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 Ajax, T
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 1 119,210 108,185 110 9,115 1,800
Single responses 114,690 104,455 105 8,355 1,785
Official languages 84,535 77,510 70 6,940 25
English 83,025 77,440 0 5,555 25
French 1,510 65 65 1,380 0
Non-official languages 30,150 26,945 40 1,415 1,760
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 0 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 0 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 5 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 5 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 30,150 26,940 35 1,410 1,760
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,825 1,555 5 195 65
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 80 70 0 5 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 15 15 0 0 0
Somali 60 55 0 5 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,750 1,485 10 190 65
Amharic 90 80 0 5 0
Arabic 1,510 1,265 5 180 60
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 20 15 0 0 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 60 55 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 10 0 0 0
Maltese 30 30 0 0 0
Tigrigna 30 25 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 305 260 0 10 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 0 0
Vietnamese 290 250 5 10 25
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,130 3,055 0 50 25
Bikol 5 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 80 85 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 20 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 70 0 0 5
Malagasy 5 0 0 0 0
Malay 65 60 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 40 40 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 2,840 2,775 0 45 25
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages 125 75 5 50 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 65 15 0 40 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 65 55 5 0 0
Dravidian languages 5,005 4,480 5 155 375
Kannada 20 20 0 0 0
Malayalam 300 280 0 15 0
Tamil 4,530 4,025 5 140 360
Telugu 160 150 0 0 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 16,595 14,905 10 815 860
Albanian 55 55 0 0 5
Armenian 100 85 0 10 0
Balto-Slavic languages 1,540 1,390 0 95 55
Baltic languages 30 25 0 10 0
Latvian 25 20 0 5 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0 0
Slavic languages 1,505 1,365 0 90 50
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 5 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 30 25 0 0 0
Croatian 60 60 0 5 0
Czech 50 40 0 5 0
Macedonian 425 395 0 5 25
Polish 465 410 0 40 10
Russian 245 210 0 25 15
Serbian 85 80 0 5 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 35 35 0 0 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 20 0 0 0
Ukrainian 90 75 0 10 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 770 715 0 50 0
Afrikaans 15 10 0 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0 0
Dutch 160 150 0 10 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 535 500 0 40 0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 15 15 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 520 480 0 25 20
Indo-Iranian languages 10,525 9,485 5 385 650
Indo-Aryan languages 8,160 7,480 0 245 430
Bengali 700 645 0 30 20
Gujarati 1,105 995 0 25 85
Hindi 710 655 0 30 25
Kashmiri 0 5 0 0 0
Konkani 35 35 0 0 0
Marathi 50 45 0 5 0
Nepali 25 25 0 5 5
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,050 915 0 15 120
Sindhi 110 100 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 315 295 0 10 10
Urdu 4,050 3,750 0 125 170
Iranian languages 2,355 1,990 0 135 220
Kurdish 20 15 0 0 0
Pashto 265 225 0 10 25
Persian (Farsi) 2,070 1,745 5 130 195
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,065 2,685 5 245 135
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 850 755 0 60 35
Portuguese 660 595 0 40 25
Romanian 320 250 0 60 10
Spanish 1,235 1,080 5 90 65
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Japanese 50 35 0 0 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 100 95 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 440 360 5 60 5
Akan (Twi) 115 110 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 25 25 0 0 0
Ewe 10 10 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 10 0 0 10 0
Ga 10 10 0 5 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 25 20 0 0 0
Lingala 15 0 5 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 10 0 0 10 0
Shona 35 30 0 0 0
Swahili 60 50 0 5 0
Wolof 5 0 5 5 0
Yoruba 70 65 0 5 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 35 0 10 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 5 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 20 10 0 0 10
American Sign Language 10 5 0 0 0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 2,175 1,765 0 55 355
Chinese languages 2,165 1,755 0 55 355
Cantonese 945 765 0 30 150
Hakka 65 55 0 5 10
Mandarin 1,035 835 0 15 185
Min Dong 5 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 60 45 0 5 10
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 20 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 25 0 5 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 15 15 0 0 5
Burmese 5 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 25 25 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0 0
Thai 15 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 70 65 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 0 5 0 0 0
Turkish 55 55 0 5 0
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 255 230 0 15 5
Estonian 30 25 0 5 0
Finnish 40 35 0 5 0
Hungarian 180 165 0 10 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 4,520 3,735 5 770 15
English and French 390 80 0 315 0
English and non-official language 3,840 3,610 0 215 15
French and non-official language 130 10 5 110 0
English, French and non-official language 155 30 0 125 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) – Ajax, T

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.4%.
  • 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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