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 Oakville, 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 1 192,725 166,370 150 22,850 3,355
Single responses 186,740 161,790 140 21,470 3,335
Official languages 126,900 110,645 90 16,135 30
English 123,565 110,455 5 13,070 30
French 3,335 185 85 3,065 0
Non-official languages 59,840 51,150 55 5,330 3,305
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 5 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 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 5 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 5 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 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 5 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 59,830 51,145 55 5,335 3,310
Afro-Asiatic languages 5,085 4,100 10 820 150
Berber languages 10 5 0 10 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 55 40 0 15 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 45 30 0 15 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 5,010 4,050 10 800 150
Amharic 25 20 0 5 0
Arabic 4,630 3,720 10 775 130
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 110 100 0 5 10
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 70 60 0 0 15
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 10 5
Maltese 85 80 0 5 0
Tigrigna 15 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 480 400 5 50 30
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 475 395 5 50 30
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 2,245 2,190 0 45 20
Bikol 5 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 85 80 0 5 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 15 15 0 0 0
Ilocano 75 75 0 5 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 115 100 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 20 20 0 0 0
Pangasinan 5 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,905 1,860 0 30 10
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Creole languages 45 15 0 30 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 30 5 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 760 685 0 50 20
Kannada 40 35 0 5 0
Malayalam 165 145 0 15 5
Tamil 425 380 0 30 15
Telugu 125 115 0 10 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 36,905 31,795 25 3,575 1,510
Albanian 285 230 0 30 30
Armenian 180 130 0 40 5
Balto-Slavic languages 11,390 10,030 5 950 405
Baltic languages 260 240 0 20 0
Latvian 80 70 0 5 0
Lithuanian 180 165 0 15 0
Slavic languages 11,125 9,790 5 930 400
Belarusan 10 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 100 90 0 10 5
Bulgarian 290 240 0 40 10
Croatian 1,835 1,700 0 95 35
Czech 245 225 0 15 5
Macedonian 400 345 0 50 5
Polish 3,355 3,025 0 230 105
Russian 1,975 1,610 0 225 135
Serbian 1,390 1,190 5 130 70
Serbo-Croatian 135 115 0 10 10
Slovak 385 340 0 45 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 150 140 0 10 0
Ukrainian 835 745 0 70 20
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 0
Celtic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 10 0 0 0
Welsh 10 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 2,670 2,285 0 370 10
Afrikaans 205 195 0 15 0
Danish 105 95 0 10 0
Dutch 575 485 0 85 5
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0
German 1,645 1,400 0 230 10
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 5 0
Swedish 75 65 0 10 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 30 10 0 20 0
Yiddish 10 5 0 5 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Greek 620 510 0 95 20
Indo-Iranian languages 9,670 8,655 5 550 460
Indo-Aryan languages 7,975 7,205 5 420 345
Bengali 325 295 0 25 10
Gujarati 685 605 0 40 40
Hindi 1,205 1,115 0 65 20
Kashmiri 25 25 0 0 0
Konkani 80 70 0 5 5
Marathi 80 80 0 0 0
Nepali 15 15 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 20 20 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,375 2,070 5 105 200
Sindhi 95 85 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 230 215 0 5 0
Urdu 2,835 2,605 0 155 75
Iranian languages 1,660 1,415 5 130 110
Kurdish 45 25 0 0 15
Pashto 285 255 0 10 25
Persian (Farsi) 1,330 1,135 0 120 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Italic (Romance) languages 12,065 9,935 10 1,535 585
Catalan 10 5 0 5 0
Italian 3,365 2,805 5 450 110
Portuguese 3,365 2,870 5 210 280
Romanian 1,065 725 5 280 55
Spanish 4,255 3,525 5 585 140
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 5 0
Japanese 205 185 0 15 5
Kartvelian languages 0 5 0 0 0
Georgian 5 5 0 0 0
Korean 2,250 1,970 0 115 170
Mongolic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 310 285 0 25 0
Akan (Twi) 90 85 0 0 0
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 5 0
Ga 5 0 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 30 30 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 15 20 0 0 0
Swahili 20 15 5 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 85 80 0 5 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 5 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 5 0
Sign languages 40 20 0 0 20
American Sign Language 25 15 0 0 10
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 5 0 5 10
Sino-Tibetan languages 10,060 8,255 5 465 1,335
Chinese languages 10,015 8,220 5 460 1,330
Cantonese 1,935 1,705 5 95 135
Hakka 60 40 0 5 10
Mandarin 7,510 6,045 5 355 1,110
Min Dong 5 5 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 190 160 0 0 25
Wu (Shanghainese) 135 105 0 5 30
Chinese, n.o.s. 180 150 0 5 20
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 40 35 0 5 5
Burmese 15 10 0 0 0
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 15 10 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages 80 75 0 5 0
Lao 15 15 0 0 0
Thai 65 60 0 5 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 555 470 0 70 20
Azerbaijani 20 20 0 0 5
Turkish 505 425 0 65 15
Uyghur 10 10 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 5 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Uralic languages 770 680 5 70 25
Estonian 65 55 0 5 0
Finnish 105 95 0 10 0
Hungarian 605 525 0 55 25
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 5,985 4,580 10 1,385 20
English and French 605 80 0 525 0
English and non-official language 4,935 4,410 0 510 20
French and non-official language 210 45 5 155 0
English, French and non-official language 235 40 0 200 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) – Oakville, T

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.6%.
  • 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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