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 Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2016 Census - 100% Data

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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 Kelowna
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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 3 192,830 188,865 2,835 300 840 2,980 1.5
Single responses 188,925 185,155 2,715 215 835 2,825 1.5
Official languages 182,040 179,340 2,700 0 0 2,705 1.5
English 181,320 179,270 2,050 0 0 2,050 1.1
French 715 65 655 0 0 650 90.9
Non-official languages 6,890 5,820 15 215 835 125 1.8
Aboriginal languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Algonquian languages 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cree-Montagnais languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
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. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 5 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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 6,880 5,815 15 215 835 125 1.8
Afro-Asiatic languages 170 90 0 10 70 5 2.9
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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Oromo 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Somali 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages 165 85 0 5 75 5 3.0
Amharic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Arabic 150 70 0 10 75 5 3.3
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Harari 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hebrew 15 15 0 0 5 0 0.0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austro-Asiatic languages 170 130 0 5 30 5 2.9
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vietnamese 165 130 0 5 35 0 0.0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Austronesian languages 440 415 5 10 15 5 1.1
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Cebuano 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Hiligaynon 5 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ilocano 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Malagasy 5 5 5 0 0 0 0.0
Malay 20 20 0 0 5 0 0.0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Pangasinan 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 365 350 0 10 10 5 1.4
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 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Creole, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Dravidian languages 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Malayalam 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tamil 10 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Telugu 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 4,470 3,815 10 170 475 95 2.1
Albanian 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Balto-Slavic languages 830 750 0 25 55 10 1.2
Baltic languages 20 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Latvian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lithuanian 20 15 0 5 0 0 0.0
Slavic languages 805 730 0 25 50 15 1.9
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Bosnian 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Croatian 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Czech 80 80 0 0 0 5 6.3
Macedonian 5 5 0 0 5 0 0.0
Polish 195 180 0 5 10 0 0.0
Russian 235 200 0 15 25 5 2.1
Serbian 60 55 0 0 5 0 0.0
Serbo-Croatian 20 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Slovak 25 25 0 0 0 5 20.0
Slovene (Slovenian) 20 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Ukrainian 90 80 0 0 10 0 0.0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Celtic languages 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 1,090 950 5 80 50 45 4.1
Afrikaans 75 75 0 0 0 0 0.0
Danish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dutch 125 95 0 30 0 15 12.0
Frisian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
German 855 765 5 40 50 30 3.5
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Norwegian 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Swedish 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Vlaams (Flemish) 0 5 0 5 0 0 not applicable ...
Yiddish 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 5 0 0 0 0.0
Greek 35 35 0 0 0 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages 1,820 1,520 0 15 285 10 0.5
Indo-Aryan languages 1,650 1,365 0 10 275 5 0.3
Bengali 60 50 0 0 10 0 0.0
Gujarati 15 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Hindi 80 75 0 0 0 0 0.0
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Marathi 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nepali 25 15 0 5 5 0 0.0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Punjabi (Panjabi) 1,415 1,155 0 10 250 5 0.4
Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urdu 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.0
Iranian languages 170 150 0 5 15 0 0.0
Kurdish 10 10 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Persian (Farsi) 155 135 0 5 15 0 0.0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italic (Romance) languages 685 550 0 50 85 25 3.6
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Italian 155 135 0 0 15 0 0.0
Portuguese 90 75 0 5 10 5 5.6
Romanian 85 65 5 10 10 10 11.8
Spanish 350 275 0 30 50 15 4.3
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Japanese 135 120 0 0 15 0 0.0
Kartvelian languages 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Georgian 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Korean 330 280 0 5 45 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 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Akan (Twi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Igbo 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Shona 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Swahili 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Yoruba 0 5 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
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 60 35 0 0 15 0 0.0
American Sign Language 20 10 0 0 5 0 0.0
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Sign languages, n.i.e 40 25 5 0 10 0 0.0
Sino-Tibetan languages 795 640 0 5 150 5 0.6
Chinese languages 795 640 0 5 145 5 0.6
Cantonese 250 185 0 5 60 5 2.0
Hakka 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mandarin 465 395 0 5 60 0 0.0
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 10 0 0 10 0 0.0
Wu (Shanghainese) 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Chinese, n.o.s. 55 45 0 0 15 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Tai-Kadai languages 30 25 0 0 5 0 0.0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Thai 30 25 0 0 0 0 0.0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkic languages 15 15 0 0 0 0 0.0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Turkish 10 15 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 215 190 0 15 5 10 4.7
Estonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Finnish 25 20 0 5 0 0 0.0
Hungarian 195 170 0 15 5 5 2.6
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0 0 not applicable ...
Other languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0 0 0.0
Multiple responses 3,900 3,705 115 80 0 155 4.0
English and French 220 80 90 50 0 110 50.0
English and non-official language 3,610 3,600 10 0 0 10 0.3
French and non-official language 15 5 10 0 0 10 66.7
English, French and non-official language 55 15 5 30 0 25 45.5

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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-X2016072.

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