Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 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 and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Burlington, 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 1 181,150 163,415 95 16,150 1,490
Single responses 177,785 160,855 90 15,365 1,480
Official languages 145,575 132,425 50 13,075 25
English 142,610 132,220 5 10,360 25
French 2,970 205 50 2,715 0
Non-official languages 32,210 28,430 35 2,285 1,455
Aboriginal languages 10 10 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 5 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 32,200 28,425 40 2,285 1,455
Afro-Asiatic languages 2,480 2,030 5 305 140
Berber languages 10 0 0 10 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 10 0
Cushitic languages 30 25 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 5
Somali 20 20 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 2,430 2,000 10 290 135
Amharic 25 25 0 0 0
Arabic 2,205 1,790 5 280 130
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 50 50 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 25 25 0 0 5
Harari 5 5 0 0 0
Hebrew 30 25 0 5 0
Maltese 60 65 0 0 0
Tigrigna 10 5 0 5 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 370 320 5 30 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 20 15 0 0 5
Vietnamese 345 305 0 25 15
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,530 1,495 0 25 10
Bikol 0 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 55 55 0 0 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 90 85 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 35 35 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 25 30 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,285 1,260 0 25 5
Waray-Waray 0 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 25 15 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 5 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 10 5 0 10 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 425 405 0 20 10
Kannada 30 30 0 0 0
Malayalam 150 145 0 0 0
Tamil 190 170 0 10 10
Telugu 55 55 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 22,465 19,950 25 1,655 830
Albanian 155 140 0 5 15
Armenian 80 65 0 10 5
Balto-Slavic languages 6,890 6,305 5 410 170
Baltic languages 200 180 0 20 0
Latvian 75 70 0 10 0
Lithuanian 125 115 0 10 0
Slavic languages 6,690 6,125 5 395 165
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 95 80 0 10 5
Bulgarian 115 105 0 10 5
Croatian 875 830 5 30 15
Czech 255 240 0 10 0
Macedonian 150 140 0 10 5
Polish 2,365 2,195 0 125 50
Russian 865 765 0 55 45
Serbian 905 805 0 65 35
Serbo-Croatian 100 90 0 10 0
Slovak 205 190 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 150 135 0 15 0
Ukrainian 600 535 0 55 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 25 20 0 5 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 5 0
Welsh 15 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 3,075 2,855 0 215 5
Afrikaans 80 80 0 0 0
Danish 115 120 0 5 0
Dutch 1,080 1,020 0 55 0
Frisian 15 15 0 5 0
German 1,645 1,510 0 135 5
Icelandic 20 20 0 0 0
Norwegian 25 20 0 5 0
Swedish 55 50 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 20 0 5 0
Yiddish 10 15 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Greek 410 365 0 35 10
Indo-Iranian languages 5,135 4,530 0 230 370
Indo-Aryan languages 4,180 3,690 0 180 300
Bengali 160 145 0 15 10
Gujarati 520 455 0 25 35
Hindi 515 470 0 30 10
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 5
Konkani 15 15 0 0 0
Marathi 40 40 0 0 0
Nepali 45 45 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,795 1,535 0 60 200
Sindhi 40 30 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 115 115 0 0 0
Urdu 915 830 0 45 45
Iranian languages 915 800 0 45 65
Kurdish 20 20 0 0 0
Pashto 120 110 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 770 675 0 45 55
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 5 5
Italic (Romance) languages 6,695 5,675 20 745 255
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,845 1,590 5 220 30
Portuguese 1,545 1,340 0 105 95
Romanian 620 455 0 145 25
Spanish 2,680 2,285 10 275 110
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 140 120 0 5 0
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 0 5 0 0 0
Korean 795 690 0 35 65
Mongolic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 220 190 0 25 10
Akan (Twi) 60 55 0 0 5
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 10 10 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 5 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 0
Shona 25 25 0 0 0
Swahili 25 20 0 0 5
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 25 20 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 40 5 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 15 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0
Sign languages 35 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,520 2,095 0 95 325
Chinese languages 2,490 2,070 0 95 320
Cantonese 760 665 5 20 70
Hakka 10 10 0 5 0
Mandarin 1,550 1,265 0 60 230
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 75 60 0 10 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 30 25 0 5 5
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 45 0 0 10
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 25 25 0 0 5
Burmese 15 20 0 0 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 85 75 0 0 10
Lao 30 30 0 5 5
Thai 50 45 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 305 275 0 20 15
Azerbaijani 15 10 0 5 0
Turkish 290 255 0 20 10
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Uralic languages 785 720 0 55 10
Estonian 80 65 0 15 0
Finnish 85 80 0 5 0
Hungarian 620 575 0 35 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Multiple responses 3,365 2,555 5 790 10
English and French 470 75 0 395 0
English and non-official language 2,680 2,430 5 235 5
French and non-official language 95 25 0 65 5
English, French and non-official language 115 20 0 95 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) – Burlington, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.9%.
  • 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-X2016055.

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