Census Profile, 2016 Census
Vancouver [Census metropolitan area], British Columbia and British Columbia [Province]

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	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Percentages (unless otherwise specified)
Knowledge of official languagesUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - Knowledge of official languages for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data^{Census data footnote 15}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
English only	87.3	88.8	85.9	89.8	90.9	88.7
French only	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
English and French	7.1	6.4	7.6	6.8	6.2	7.4
Neither English nor French	5.6	4.7	6.4	3.3	2.8	3.8
First official language spokenUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - First official language spoken for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data^{Census data footnote 16}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
English	92.8	93.7	92.0	95.1	95.6	94.6
French	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.2
English and French	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4
Neither English nor French	5.5	4.6	6.4	3.3	2.8	3.8
Official language minority (number)^{Census data footnote 17}	...	...	...	...	...	...
Official language minority (percentage)^{Census data footnote 17}	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4
Mother tongueUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - Mother tongue for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data^{Census data footnote 18}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single responses	96.8	96.8	96.8	97.8	97.8	97.7
Official languages	55.0	57.0	53.1	70.2	71.6	68.8
English	54.0	55.9	52.1	68.9	70.3	67.6
French	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.2
Non-official languages	41.8	39.9	43.7	27.6	26.2	28.9
Aboriginal languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Blackfoot	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree-Montagnais languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Atikamekw	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Montagnais (Innu)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Moose Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Naskapi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Plains Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swampy Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Woods Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malecite	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mi'kmaq	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oji-Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1
Northern Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Beaver	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Carrier	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chilcotin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dene	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gwich'in	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sekani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey-Hare languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
North Slavey (Hare)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
South Slavey	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kaska (Nahani)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tutchone languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuktitut	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cayuga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mohawk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oneida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kutenai	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Michif	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Comox	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Halkomelem	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lillooet	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Okanagan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Squamish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Straits	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dakota	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Stoney	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tlingit	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nisga'a	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haisla	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Heiltsuk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-Aboriginal languages	41.8	39.8	43.6	27.4	26.0	28.7
Afro-Asiatic languages	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.5
Berber languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kabyle	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bilen	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oromo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Somali	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.5
Amharic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Arabic	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Harari	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hebrew	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Maltese	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tigrigna	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages	1.0	0.9	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.7
Khmer (Cambodian)	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vietnamese	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.6	0.6	0.6
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages	3.4	2.8	3.9	2.1	1.7	2.5
Bikol	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cebuano	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Fijian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hiligaynon	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ilocano	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Malagasy	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malay	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pangasinan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	2.7	2.3	3.2	1.7	1.4	2.0
Waray-Waray	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haitian Creole	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Kannada	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malayalam	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Tamil	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Telugu	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hmong-Mien languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Indo-European languages	17.1	17.1	17.1	12.8	12.7	12.9
Albanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Armenian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Balto-Slavic languages	2.4	2.3	2.5	1.8	1.7	1.9
Baltic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Latvian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lithuanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavic languages	2.3	2.2	2.4	1.8	1.7	1.9
Belarusan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bosnian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bulgarian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Croatian	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Czech	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Macedonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Polish	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4
Russian	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.6
Serbian	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Serbo-Croatian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slovak	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Slovene (Slovenian)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ukrainian	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Scottish Gaelic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Welsh	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages	1.6	1.5	1.6	2.2	2.1	2.3
Afrikaans	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Danish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Dutch	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.5
Frisian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
German	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.4	1.5
Icelandic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Norwegian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swedish	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
Vlaams (Flemish)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yiddish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Greek	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Indo-Iranian languages	9.9	10.1	9.8	6.5	6.6	6.4
Indo-Aryan languages	8.1	8.2	8.0	5.5	5.5	5.4
Bengali	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Gujarati	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.2
Hindi	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.6	0.6	0.6
Kashmiri	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Konkani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Marathi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nepali	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oriya (Odia)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	6.2	6.3	6.1	4.3	4.4	4.3
Sindhi	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Urdu	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Iranian languages	1.8	1.9	1.8	1.0	1.0	1.0
Kurdish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pashto	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Persian (Farsi)	1.7	1.7	1.7	0.9	1.0	0.9
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italic (Romance) languages	2.9	2.9	2.9	2.1	2.1	2.1
Catalan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italian	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
Portuguese	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4
Romanian	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Spanish	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.0	1.0	1.1
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Japanese	0.7	0.5	0.9	0.5	0.3	0.6
Kartvelian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Georgian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Korean	1.9	1.7	2.0	1.1	1.0	1.2
Mongolic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mongolian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Akan (Twi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bamanankan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Edo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ewe	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ganda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Igbo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lingala	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shona	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swahili	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wolof	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yoruba	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dinka	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
American Sign Language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Quebec Sign Language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages	15.9	14.9	16.9	8.9	8.3	9.5
Chinese languages	15.8	14.8	16.8	8.9	8.3	9.5
Cantonese	7.6	7.1	8.0	4.2	4.0	4.4
Hakka	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
Mandarin	7.2	6.7	7.7	4.1	3.7	4.4
Min Dong	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.3
Wu (Shanghainese)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Chinese, n.o.s.	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Burmese	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Karenic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibetan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tai-Kadai languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Lao	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thai	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Azerbaijani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Uyghur	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uzbek	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uralic languages	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Estonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Finnish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Hungarian	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Multiple responses	3.2	3.2	3.2	2.2	2.2	2.3
