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Amherst, Nova Scotia (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 9,717
Population in 20061 9,505
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 2.2
Total private dwellings2 4,811
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 4,403
Population density per square kilometre 808.4
Land area (square km) 12.02
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 9,715
0 to 4 years 520
5 to 9 years 475
10 to 14 years 500
15 to 19 years 520
15 years 105
16 years 100
17 years 100
18 years 110
19 years 105
20 to 24 years 515
25 to 29 years 460
30 to 34 years 545
35 to 39 years 585
40 to 44 years 595
45 to 49 years 755
50 to 54 years 770
55 to 59 years 730
60 to 64 years 700
65 to 69 years 485
70 to 74 years 455
75 to 79 years 380
80 to 84 years 310
85 years and over 410
Median age of the population5 45.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.6
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 8,225
Married or living with a common-law partner 4,380
Married (and not separated) 3,485
Living common law 895
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 3,845
Single (never legally married) 1,975
Separated 345
Divorced 650
Widowed 880
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 2,795
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,675
Size of census family: 3 persons 590
Size of census family: 4 persons 370
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 155
Total number of census families in private households8 2,800
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 2,150
Married couples 1,705
Without children at home 985
With children at home 725
1 child 335
2 children 280
3 or more children 105
Common-law couples 445
Without children at home 255
With children at home 190
1 child 100
2 children 50
3 or more children 35
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 645
Female parent 515
1 child 330
2 children 135
3 or more children 50
Male parent 130
1 child 105
2 children 20
3 or more children 10
Total children in census families in private households 2,490
Under six years of age 620
6 to 14 years 860
15 to 17 years 290
18 to 24 years 415
25 years and over 300
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 9,395
Number of persons not in census families 1,960
Living with relatives9 150
Living with non-relatives only 265
Living alone 1,540
Number of census family persons 7,440
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,830
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 785
Living with relatives9 50
Living with non-relatives only 40
Living alone 695
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,050
Total number of private households by household type10 4,405
Census-family households 2,750
One-family-only households11 2,545
Couple-family households12 2,020
Without children 1,160
With children 855
Lone-parent-family households 525
Other family households13 210
One-family households with persons not in a census family 165
Couple-family households14 80
Without children 45
With children 35
Lone-parent-family households 85
Two-or-more-family households 45
Non-census-family households 1,650
One-person households 1,545
Two-or-more-person households 110
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 4,405
Single-detached house 2,225
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 495
Other dwelling17 1,685
Semi-detached house 195
Row house 205
Apartment, duplex 335
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 890
Other single-attached house 60
Total number of private households by household size18 4,405
1 person 1,540
2 persons 1,610
3 persons 640
4 persons 410
5 persons 145
6 or more persons 50
Number of persons in private households 9,395
Average number of persons in private households 2.1
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,540
  Single responses  9,500
    English  9,210
    French  165
    Non-official languages  115
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 110
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  15
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  10
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  25
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  15
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  10
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  5
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  5
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          40
    English and French  20
    English and non-official language  15
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,540
  English only 8,930
  French only 0
  English and French 610
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,540
  English 9,405
  French 125
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 125
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,535
  Single responses 9,510
    English 9,455
    French 10
    Non-official languages 45
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 40
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 5
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 5
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 10
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 5
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 10
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 5
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         30
    English and French 15
    English and non-official language 15
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 9,535
  None 9,310
  Single responses  225
    English  30
    French  125
    Non-official languages  75
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  5
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 65
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  10
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  10
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  5
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  5
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  10
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  5
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.