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Mulgrave, Nova Scotia (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 794
Population in 20061 879
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -9.7
Total private dwellings2 367
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 328
Population density per square kilometre 44.6
Land area (square km) 17.81
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 795
0 to 4 years 40
5 to 9 years 45
10 to 14 years 55
15 to 19 years 45
15 years 15
16 years 10
17 years 10
18 years 5
19 years 10
20 to 24 years 30
25 to 29 years 35
30 to 34 years 50
35 to 39 years 40
40 to 44 years 55
45 to 49 years 65
50 to 54 years 65
55 to 59 years 70
60 to 64 years 60
65 to 69 years 50
70 to 74 years 40
75 to 79 years 20
80 to 84 years 20
85 years and over 15
Median age of the population5 45.6
% of the population aged 15 and over 83.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 660
Married or living with a common-law partner 410
Married (and not separated) 350
Living common law 65
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 250
Single (never legally married) 155
Separated 15
Divorced 30
Widowed 45
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 245
Size of census family: 2 persons 125
Size of census family: 3 persons 60
Size of census family: 4 persons 45
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 10
Total number of census families in private households8 245
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 205
Married couples 175
Without children at home 90
With children at home 80
1 child 40
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Common-law couples 35
Without children at home 10
With children at home 20
1 child 10
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 40
Female parent 30
1 child 20
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Male parent 5
1 child 5
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 230
Under six years of age 50
6 to 14 years 85
15 to 17 years 30
18 to 24 years 35
25 years and over 35
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 790
Number of persons not in census families 115
Living with relatives9 20
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 80
Number of census family persons 675
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 150
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 40
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 35
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 105
Total number of private households by household type10 330
Census-family households 235
One-family-only households11 215
Couple-family households12 185
Without children 95
With children 95
Lone-parent-family households 30
Other family households13 20
One-family households with persons not in a census family 15
Couple-family households14 5
Without children 5
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 5
Two-or-more-family households 5
Non-census-family households 90
One-person households 80
Two-or-more-person households 10
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 325
Single-detached house 265
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 30
Other dwelling17 35
Semi-detached house 5
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 25
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 330
1 person 85
2 persons 115
3 persons 65
4 persons 45
5 persons 15
6 or more persons 5
Number of persons in private households 795
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 795
  Single responses  790
    English  775
    French  10
    Non-official languages  5
      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 5
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        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  5
        Dutch  0
        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  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  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  0
        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  0
        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          5
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    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 795
  English only 775
  French only 0
  English and French 15
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 795
  English 790
  French 5
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 5
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 795
  Single responses 790
    English 795
    French 0
    Non-official languages 0
      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 0
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 0
        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 0
        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 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 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 0
        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 0
        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         0
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 0
    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 795
  None 785
  Single responses  5
    English  0
    French  5
    Non-official languages  0
      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 0
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        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  0
        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  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  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  0
        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  0
        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          5
    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.