 15 15 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 120 110 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages 56,735 45,485 20 850 10,380
Indo-Aryan languages 55,770 44,640 20 825 10,290
Bengali 175 165 0 5 5
Gujarati 610 540 0 15 60
Hindi 4,815 4,425 0 75 315
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 20 20 0 5 0
Marathi 10 10 0 0 0
Nepali 90 85 0 0 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 47,400 36,995 15 660 9,725
Sindhi 90 80 0 10 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 145 130 0 5 5
Urdu 2,395 2,180 0 50 165
Iranian languages 940 825 0 25 90
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0
Pashto 290 250 0 5 35
Persian (Farsi) 640 570 0 15 55
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 5
Italic (Romance) languages 1,880 1,585 15 180 105
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 170 150 0 15 0
Portuguese 225 195 0 15 20
Romanian 95 80 5 15 5
Spanish 1,380 1,155 10 130 80
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 165 155 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 165 115 0 5 50
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 210 170 0 35 5
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 5 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 50 35 0 15 5
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 10 15 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 30 5 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 15 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,515 2,025 0 50 435
Chinese languages 2,465 1,985 0 50 430
Cantonese 850 685 0 25 140
Hakka 20 20 0 0 0
Mandarin 1,350 1,085 0 15 245
Min Dong 0 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 145 115 0 0 30
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 10 0 0 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 75 65 0 5 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 50 45 0 0 10
Burmese 20 20 0 0 5
Karenic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 65 60 0 0 0
Lao 25 25 0 0 0
Thai 35 35 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 85 80 0 0 5
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 70 65 0 0 5
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 155 140 0 10 0
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0
Finnish 25 25 0 0 0
Hungarian 125 115 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Multiple responses 6,165 5,710 10 410 45
English and French 170 60 0 105 0
English and non-official language 5,885 5,625 5 210 40
French and non-official language 40 10 0 25 0
English, French and non-official language 75 15 0 60 0

Symbol(s)

Symbol ..

not available for a specific reference period

..

Symbol ...

not applicable

...

Symbol x

suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

x

Symbol F

too unreliable to be published

F

Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

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

Return to footnote 1 referrer

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016059.

Date modified: