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Census Profile

Caraquet, New Brunswick (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 4,169
Population in 20061 4,156
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 0.3
Total private dwellings2 1,943
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,838
Population density per square kilometre 61.1
Land area (square km) 68.26
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 4,165
0 to 4 years 140
5 to 9 years 160
10 to 14 years 200
15 to 19 years 210
15 years 35
16 years 55
17 years 40
18 years 50
19 years 30
20 to 24 years 165
25 to 29 years 205
30 to 34 years 225
35 to 39 years 210
40 to 44 years 325
45 to 49 years 325
50 to 54 years 410
55 to 59 years 415
60 to 64 years 365
65 to 69 years 230
70 to 74 years 165
75 to 79 years 145
80 to 84 years 125
85 years and over 145
Median age of the population5 48.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 87.9
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 3,665
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,100
Married (and not separated) 1,380
Living common law 720
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,570
Single (never legally married) 940
Separated 180
Divorced 180
Widowed 275
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,260
Size of census family: 2 persons 750
Size of census family: 3 persons 290
Size of census family: 4 persons 185
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 30
Total number of census families in private households8 1,255
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,030
Married couples 675
Without children at home 410
With children at home 260
1 child 140
2 children 100
3 or more children 15
Common-law couples 355
Without children at home 185
With children at home 175
1 child 95
2 children 70
3 or more children 15
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 225
Female parent 185
1 child 125
2 children 45
3 or more children 15
Male parent 40
1 child 25
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 995
Under six years of age 170
6 to 14 years 325
15 to 17 years 125
18 to 24 years 205
25 years and over 170
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 4,020
Number of persons not in census families 740
Living with relatives9 70
Living with non-relatives only 130
Living alone 535
Number of census family persons 3,285
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 700
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 230
Living with relatives9 35
Living with non-relatives only 20
Living alone 175
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 465
Total number of private households by household type10 1,835
Census-family households 1,240
One-family-only households11 1,160
Couple-family households12 970
Without children 565
With children 405
Lone-parent-family households 185
Other family households13 80
One-family households with persons not in a census family 65
Couple-family households14 35
Without children 15
With children 20
Lone-parent-family households 25
Two-or-more-family households 20
Non-census-family households 595
One-person households 540
Two-or-more-person households 60
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,835
Single-detached house 1,380
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 120
Other dwelling17 340
Semi-detached house 40
Row house 20
Apartment, duplex 75
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 190
Other single-attached house 15
Total number of private households by household size18 1,840
1 person 540
2 persons 740
3 persons 305
4 persons 200
5 persons 40
6 or more persons 15
Number of persons in private households 4,025
Average number of persons in private households 2.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,025
  Single responses  4,015
    English  65
    French  3,930
    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 20
        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.  5
        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 0
  Multiple responses          15
    English and French  15
    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 4,025
  English only 15
  French only 1,925
  English and French 2,085
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,030
  English 70
  French 3,955
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 3,955
Official language minority (percentage)23 98.1
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,025
  Single responses 4,015
    English 45
    French 3,965
    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. 5
        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         15
    English and French 10
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 5
    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 4,030
  None 3,815
  Single responses  205
    English  175
    French  25
    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 10
        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  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  5
        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.

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