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 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 first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Ottawa West--Nepean / Ottawa-Ouest--Nepean
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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 3 109,635 96,435 8,850 2,410 1,940 10,055 9.2
Single responses 101,930 90,285 7,905 1,805 1,940 8,810 8.6
Official languages 86,500 78,865 7,630 0 0 7,630 8.8
English 82,545 78,725 3,815 0 0 3,815 4.6
French 3,955 140 3,815 0 0 3,815 96.5
Non-official languages 15,430 11,415 275 1,805 1,940 1,175 7.6
Aboriginal languages 35 40 0 5 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 20 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 5 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 5 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 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 15,395 11,380 275 1,800 1,940 1,175 7.6
Afro-Asiatic languages 3,535 2,340 110 555 535 385 10.9
Berber languages 50 15 5 30 5 15 30.0
Kabyle 30 10 5 15 5 10 33.3
Berber languages, n.i.e. 15 0 0 15 5 5 33.3
Cushitic languages 650 430 35 110 70 95 14.6
Bilen 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oromo 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 630 415 40 105 70 95 15.1
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 2,840 1,895 65 420 460 270 9.5
Amharic 175 150 0 5 20 5 2.9
Arabic 2,535 1,645 65 405 425 265 10.5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 40 35 0 5 0 0 0.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 75 55 0 5 10 0 0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages 770 545 15 85 120 55 7.1
Khmer (Cambodian) 115 85 5 5 20 5 4.3
Vietnamese 660 460 15 80 100 55 8.3
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 795 775 0 10 15 5 0.6
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 45 40 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 75 75 0 0 5 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 630 610 0 5 10 5 0.8
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 150 25 55 70 5 85 56.7
Haitian Creole 25 5 15 10 0 15 60.0
Creole, n.o.s. 115 15 45 55 5 70 60.9
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages 330 285 0 20 35 10 3.0
Kannada 25 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Malayalam 75 65 0 0 5 0 0.0
Tamil 170 140 0 15 20 10 5.9
Telugu 60 60 0 5 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 6,050 4,620 40 805 580 445 7.4
Albanian 50 45 0 5 0 5 10.0
Armenian 40 20 0 15 5 5 12.5
Balto-Slavic languages 1,480 1,065 5 280 125 150 10.1
Baltic languages 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Latvian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lithuanian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavic languages 1,465 1,055 5 280 125 145 9.9
Belarusan 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Bosnian 45 40 0 5 5 5 11.1
Bulgarian 75 55 0 15 0 10 13.3
Croatian 30 25 0 5 0 0 0.0
Czech 30 30 0 5 0 5 16.7
Macedonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Polish 270 200 5 50 20 25 9.3
Russian 670 480 10 110 70 60 9.0
Serbian 145 95 0 35 15 20 13.8
Serbo-Croatian 45 30 0 10 5 5 11.1
Slovak 20 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 115 80 0 30 5 15 13.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 130 105 0 25 0 10 7.7
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dutch 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 95 75 0 15 0 5 5.3
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 5 0 0 5 0 0 0.0
Swedish 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 15 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 90 85 0 5 5 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,210 1,885 0 110 205 55 2.5
Indo-Aryan languages 1,305 1,165 0 60 85 30 2.3
Bengali 300 260 0 15 25 5 1.7
Gujarati 130 120 0 0 10 0 0.0
Hindi 235 215 5 10 15 5 2.1
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Marathi 20 15 0 0 0 5 25.0
Nepali 85 80 0 5 0 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 225 195 0 10 15 0 0.0
Sindhi 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 30 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 280 245 0 15 20 10 3.6
Iranian languages 890 710 0 55 125 30 3.4
Kurdish 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pashto 160 120 0 10 30 5 3.1
Persian (Farsi) 675 540 0 45 90 25 3.7
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,050 1,420 35 365 235 215 10.5
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 860 645 5 65 135 40 4.7
Portuguese 155 110 0 30 15 15 9.7
Romanian 235 85 0 115 30 60 25.5
Spanish 810 575 20 155 55 95 11.7
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 30 30 0 5 5 0 0.0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 125 110 0 5 10 0 0.0
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages 210 80 40 80 5 85 40.5
Akan (Twi) 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 5 0 5 0 0 10 100.0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ganda 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 10 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Lingala 10 0 0 10 0 5 50.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 40 0 15 25 0 25 62.5
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 30 5 15 15 0 20 66.7
Shona 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swahili 65 30 10 25 0 20 30.8
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Nilo-Saharan languages 45 35 0 5 5 5 11.1
Dinka 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sign languages 45 25 0 0 20 5 11.1
American Sign Language 20 10 0 5 5 5 25.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 15 0 0 10 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,010 2,295 10 140 565 80 2.7
Chinese languages 2,880 2,180 5 140 550 75 2.6
Cantonese 925 620 0 35 275 20 2.2
Hakka 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 1,750 1,415 5 90 235 50 2.9
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 60 40 10 5 10 10 16.7
Wu (Shanghainese) 40 20 0 0 15 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 100 75 0 0 15 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 130 110 0 0 15 0 0.0
Burmese 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Karenic languages 105 85 0 0 15 0 0.0
Tibetan 0 0 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages 30 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Lao 10 10 0 5 0 0 0.0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 140 110 0 15 20 10 7.1
Azerbaijani 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkish 125 95 0 15 15 10 8.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uralic languages 105 85 0 10 10 5 4.8
Estonian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hungarian 100 75 0 10 15 5 5.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 7,705 6,150 945 610 0 1,245 16.2
English and French 1,060 175 520 365 0 705 66.5
English and non-official language 5,890 5,870 20 0 0 20 0.3
French and non-official language 305 10 295 0 0 300 98.4
English, French and non-official language 450 100 110 240 0 225 50.0

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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-X2016073.

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