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 Kitchener, 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 1 230,645 210,895 130 14,895 4,725
Single responses 225,530 206,695 120 14,005 4,705
Official languages 164,935 153,640 85 11,150 60
English 162,155 153,365 5 8,730 55
French 2,775 270 85 2,420 0
Non-official languages 60,600 53,055 40 2,855 4,650
Aboriginal languages 15 15 0 0 0
Algonquian languages 10 10 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 5 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 5 0 0 0
Algonquin 0 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 5 5 0 0 0
Oji-Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Ottawa (Odawa) 0 0 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 5 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 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 5 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 5 5 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. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 60,580 53,035 35 2,855 4,650
Afro-Asiatic languages 6,650 5,280 5 270 1,090
Berber languages 5 0 0 5 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 5 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 5 0
Cushitic languages 980 830 0 20 125
Bilen 100 70 0 0 30
Oromo 80 65 0 0 10
Somali 770 665 0 15 90
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 5 0
Semitic languages 5,655 4,440 5 245 965
Amharic 660 605 0 15 40
Arabic 3,890 2,845 5 215 825
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 215 190 0 0 25
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 30 25 0 0 0
Harari 15 10 0 0 0
Hebrew 50 45 0 5 0
Maltese 20 25 0 0 0
Tigrigna 735 645 0 15 65
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 35 30 0 0 5
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 2,545 2,100 5 65 380
Khmer (Cambodian) 220 185 0 5 25
Vietnamese 2,320 1,910 5 60 355
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 1,045 1,025 0 10 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 60 60 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 20 25 0 0 0
Ilocano 50 45 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 70 70 0 0 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 10 5 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 800 795 0 5 0
Waray-Waray 5 5 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 20 25 0 5 0
Creole languages 95 60 0 35 5
Haitian Creole 0 5 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 45 15 0 30 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 50 40 0 5 0
Dravidian languages 855 800 0 20 30
Kannada 45 35 0 5 0
Malayalam 330 310 0 5 15
Tamil 320 300 0 10 10
Telugu 150 145 0 0 10
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 5 10 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 375 335 0 5 30
Indo-European languages 41,200 36,640 25 2,145 2,385
Albanian 845 740 0 15 85
Armenian 170 125 0 30 20
Balto-Slavic languages 11,800 10,695 5 545 555
Baltic languages 85 75 0 10 0
Latvian 45 35 0 5 0
Lithuanian 40 40 0 0 0
Slavic languages 11,720 10,620 5 535 560
Belarusan 10 10 0 0 0
Bosnian 440 390 0 20 30
Bulgarian 55 50 0 5 0
Croatian 1,455 1,365 0 30 60
Czech 395 380 0 15 0
Macedonian 110 100 0 5 5
Polish 2,965 2,785 0 75 100
Russian 825 685 0 90 55
Serbian 4,005 3,520 0 220 265
Serbo-Croatian 380 340 0 15 20
Slovak 325 310 0 10 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 175 170 0 5 5
Ukrainian 405 360 0 30 10
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 175 160 0 10 0
Celtic languages 15 15 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 10 10 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0 0
Germanic languages 5,340 5,070 0 250 20
Afrikaans 25 25 0 5 0
Danish 70 70 0 0 0
Dutch 600 545 0 50 0
Frisian 5 5 0 0 0
German 4,570 4,380 0 180 10
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 20 20 0 5 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 25 10 0 10 0
Yiddish 5 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Greek 715 655 0 20 40
Indo-Iranian languages 9,055 7,925 5 340 790
Indo-Aryan languages 6,145 5,475 5 215 455
Bengali 475 430 0 20 20
Gujarati 1,065 965 0 35 65
Hindi 700 665 0 20 15
Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0
Konkani 20 20 0 0 0
Marathi 60 55 0 5 5
Nepali 170 110 5 25 30
Oriya (Odia) 5 5 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 2,220 1,890 0 70 260
Sindhi 145 140 0 5 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 95 85 0 5 0
Urdu 1,190 1,110 0 30 55
Iranian languages 2,755 2,320 0 115 320
Kurdish 520 430 0 10 75
Pashto 170 145 0 15 10
Persian (Farsi) 2,070 1,745 0 90 235
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 155 125 0 10 15
Italic (Romance) languages 13,270 11,420 15 960 880
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 660 585 0 65 10
Portuguese 3,050 2,625 5 105 315
Romanian 4,055 3,300 5 530 225
Spanish 5,505 4,910 5 255 330
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Japanese 160 145 0 5 10
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 785 690 0 30 70
Mongolic languages 0 0 0 0 0
Mongolian 0 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 425 340 5 75 10
Akan (Twi) 35 35 0 0 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 5 5 0 0 0
Ewe 5 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 5 5 0 0 0
Ganda 10 10 0 0 0
Igbo 15 15 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 5 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 15 0 5 10 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 25 20 0 5 0
Shona 55 55 0 0 0
Swahili 95 70 0 20 10
Wolof 10 5 0 0 0
Yoruba 45 45 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 105 75 0 30 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 205 195 0 5 10
Dinka 5 0 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 200 190 0 5 10
Sign languages 55 35 0 5 20
American Sign Language 30 25 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 20 10 0 0 15
Sino-Tibetan languages 3,935 3,340 0 105 485
Chinese languages 3,585 3,045 0 100 440
Cantonese 830 700 0 30 100
Hakka 55 45 0 0 10
Mandarin 2,315 1,975 0 60 275
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 85 80 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 35 25 0 5 10
Chinese, n.o.s. 255 210 0 0 40
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 355 295 0 10 50
Burmese 135 115 0 0 15
Karenic languages 110 85 0 0 30
Tibetan 10 5 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 100 90 0 0 10
Tai-Kadai languages 700 625 0 20 60
Lao 645 570 0 20 55
Thai 60 50 0 0 5
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 535 490 0 15 25
Azerbaijani 25 20 0 0 0
Turkish 470 440 0 10 20
Uyghur 5 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 5 10 0 5 5
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 25 20 0 0 5
Uralic languages 980 905 0 45 30
Estonian 35 30 0 0 0
Finnish 50 50 0 5 0
Hungarian 890 830 0 35 30
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 35 35 0 0 0
Multiple responses 5,115 4,200 5 895 20
English and French 610 150 0 455 0
English and non-official language 4,275 3,995 0 260 15
French and non-official language 115 30 10 75 0
English, French and non-official language 120 25 0 95 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) – Kitchener, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 3.6%.
  • 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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