English and French	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
English and non-official language	2.9	2.8	2.9	1.9	1.9	2.0
French and non-official language	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
English, French and non-official language	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Language spoken most often at homeUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - Language spoken most often at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data^{Census data footnote 19}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Single responses	92.3	92.5	92.1	94.9	95.1	94.8
Official languages	66.9	68.1	65.7	79.3	80.2	78.6
English	66.5	67.7	65.3	79.0	79.8	78.2
French	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4
Non-official languages	25.5	24.4	26.5	15.6	15.0	16.2
Aboriginal languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Blackfoot	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree-Montagnais languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Atikamekw	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Montagnais (Innu)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Moose Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Naskapi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Plains Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swampy Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Woods Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malecite	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mi'kmaq	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oji-Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Beaver	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Carrier	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chilcotin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dene	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gwich'in	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sekani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey-Hare languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
North Slavey (Hare)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
South Slavey	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kaska (Nahani)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tutchone languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuktitut	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cayuga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mohawk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oneida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kutenai	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Michif	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Comox	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Halkomelem	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lillooet	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Okanagan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Squamish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Straits	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dakota	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Stoney	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tlingit	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nisga'a	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haisla	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Heiltsuk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-Aboriginal languages	25.4	24.4	26.5	15.6	14.9	16.2
Afro-Asiatic languages	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Berber languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kabyle	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bilen	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oromo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Somali	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
Amharic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Arabic	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Harari	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hebrew	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Maltese	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tigrigna	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4
Khmer (Cambodian)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vietnamese	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages	1.4	1.3	1.6	0.9	0.8	1.0
Bikol	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cebuano	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Fijian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hiligaynon	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ilocano	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malagasy	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malay	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pangasinan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	1.3	1.1	1.4	0.8	0.7	0.8
Waray-Waray	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haitian Creole	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Kannada	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malayalam	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tamil	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Telugu	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hmong-Mien languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Indo-European languages	9.0	9.0	9.1	6.1	6.1	6.2
Albanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Armenian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Balto-Slavic languages	1.1	1.0	1.1	0.7	0.7	0.7
Baltic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Latvian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lithuanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavic languages	1.0	1.0	1.1	0.7	0.7	0.7
Belarusan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bosnian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bulgarian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Croatian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Czech	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Macedonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Polish	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Russian	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Serbian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Serbo-Croatian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slovak	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slovene (Slovenian)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ukrainian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Scottish Gaelic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Welsh	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Afrikaans	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Danish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dutch	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Frisian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
German	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Icelandic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Norwegian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swedish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vlaams (Flemish)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yiddish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Greek	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Indo-Iranian languages	6.4	6.4	6.4	4.2	4.2	4.2
Indo-Aryan languages	5.2	5.2	5.2	3.6	3.6	3.6
Bengali	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gujarati	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Hindi	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Kashmiri	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Konkani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Marathi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nepali	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oriya (Odia)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	4.3	4.3	4.3	3.0	3.0	3.0
Sindhi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Urdu	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Iranian languages	1.2	1.2	1.2	0.7	0.7	0.7
Kurdish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pashto	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Persian (Farsi)	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.6
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italic (Romance) languages	1.3	1.2	1.3	0.8	0.8	0.9
Catalan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italian	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Portuguese	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2
Romanian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Spanish	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.5
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Japanese	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
Kartvelian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Georgian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Korean	1.4	1.3	1.5	0.8	0.8	0.9
Mongolic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mongolian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Akan (Twi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bamanankan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Edo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ewe	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ganda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Igbo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lingala	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shona	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swahili	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wolof	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yoruba	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dinka	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
American Sign Language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Quebec Sign Language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages	11.7	11.0	12.4	6.5	6.1	6.9
Chinese languages	11.6	10.9	12.3	6.5	6.1	6.9
Cantonese	5.4	5.1	5.8	3.0	2.8	3.2
Hakka	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mandarin	5.7	5.4	6.0	3.2	3.0	3.4
Min Dong	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Wu (Shanghainese)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Chinese, n.o.s.	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Burmese	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Karenic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibetan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tai-Kadai languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lao	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thai	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Azerbaijani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkish	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uyghur	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uzbek	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uralic languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Estonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Finnish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hungarian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Multiple responses	7.7	7.5	7.9	5.1	4.9	5.2
English and French	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
English and non-official language	7.4	7.3	7.6	4.8	4.7	5.0
French and non-official language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
English, French and non-official language	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other language spoken regularly at homeUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - Other language(s) spoken regularly at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data^{Census data footnote 20}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
None	78.7	79.3	78.1	85.5	86.0	85.0
English	9.5	9.4	9.6	6.0	5.9	6.0
French	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.8	1.0
Non-official language	10.7	10.2	11.1	7.4	7.0	7.8
Aboriginal	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Non-Aboriginal	10.7	10.2	11.1	7.2	6.9	7.6
English and French	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
English and non-official language	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
French and non-official language	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
