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Census Profile

Victoria, Subd. A, Nova Scotia (Subdivision of county municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 2,769
Population in 20061 3,046
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -9.1
Total private dwellings2 1,662
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,150
Population density per square kilometre 1.7
Land area (square km) 1,633.41
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 2,770
0 to 4 years 120
5 to 9 years 140
10 to 14 years 175
15 to 19 years 185
15 years 35
16 years 40
17 years 40
18 years 35
19 years 35
20 to 24 years 125
25 to 29 years 110
30 to 34 years 120
35 to 39 years 145
40 to 44 years 165
45 to 49 years 240
50 to 54 years 250
55 to 59 years 240
60 to 64 years 255
65 to 69 years 150
70 to 74 years 120
75 to 79 years 80
80 to 84 years 70
85 years and over 60
Median age of the population5 46.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 2,335
Married or living with a common-law partner 1,350
Married (and not separated) 1,095
Living common law 250
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 985
Single (never legally married) 620
Separated 60
Divorced 115
Widowed 190
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 840
Size of census family: 2 persons 460
Size of census family: 3 persons 195
Size of census family: 4 persons 120
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 65
Total number of census families in private households8 840
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 660
Married couples 535
Without children at home 300
With children at home 235
1 child 120
2 children 80
3 or more children 35
Common-law couples 125
Without children at home 50
With children at home 75
1 child 30
2 children 20
3 or more children 20
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 175
Female parent 150
1 child 85
2 children 35
3 or more children 25
Male parent 25
1 child 20
2 children 5
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 820
Under six years of age 140
6 to 14 years 290
15 to 17 years 110
18 to 24 years 155
25 years and over 120
Average number of children at home per census family 1.0
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 2,725
Number of persons not in census families 405
Living with relatives9 55
Living with non-relatives only 45
Living alone 305
Number of census family persons 2,320
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 465
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 150
Living with relatives9 20
Living with non-relatives only 10
Living alone 125
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 310
Total number of private households by household type10 1,150
Census-family households 815
One-family-only households11 760
Couple-family households12 620
Without children 335
With children 280
Lone-parent-family households 140
Other family households13 60
One-family households with persons not in a census family 35
Couple-family households14 20
Without children 5
With children 15
Lone-parent-family households 20
Two-or-more-family households 20
Non-census-family households 330
One-person households 305
Two-or-more-person households 25
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,150
Single-detached house 1,060
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 65
Other dwelling17 30
Semi-detached house 0
Row house 10
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 15
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 1,150
1 person 300
2 persons 440
3 persons 190
4 persons 130
5 persons 65
6 or more persons 20
Number of persons in private households 2,720
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,745
  Single responses  2,735
    English  2,695
    French  20
    Non-official languages  20
      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 15
        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  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        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  5
        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  5
        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          15
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  5
    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 2,745
  English only 2,665
  French only 0
  English and French 80
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,745
  English 2,725
  French 20
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 20
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.7
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,745
  Single responses 2,745
    English 2,730
    French 0
    Non-official languages 10
      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 0
        Dutch 5
        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 5
  Multiple responses         5
    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 2,745
  None 2,715
  Single responses  30
    English  10
    French  15
    Non-official languages  10
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        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  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 5
  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.

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