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 Markham, 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 1 327,785 275,715 120 19,155 32,795
Single responses 313,575 263,530 110 17,270 32,660
Official languages 116,080 105,245 45 10,520 275
English 114,200 105,145 5 8,780 265
French 1,885 105 40 1,735 5
Non-official languages 197,495 158,285 70 6,760 32,385
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 0 0 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 0 0 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 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 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 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 197,495 158,280 65 6,755 32,385
Afro-Asiatic languages 3,350 2,775 10 440 125
Berber languages 0 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 140 120 0 10 5
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0
Somali 130 110 0 10 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 3,210 2,650 10 435 120
Amharic 55 50 0 0 0
Arabic 2,715 2,195 10 400 115
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 15 15 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Harari 40 40 0 0 0
Hebrew 305 280 0 20 5
Maltese 40 40 0 5 0
Tigrigna 20 15 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 1,170 930 0 65 170
Khmer (Cambodian) 45 35 0 0 10
Vietnamese 1,125 895 5 60 165
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 5,510 5,405 0 55 50
Bikol 15 15 0 0 0
Cebuano 145 145 0 5 5
Fijian 5 5 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 70 70 0 5 0
Ilocano 215 210 0 0 5
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 335 320 0 5 10
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 40 40 0 0 0
Pangasinan 10 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 4,635 4,560 0 45 35
Waray-Waray 10 10 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Creole languages 215 50 5 155 5
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 165 20 10 135 5
Creole languages, n.i.e. 50 30 0 20 0
Dravidian languages 15,620 13,810 0 570 1,240
Kannada 85 85 0 5 0
Malayalam 575 535 0 25 20
Tamil 14,620 12,875 0 530 1,215
Telugu 335 310 0 15 5
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 5 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 44,775 39,630 20 2,585 2,540
Albanian 100 90 0 5 5
Armenian 1,355 1,070 0 220 60
Balto-Slavic languages 5,025 4,490 0 305 230
Baltic languages 115 100 0 15 0
Latvian 65 50 0 10 0
Lithuanian 50 45 0 5 0
Slavic languages 4,915 4,395 0 290 235
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 30 25 0 0 0
Bulgarian 160 135 0 10 5
Croatian 100 95 0 5 0
Czech 80 70 0 5 0
Macedonian 1,190 1,115 0 25 40
Polish 600 550 0 40 10
Russian 1,995 1,720 0 120 155
Serbian 345 295 0 30 15
Serbo-Croatian 35 30 0 5 5
Slovak 80 70 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 65 60 0 0 0
Ukrainian 230 210 0 15 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 15 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 5 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,455 1,320 0 135 5
Afrikaans 35 35 0 0 0
Danish 50 45 0 0 0
Dutch 245 220 0 25 0
Frisian 0 5 0 0 0
German 930 840 0 90 5
Icelandic 0 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 35 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 0 0
Yiddish 140 120 0 20 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 2,460 2,255 5 110 90
Indo-Iranian languages 26,935 24,055 10 1,090 1,780
Indo-Aryan languages 19,150 17,235 5 670 1,240
Bengali 655 600 0 35 20
Gujarati 4,510 3,920 0 140 450
Hindi 2,420 2,245 0 75 95
Kashmiri 15 15 0 0 5
Konkani 95 85 0 5 0
Marathi 230 205 0 15 5
Nepali 45 40 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 15 15 0 5 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 3,775 3,275 0 125 380
Sindhi 660 605 0 40 15
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 360 345 0 10 10
Urdu 6,380 5,895 0 220 265
Iranian languages 7,695 6,740 5 415 540
Kurdish 80 75 0 5 0
Pashto 330 280 0 15 35
Persian (Farsi) 7,280 6,380 5 400 505
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 85 80 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 7,435 6,345 5 720 360
Catalan 10 10 0 0 0
Italian 3,685 3,245 0 230 210
Portuguese 695 605 0 60 25
Romanian 945 700 0 210 35
Spanish 2,085 1,775 5 215 90
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Japanese 430 390 0 20 30
Kartvelian languages 40 30 0 0 5
Georgian 35 35 0 0 5
Korean 3,230 2,720 5 110 405
Mongolic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Mongolian 10 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 300 270 5 25 5
Akan (Twi) 65 65 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 10 10 0 0 0
Ewe 0 5 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 10 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 35 35 0 0 0
Lingala 10 0 0 10 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 5 0 5 0
Shona 15 10 0 0 0
Swahili 80 75 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 30 30 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 40 35 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 5 5 0 0 5
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 55 10 0 0 40
American Sign Language 5 5 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 50 10 0 0 40
Sino-Tibetan languages 121,410 91,030 20 2,645 27,715
Chinese languages 121,315 90,940 20 2,640 27,715
Cantonese 72,615 55,780 10 1,625 15,205
Hakka 2,235 1,890 0 35 310
Mandarin 41,795 30,110 15 910 10,760
Min Dong 225 90 0 0 135
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 2,000 1,265 0 25 710
Wu (Shanghainese) 940 655 0 15 275
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,480 1,140 0 30 315
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 20 15 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 95 90 0 0 5
Burmese 85 80 0 0 5
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Tibetan 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 160 140 0 10 10
Lao 80 75 0 5 5
Thai 70 65 0 5 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 5 0 0 5
Turkic languages 485 415 0 40 35
Azerbaijani 95 75 0 15 10
Turkish 360 310 0 25 25
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 10 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Uralic languages 700 650 0 45 10
Estonian 85 75 0 5 0
Finnish 110 105 0 5 0
Hungarian 515 470 0 35 10
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 5 0
Multiple responses 14,210 12,185 10 1,880 130
English and French 595 85 0 500 0
English and non-official language 12,985 11,975 0 885 125
French and non-official language 245 60 10 170 5
English, French and non-official language 395 65 0 330 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) – Markham, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 2.1%.
  • 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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