English, French and non-official language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Knowledge of languagesUpdate of the 2016 Census language data
Total - Knowledge of languages for the population in private households - 25% sample data^{Census data footnote 44}	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Official languages	94.4	95.3	93.6	96.6	97.2	96.1
English	94.4	95.2	93.5	96.6	97.1	96.1
French	7.1	6.5	7.7	6.9	6.3	7.5
Non-official languages	50.3	48.4	52.1	33.9	32.5	35.3
Aboriginal languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.4
Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Blackfoot	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree-Montagnais languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Atikamekw	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Montagnais (Innu)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Moose Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Naskapi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Plains Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern East Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swampy Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Woods Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cree, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Eastern Algonquian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malecite	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mi'kmaq	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ojibway	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oji-Cree	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ottawa (Odawa)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Northern Athabaskan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Babine (Wetsuwet'en)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Beaver	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Carrier	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chilcotin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dene	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dogrib (Tlicho)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gwich'in	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sarsi (Sarcee)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sekani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey-Hare languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
North Slavey (Hare)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
South Slavey	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kaska (Nahani)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tahltan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tutchone languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Southern Tutchone	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuktitut	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cayuga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mohawk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oneida	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kutenai	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Michif	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Comox	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Halkomelem	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lillooet	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Okanagan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Squamish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Straits	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dakota	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Stoney	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tlingit	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Gitxsan (Gitksan)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nisga'a	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tsimshian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Haisla	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Heiltsuk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-Aboriginal languages	50.2	48.4	52.0	33.5	32.1	34.9
Afro-Asiatic languages	1.2	1.3	1.1	0.8	0.8	0.7
Berber languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kabyle	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Berber languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bilen	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oromo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Somali	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.7	0.8	0.7
Amharic	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Arabic	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.5
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Harari	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hebrew	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Maltese	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tigrigna	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages	1.3	1.2	1.3	0.8	0.8	0.8
Khmer (Cambodian)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vietnamese	1.2	1.2	1.2	0.7	0.7	0.8
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages	4.4	3.8	5.0	2.8	2.3	3.2
Bikol	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cebuano	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Fijian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hiligaynon	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ilocano	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.2
Malagasy	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malay	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pangasinan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	4.0	3.3	4.6	2.5	2.0	2.9
Waray-Waray	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Haitian Creole	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole, n.o.s.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Kannada	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malayalam	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Tamil	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Telugu	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hmong-Mien languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Indo-European languages	22.1	22.1	22.1	16.8	16.6	16.9
Albanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Armenian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Balto-Slavic languages	2.7	2.7	2.8	2.1	2.0	2.1
Baltic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Latvian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lithuanian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slavic languages	2.7	2.6	2.8	2.0	2.0	2.1
Belarusan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bosnian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bulgarian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
Croatian	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Czech	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Macedonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Polish	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4
Russian	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.8
Serbian	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Serbo-Croatian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slovak	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Slovene (Slovenian)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ukrainian	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Scottish Gaelic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Welsh	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages	2.4	2.3	2.4	3.0	2.9	3.1
Afrikaans	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Danish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Dutch	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5
Frisian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
German	1.6	1.6	1.6	2.1	2.0	2.1
Icelandic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Norwegian	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Swedish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Vlaams (Flemish)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yiddish	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Greek	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Indo-Iranian languages	12.2	12.5	12.0	8.0	8.1	7.8
Indo-Aryan languages	10.2	10.4	10.1	6.8	6.9	6.7
Bengali	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Gujarati	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.3
Hindi	2.9	2.9	2.9	1.8	1.8	1.8
Kashmiri	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Konkani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Marathi	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nepali	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oriya (Odia)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Punjabi (Panjabi)	7.7	7.9	7.6	5.4	5.5	5.3
Sindhi	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Urdu	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.3
Iranian languages	2.0	2.1	2.0	1.1	1.2	1.1
Kurdish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
Pashto	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Persian (Farsi)	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.1	1.1	1.1
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italic (Romance) languages	4.9	4.8	5.0	3.9	3.7	4.1
Catalan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Italian	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.8	0.8	0.8
Portuguese	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5
Romanian	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Spanish	3.1	3.0	3.2	2.5	2.4	2.7
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Japanese	1.2	1.0	1.3	0.8	0.7	0.9
Kartvelian languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Georgian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Korean	2.1	2.0	2.2	1.3	1.2	1.3
Mongolic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mongolian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Akan (Twi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bamanankan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Edo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ewe	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ga	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ganda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Igbo	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lingala	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Shona	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Swahili	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Wolof	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Yoruba	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dinka	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2
American Sign Language	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Quebec Sign Language	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Sino-Tibetan languages	17.8	16.8	18.7	10.0	9.4	10.6
Chinese languages	17.7	16.7	18.6	10.0	9.4	10.5
Cantonese	9.2	8.7	9.7	5.1	4.8	5.4
Hakka	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Mandarin	10.3	9.5	11.1	5.8	5.4	6.3
Min Dong	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese)	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.4
Wu (Shanghainese)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Chinese, n.o.s.	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
Chinese languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Burmese	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Karenic languages	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibetan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tai-Kadai languages	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Lao	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thai	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
Azerbaijani	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkish	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Uyghur	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uzbek	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Uralic languages	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4
Estonian	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Finnish	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Hungarian	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Uralic languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other languages, n.i.e.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

