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, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 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 , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in New Westminster, 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 70,235 62,930 40 5,425 1,830
Single responses 68,085 61,095 35 5,130 1,825
Official languages 43,715 39,670 25 4,005 20
English 42,925 39,585 0 3,325 15
French 790 90 25 680 0
Non-official languages 24,370 21,420 15 1,125 1,810
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 5 0
Algonquian languages 5 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 5 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 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 5 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 5 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 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 5 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 5 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. 5 10 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 24,345 21,400 15 1,120 1,810
Afro-Asiatic languages 820 655 5 90 70
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 40 35 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 30 30 0 0 0
Somali 10 10 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 770 610 0 85 70
Amharic 120 110 0 0 5
Arabic 555 405 0 85 60
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 0 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 10 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 85 75 0 5 5
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 295 265 0 10 20
Khmer (Cambodian) 10 10 0 5 0
Vietnamese 280 250 0 15 20
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 3,710 3,635 5 40 35
Bikol 10 5 0 0 0
Cebuano 175 175 0 0 0
Fijian 10 10 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 55 50 0 0 0
Ilocano 160 150 5 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 145 135 0 5 5
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 35 35 0 0 0
Pangasinan 20 15 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 3,075 3,025 0 30 20
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 25 25 0 0 0
Creole languages 30 20 0 10 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 5 0 0 5 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 145 140 0 0 5
Kannada 0 5 0 0 0
Malayalam 15 10 0 0 0
Tamil 105 95 0 0 0
Telugu 30 30 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 11,230 9,765 10 755 695
Albanian 75 75 0 5 0
Armenian 5 5 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,985 2,635 0 225 125
Baltic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 15 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,950 2,610 0 220 125
Belarusan 0 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 75 70 0 0 5
Bulgarian 225 175 0 35 10
Croatian 185 170 0 10 5
Czech 95 95 0 0 0
Macedonian 20 25 0 0 5
Polish 455 415 0 30 5
Russian 1,035 900 0 65 70
Serbian 460 390 0 55 15
Serbo-Croatian 95 85 0 5 10
Slovak 105 95 0 0 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 10 5 0 0 0
Ukrainian 180 170 0 5 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 10 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 985 890 0 95 5
Afrikaans 25 25 0 0 0
Danish 50 55 0 0 0
Dutch 240 210 0 30 0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 585 530 0 55 0
Icelandic 5 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 20 20 0 0 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 85 80 0 10 0
Indo-Iranian languages 4,275 3,720 0 95 455
Indo-Aryan languages 3,440 3,020 0 70 345
Bengali 130 115 0 5 5
Gujarati 145 135 0 0 0
Hindi 545 520 0 15 15
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 5 0 0 0 0
Marathi 15 10 0 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 10 10 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,410 2,050 5 30 320
Sindhi 15 15 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 50 40 0 0 0
Urdu 100 90 0 5 5
Iranian languages 830 690 0 25 110
Kurdish 60 45 0 0 15
Pashto 50 40 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 720 600 0 30 95
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,795 2,350 10 330 110
Catalan 0 5 0 0 0
Italian 325 300 0 25 0
Portuguese 465 425 0 30 15
Romanian 740 530 0 170 35
Spanish 1,265 1,090 5 110 60
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Japanese 495 470 0 10 20
Kartvelian languages 10 10 0 5 0
Georgian 15 10 0 5 0
Korean 1,240 1,055 0 25 160
Mongolic languages 10 15 0 0 0
Mongolian 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 160 140 0 15 0
Akan (Twi) 45 40 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 0 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 5 0
Swahili 25 20 0 0 0
Wolof 5 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 45 40 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 25 20 0 5 5
Dinka 10 5 0 5 5
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Sign languages 25 20 0 0 15
American Sign Language 15 10 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 15 5 0 0 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 5,560 4,660 0 130 770
Chinese languages 5,515 4,615 0 125 770
Cantonese 2,100 1,745 0 50 305
Hakka 40 35 0 0 5
Mandarin 3,015 2,530 0 65 420
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 140 120 0 0 15
Wu (Shanghainese) 80 60 0 5 15
Chinese, n.o.s. 130 115 0 10 5
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 45 45 0 0 0
Burmese 10 5 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 40 35 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 95 90 0 0 5
Lao 10 10 0 0 0
Thai 85 80 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 125 115 0 5 0
Azerbaijani 30 30 0 0 0
Turkish 75 70 0 0 0
Uyghur 10 5 0 0 0
Uzbek 10 10 5 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 340 305 0 20 10
Estonian 15 20 0 5 0
Finnish 60 55 0 5 0
Hungarian 260 235 0 20 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0 0
Multiple responses 2,150 1,840 0 295 5
English and French 150 40 0 115 0
English and non-official language 1,895 1,775 0 115 5
French and non-official language 55 15 5 40 0
English, French and non-official language 40 15 0 30 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) – New Westminster, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 5.0%.
  • 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-X2016054.

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