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Census Profile

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Regional municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 97,398
Population in 20061 102,250
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -4.7
Total private dwellings2 45,371
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 41,122
Population density per square kilometre 40.0
Land area (square km) 2,433.35
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 97,400
0 to 4 years 4,070
5 to 9 years 4,300
10 to 14 years 4,960
15 to 19 years 6,170
15 years 1,185
16 years 1,170
17 years 1,265
18 years 1,265
19 years 1,295
20 to 24 years 5,880
25 to 29 years 4,485
30 to 34 years 4,425
35 to 39 years 5,070
40 to 44 years 5,735
45 to 49 years 7,615
50 to 54 years 8,740
55 to 59 years 8,610
60 to 64 years 7,850
65 to 69 years 5,940
70 to 74 years 4,705
75 to 79 years 3,605
80 to 84 years 2,585
85 years and over 2,660
Median age of the population5 47.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 86.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 84,075
Married or living with a common-law partner 44,015
Married (and not separated) 38,205
Living common law 5,810
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 40,065
Single (never legally married) 24,310
Separated 3,150
Divorced 5,200
Widowed 7,395
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 28,805
Size of census family: 2 persons 15,885
Size of census family: 3 persons 6,840
Size of census family: 4 persons 4,445
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 1,630
Total number of census families in private households8 28,805
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 21,695
Married couples 18,795
Without children at home 9,940
With children at home 8,855
1 child 4,215
2 children 3,410
3 or more children 1,230
Common-law couples 2,900
Without children at home 1,545
With children at home 1,355
1 child 650
2 children 455
3 or more children 245
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 7,110
Female parent 5,925
1 child 3,555
2 children 1,715
3 or more children 660
Male parent 1,185
1 child 845
2 children 260
3 or more children 80
Total children in census families in private households 28,185
Under six years of age 4,875
6 to 14 years 8,330
15 to 17 years 3,490
18 to 24 years 6,450
25 years and over 5,040
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 95,475
Number of persons not in census families 16,785
Living with relatives9 2,485
Living with non-relatives only 2,470
Living alone 11,835
Number of census family persons 78,690
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 18,310
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 6,740
Living with relatives9 1,055
Living with non-relatives only 310
Living alone 5,375
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 11,570
Total number of private households by household type10 41,120
Census-family households 27,995
One-family-only households11 25,390
Couple-family households12 19,820
Without children 10,505
With children 9,320
Lone-parent-family households 5,565
Other family households13 2,610
One-family households with persons not in a census family 1,820
Couple-family households14 1,005
Without children 445
With children 565
Lone-parent-family households 815
Two-or-more-family households 790
Non-census-family households 13,130
One-person households 11,830
Two-or-more-person households 1,290
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 41,125
Single-detached house 30,480
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 200
Movable dwelling16 1,185
Other dwelling17 9,255
Semi-detached house 2,675
Row house 640
Apartment, duplex 1,675
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 4,190
Other single-attached house 75
Total number of private households by household size18 41,120
1 person 11,830
2 persons 14,900
3 persons 7,060
4 persons 4,910
5 persons 1,750
6 or more persons 670
Number of persons in private households 95,470
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 95,885
  Single responses  95,610
    English  93,210
    French  920
    Non-official languages  1,475
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 70
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  60
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 1,330
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  315
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  20
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  20
        Chinese, n.o.s.  180
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  10
        Czech  0
        Danish  10
        Dutch  50
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  75
        Greek  55
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  10
        Hungarian  30
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  70
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  5
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  5
        Maltese  5
        Mandarin  25
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  20
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  20
        Polish  65
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  15
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        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  45
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  25
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  30
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  50
        Urdu  65
        Vietnamese  30
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 75
  Multiple responses          270
    English and French  125
    English and non-official language  140
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 95,880
  English only 91,715
  French only 25
  English and French 4,080
  Neither English nor French 60
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 95,880
  English 95,025
  French 770
  English and French 40
  Neither English nor French 45
Official language minority (number)23 790
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.8
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 95,885
  Single responses 95,575
    English 94,620
    French 255
    Non-official languages 705
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 25
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 20
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 665
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 225
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 10
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 145
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 20
        Greek 15
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5
        Italian 5
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 5
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 15
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 15
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 15
        Polish 15
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 5
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 5
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 30
        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 30
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 15
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 10
        Urdu 45
        Vietnamese 20
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses         310
    English and French 80
    English and non-official language 225
    French and non-official language 5
    English, French and non-official language 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 95,880
  None 94,240
  Single responses  1,620
    English  390
    French  625
    Non-official languages  605
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 60
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  5
        Mi'kmaq  50
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 450
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  70
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  10
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  25
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  40
        Greek  25
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  10
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  30
        Japanese  10
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        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.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  5
        Polish  20
        Portuguese  5
        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.  15
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  5
        Somali  0
        Spanish  40
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  10
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  10
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  5
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  5
      Other languages22 95
  Multiple responses          20
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  15
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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