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Footnote 15

Total - Knowledge of official languages for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data

Knowledge of official languages refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both languages or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

Total population excluding institutional residents refers to the total population excluding persons who live in institutional collective dwellings.

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Footnote 16

Total - First official language spoken for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data

First official language spoken is specified within the framework of the Official Languages Act. It refers to the first official language (i.e., English or French) spoken by the person.

Total population excluding institutional residents refers to the total population excluding persons who live in institutional collective dwellings.

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Footnote 17

Official language minority

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 18

Total - Mother tongue for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data

Mother tongue refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the person at the time the data was collected. If the person no longer understands the first language learned, the mother tongue is the second language learned. For a person who learned two languages at the same time in early childhood, the mother tongue is the language this person spoke most often at home before starting school. The person has two mother tongues only if the two languages were used equally often and are still understood by the person. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, the mother tongue is the language spoken most often to this child at home. The child has two mother tongues only if both languages are spoken equally often so that the child learns both languages at the same time.

Total population excluding institutional residents refers to the total population excluding persons who live in institutional collective dwellings.

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere

n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Footnote 19

Total - Language spoken most often at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data

Language spoken most often at home refers to the language the person speaks most often at home at the time of data collection. A person can report more than one language as 'spoken most often at home' if the languages are spoken equally often.

For a person who lives alone, the language spoken most often at home is the language in which he or she feels most comfortable. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this is the language spoken most often to the child at home. Where two languages are spoken to the child, the language spoken most often at home is the language spoken most often. If both languages are used equally often, then both languages are included here.

Total population excluding institutional residents refers to the total population excluding persons who live in institutional collective dwellings.

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere

n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Footnote 20

Total - Other language(s) spoken regularly at home for the total population excluding institutional residents - 100% data

Other language(s) spoken regularly at home refers to the languages, if any, that the person speaks at home on a regular basis at the time of data collection, other than the language or languages he or she speaks most often at home.

Total population excluding institutional residents refers to the total population excluding persons who live in institutional collective dwellings.

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Footnote 44

'Knowledge of official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in English only, French only, in both or in neither language. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home.

'Knowledge of non-official languages' refers to whether the person can conduct a conversation in a language other than English or French. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, this includes languages that the child is learning to speak at home. The number of languages that can be reported may vary between surveys, depending on the objectives of the survey.

For more information on language variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Languages Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

This is a total population count. The sum of the languages in this table is greater than the total population count because a person may report more than one language in the census.

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere

n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population.

How to cite: Statistics Canada. 2017. Vancouver [Census metropolitan area], British Columbia and British Columbia [Province] (table). Census Profile. 2016 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-316-X2016001. Ottawa. Released November 29, 2017.
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E (accessed May 27, 2024).

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