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 Richmond, 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 1 197,255 165,465 60 9,615 22,110
Single responses 189,360 158,385 60 8,885 22,035
Official languages 66,365 60,215 20 5,940 195
English 65,350 60,100 5 5,050 190
French 1,015 115 15 885 0
Non-official languages 122,995 98,170 40 2,945 21,840
Aboriginal languages 20 20 0 0 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 5 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 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 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 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 5 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 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 5 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 5 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 122,975 98,150 40 2,940 21,835
Afro-Asiatic languages 1,745 1,455 0 160 125
Berber languages 15 5 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 115 110 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0
Somali 110 105 0 0 5
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 1,620 1,340 5 155 120
Amharic 40 35 0 0 5
Arabic 1,210 970 5 130 105
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 40 35 0 5 5
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 15 10 0 0 5
Harari 10 10 0 0 5
Hebrew 270 245 0 25 5
Maltese 5 5 0 0 0
Tigrigna 25 20 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 5 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5
Austro-Asiatic languages 830 700 0 40 100
Khmer (Cambodian) 35 30 0 5 5
Vietnamese 800 670 0 30 95
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 9,305 9,140 5 75 90
Bikol 75 70 0 0 0
Cebuano 330 320 0 5 5
Fijian 30 25 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 115 115 0 0 0
Ilocano 385 375 0 5 10
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 375 355 0 5 15
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 135 130 0 0 0
Pangasinan 15 10 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 7,775 7,650 5 60 60
Waray-Waray 15 20 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 60 60 0 0 5
Creole languages 35 10 0 25 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 5 0
Creole, n.o.s. 20 0 0 20 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 380 365 0 10 10
Kannada 15 15 0 0 0
Malayalam 105 100 0 0 0
Tamil 220 205 0 5 10
Telugu 40 40 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 17,930 15,725 10 1,045 1,155
Albanian 40 40 0 0 0
Armenian 70 50 0 20 0
Balto-Slavic languages 3,490 3,085 5 210 195
Baltic languages 30 35 0 0 0
Latvian 20 20 0 0 0
Lithuanian 10 15 0 0 0
Slavic languages 3,460 3,050 0 205 195
Belarusan 5 5 0 0 0
Bosnian 35 35 0 0 0
Bulgarian 35 20 0 10 0
Croatian 220 205 0 5 5
Czech 145 135 0 10 0
Macedonian 15 15 0 5 0
Polish 340 315 0 20 5
Russian 2,025 1,740 0 130 155
Serbian 195 175 0 10 10
Serbo-Croatian 45 45 0 0 0
Slovak 55 55 0 5 0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 15 0 0 0
Ukrainian 305 285 0 10 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 1,955 1,770 0 170 5
Afrikaans 40 40 0 0 0
Danish 115 110 0 5 0
Dutch 375 330 0 40 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 1,305 1,195 0 105 10
Icelandic 5 5 0 5 0
Norwegian 35 30 0 5 0
Swedish 45 35 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 10 0 0 5 0
Yiddish 35 25 0 10 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0
Greek 265 245 5 15 0
Indo-Iranian languages 9,340 8,265 5 240 835
Indo-Aryan languages 8,225 7,280 0 180 760
Bengali 140 125 0 5 5
Gujarati 560 490 5 30 40
Hindi 1,100 1,040 0 20 40
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 20 20 0 0 0
Marathi 35 35 0 0 0
Nepali 40 35 0 5 0
Oriya (Odia) 5 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 5,245 4,500 0 90 655
Sindhi 180 165 0 10 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 65 65 0 0 0
Urdu 845 805 5 20 20
Iranian languages 1,080 950 0 60 70
Kurdish 25 25 0 0 0
Pashto 30 25 0 0 5
Persian (Farsi) 1,025 895 0 60 70
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 35 25 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 2,770 2,265 5 385 115
Catalan 5 0 0 5 0
Italian 315 240 0 70 5
Portuguese 390 345 0 30 15
Romanian 250 180 0 65 5
Spanish 1,805 1,500 5 210 95
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 2,155 1,925 0 40 190
Kartvelian languages 5 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 5
Korean 1,115 990 0 20 105
Mongolic languages 30 30 0 0 0
Mongolian 30 25 0 0 5
Niger-Congo languages 100 85 0 15 5
Akan (Twi) 10 5 0 0 0
Bamanankan 5 5 0 0 0
Edo 5 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 5 0 0 0 0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0
Lingala 5 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 0 0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0
Swahili 30 25 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 15 10 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 5 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages 40 15 0 5 20
American Sign Language 10 5 0 5 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 25 10 0 5 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 88,460 66,975 20 1,470 19,995
Chinese languages 88,310 66,835 20 1,475 19,990
Cantonese 43,295 33,765 5 620 8,900
Hakka 345 255 0 25 70
Mandarin 39,450 28,890 15 760 9,790
Min Dong 25 10 0 0 10
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 2,505 2,000 0 30 475
Wu (Shanghainese) 1,220 800 0 15 405
Chinese, n.o.s. 1,440 1,095 0 15 330
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 30 25 0 0 5
Tibeto-Burman languages 145 135 0 0 5
Burmese 115 105 0 0 10
Karenic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Tibetan 15 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 180 170 0 5 10
Lao 15 10 0 5 0
Thai 160 160 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 5 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 400 335 0 25 40
Azerbaijani 25 20 0 5 5
Turkish 360 300 0 20 35
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Uralic languages 250 225 0 15 5
Estonian 10 10 0 0 0
Finnish 65 65 0 5 0
Hungarian 170 150 0 15 5
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0 0
Multiple responses 7,895 7,080 0 735 75
English and French 260 50 0 205 0
English and non-official language 7,420 6,985 0 360 75
French and non-official language 95 15 0 75 5
English, French and non-official language 125 35 0 90 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) – Richmond, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.4%.
  • 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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