Data tables, 2016 Census

First Official Language Spoken (7), Language Spoken Most Often at Home (269), 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 first official language spoken , language spoken most often at home , age and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Whitby, T
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Language spoken most often at home (269) First official language spoken (7)
Total - First official language spoken English French English and French Neither English nor French Official language minority (number)Footnote 1 Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 2
Total - Language spoken most often at homeFootnote 3 127,525 123,885 2,070 525 1,040 2,330 1.8
Single responses 122,765 119,435 1,925 365 1,040 2,105 1.7
Official languages 114,650 112,750 1,905 0 0 1,905 1.7
English 113,805 112,720 1,085 0 0 1,090 1.0
French 845 30 815 0 0 815 96.4
Non-official languages 8,115 6,685 20 370 1,040 205 2.5
Aboriginal languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Moose Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Plains Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swampy Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Woods Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Eastern Algonquian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ojibway 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dene 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Michif 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Comox 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Straits 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Non-Aboriginal languages 8,120 6,690 20 370 1,040 205 2.5
Afro-Asiatic languages 335 280 5 20 35 15 4.5
Berber languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kabyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 320 265 0 25 30 15 4.7
Amharic 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Arabic 270 215 5 20 25 15 5.6
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Harari 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Maltese 25 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 125 95 5 5 25 5 4.0
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 125 95 0 5 25 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 300 290 0 0 10 0 0.0
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ilocano 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malay 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 270 260 0 0 10 0 0.0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole languages 25 5 0 10 0 10 40.0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 10 0 0 5 0 5 50.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 5 0 5 33.3
Dravidian languages 690 610 0 25 50 15 2.2
Kannada 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malayalam 50 50 0 5 0 5 10.0
Tamil 580 505 0 25 45 10 1.7
Telugu 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Indo-European languages 4,845 4,035 5 255 550 135 2.8
Albanian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Armenian 35 30 0 0 0 5 14.3
Balto-Slavic languages 785 675 5 45 60 25 3.2
Baltic languages 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages 775 665 5 50 60 25 3.2
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bulgarian 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Croatian 40 40 0 0 0 0 0.0
Czech 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Macedonian 110 95 0 5 10 0 0.0
Polish 280 235 5 20 25 10 3.6
Russian 130 110 0 10 10 5 3.8
Serbian 90 70 0 10 10 5 5.6
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 20 20 0 5 0 5 25.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 15 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 5 0 0.0
Celtic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Scottish Gaelic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Welsh 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages 140 125 0 10 0 5 3.6
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 45 40 0 10 5 5 11.1
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
German 75 70 0 5 0 0 0.0
Icelandic 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Norwegian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Greek 155 135 0 5 20 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 2,300 2,015 0 50 240 25 1.1
Indo-Aryan languages 1,630 1,465 0 35 135 15 0.9
Bengali 140 135 0 0 5 0 0.0
Gujarati 200 170 0 5 25 0 0.0
Hindi 110 95 0 5 10 0 0.0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Marathi 25 25 0 5 5 0 0.0
Nepali 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 210 180 0 0 35 0 0.0
Sindhi 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 30 25 0 0 0 5 16.7
Urdu 880 805 0 15 60 10 1.1
Iranian languages 660 545 0 15 105 10 1.5
Kurdish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 50 45 0 0 10 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 610 500 0 15 95 5 0.8
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Italic (Romance) languages 1,415 1,040 5 140 225 70 4.9
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 355 280 5 5 65 5 1.4
Portuguese 205 170 0 15 20 10 4.9
Romanian 195 110 0 60 15 30 15.4
Spanish 660 475 0 60 120 30 4.5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 40 35 0 5 0 5 12.5
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Korean 110 95 0 5 5 0 0.0
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages 60 30 10 15 5 15 25.0
Akan (Twi) 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Edo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ga 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Ganda 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 10 0 0 5 0 5 50.0
Rundi (Kirundi) 10 0 5 5 0 10 100.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 5 0 0 5 5 5 100.0
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dinka 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages 40 35 0 0 5 0 0.0
American Sign Language 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 35 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 1,365 1,045 5 25 295 10 0.7
Chinese languages 1,365 1,045 0 25 295 15 1.1
Cantonese 430 325 0 5 100 5 1.2
Hakka 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 860 660 0 15 180 10 1.2
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 5 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 20 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 40 30 0 0 5 0 0.0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Burmese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Karenic languages 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibetan 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 70 20 0 0 50 0 0.0
Lao 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thai 70 15 0 0 50 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 30 20 0 0 0 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 25 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Uralic languages 90 85 0 0 5 5 5.6
Estonian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Finnish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 85 80 0 0 5 0 0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Multiple responses 4,760 4,455 150 160 0 225 4.7
English and French 290 105 95 100 0 145 50.0
English and non-official language 4,315 4,300 15 0 0 15 0.3
French and non-official language 20 5 15 0 0 15 75.0
English, French and non-official language 130 45 25 65 0 55 42.3

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 2

The official language minority population of Quebec includes all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. The official language minority population of the country overall and of every province and territory other than Quebec includes individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 3

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016070.

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