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 Vaughan, 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 1 304,640 272,895 165 19,125 12,450
Single responses 292,195 262,120 145 17,535 12,395
Official languages 139,610 129,460 45 9,985 120
English 137,725 129,285 5 8,315 115
French 1,885 170 40 1,670 5
Non-official languages 152,590 132,665 100 7,545 12,280
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 0 0 0
Blackfoot 0 5 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 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 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 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 152,575 132,650 100 7,550 12,280
Afro-Asiatic languages 10,115 9,000 5 680 425
Berber languages 5 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 90 90 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 10 5 0 0 0
Somali 85 80 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 10,015 8,910 5 680 425
Amharic 100 95 0 5 5
Arabic 2,960 2,470 5 350 130
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 1,540 1,345 0 15 180
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 480 455 0 5 25
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 4,530 4,155 0 300 80
Maltese 195 190 0 0 0
Tigrigna 110 105 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 105 95 0 5 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 4,725 3,915 0 120 680
Khmer (Cambodian) 420 340 0 15 70
Vietnamese 4,300 3,575 0 110 610
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,305 5,195 5 55 50
Bikol 5 10 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 75 0 5 0
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 40 40 0 0 5
Ilocano 380 370 0 0 10
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 140 140 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 15 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,600 4,515 0 50 35
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Creole languages 85 30 0 55 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 60 10 0 50 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 3,865 3,465 0 130 270
Kannada 45 40 0 5 0
Malayalam 380 360 0 10 15
Tamil 3,300 2,930 0 110 250
Telugu 135 130 0 5 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 104,200 90,695 75 5,715 7,720
Albanian 930 800 0 45 80
Armenian 665 540 5 75 45
Balto-Slavic languages 25,665 22,330 5 1,605 1,720
Baltic languages 175 165 0 5 0
Latvian 40 45 0 5 0
Lithuanian 130 125 0 0 0
Slavic languages 25,495 22,160 10 1,605 1,720
Belarusan 30 25 0 5 0
Bosnian 65 60 0 0 5
Bulgarian 290 255 0 25 10
Croatian 550 500 0 30 15
Czech 85 85 0 0 0
Macedonian 360 335 0 15 10
Polish 1,595 1,480 0 70 40
Russian 20,685 17,780 5 1,350 1,545
Serbian 550 485 0 40 20
Serbo-Croatian 60 55 0 5 0
Slovak 115 105 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 170 160 0 10 5
Ukrainian 935 820 0 35 75
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 0 0 0 0
Welsh 5 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,555 1,375 0 165 10
Afrikaans 20 25 0 0 0
Danish 25 20 0 0 0
Dutch 150 125 0 20 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 625 560 0 70 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 10 0 0 0
Swedish 10 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0
Yiddish 705 620 0 75 15
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 1,565 1,465 0 60 45
Indo-Iranian languages 22,220 19,605 10 905 1,695
Indo-Aryan languages 15,095 13,290 5 555 1,250
Bengali 475 440 0 25 10
Gujarati 2,620 2,305 0 80 235
Hindi 1,565 1,455 0 60 50
Kashmiri 5 5 0 0 5
Konkani 20 20 0 0 0
Marathi 115 110 0 0 0
Nepali 15 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 15 15 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 4,760 4,040 5 145 575
Sindhi 150 140 0 10 5
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 225 215 0 10 0
Urdu 5,120 4,530 0 225 365
Iranian languages 7,070 6,265 10 350 445
Kurdish 340 305 0 0 30
Pashto 125 115 0 5 10
Persian (Farsi) 6,605 5,850 10 340 410
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 55 45 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 51,600 44,580 50 2,850 4,115
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 37,405 32,530 25 1,560 3,285
Portuguese 4,350 3,860 10 195 290
Romanian 2,465 1,805 10 500 155
Spanish 7,365 6,380 5 590 390
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0
Japanese 155 140 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 105 90 0 0 15
Georgian 105 90 0 5 10
Korean 4,170 3,620 0 125 425
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 575 535 0 35 5
Akan (Twi) 245 235 0 15 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 15 20 0 0 0
Ewe 15 10 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 15 10 0 0 0
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0
Igbo 85 80 0 10 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 5 0 0 0
Shona 10 10 0 0 0
Swahili 35 30 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 105 100 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 45 15 0 0 30
American Sign Language 0 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 40 10 0 0 30
Sino-Tibetan languages 16,510 13,565 5 435 2,500
Chinese languages 16,460 13,515 5 440 2,500
Cantonese 6,305 5,195 0 175 940
Hakka 250 205 0 20 25
Mandarin 8,860 7,265 5 210 1,385
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 5
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 580 480 0 20 75
Wu (Shanghainese) 175 125 0 10 40
Chinese, n.o.s. 275 240 0 10 30
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 50 45 0 0 5
Burmese 40 35 0 0 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 240 205 0 20 20
Lao 195 155 0 15 20
Thai 50 45 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages 1,455 1,270 0 75 110
Azerbaijani 140 110 0 10 15
Turkish 1,240 1,095 0 55 95
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 45 35 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Uralic languages 980 870 0 80 25
Estonian 25 20 0 5 0
Finnish 50 45 0 0 0
Hungarian 910 800 0 80 20
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 0
Multiple responses 12,445 10,775 25 1,590 55
English and French 470 115 0 355 0
English and non-official language 11,315 10,510 5 750 50
French and non-official language 315 75 15 220 5
English, French and non-official language 345 75 5 270 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) – Vaughan, CY

  • 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-X2016055.

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