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Census Profile

Shippagan, New Brunswick (Parish)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 5,032 E
Population in 20061 5,370
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -6.3 E
Total private dwellings2 2,491
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,205
Population density per square kilometre 24.3
Land area (square km) 207.25
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 5,030
0 to 4 years 180
5 to 9 years 160
10 to 14 years 205
15 to 19 years 260
15 years 45
16 years 40
17 years 55
18 years 65
19 years 50
20 to 24 years 265
25 to 29 years 235
30 to 34 years 270
35 to 39 years 310
40 to 44 years 325
45 to 49 years 465
50 to 54 years 495
55 to 59 years 505
60 to 64 years 480
65 to 69 years 355
70 to 74 years 215
75 to 79 years 140
80 to 84 years 100
85 years and over 65
Median age of the population5 48.3
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 4,485
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,435
Married (and not separated) 1,705
Living common law 730
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 2,055
Single (never legally married) 1,445
Separated 195
Divorced 150
Widowed 265
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,595
Size of census family: 2 persons 940
Size of census family: 3 persons 435
Size of census family: 4 persons 195
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 30
Total number of census families in private households8 1,600
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,200
Married couples 840
Without children at home 480
With children at home 355
1 child 235
2 children 100
3 or more children 20
Common-law couples 365
Without children at home 175
With children at home 190
1 child 110
2 children 70
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 390
Female parent 280
1 child 190
2 children 65
3 or more children 25
Male parent 110
1 child 90
2 children 25
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,315
Under six years of age 200
6 to 14 years 335
15 to 17 years 135
18 to 24 years 305
25 years and over 330
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,035
Number of persons not in census families 925
Living with relatives9 160
Living with non-relatives only 170
Living alone 585
Number of census family persons 4,110
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 875
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 260
Living with relatives9 55
Living with non-relatives only 25
Living alone 175
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 615
Total number of private households by household type10 2,205
Census-family households 1,535
One-family-only households11 1,355
Couple-family households12 1,075
Without children 585
With children 490
Lone-parent-family households 280
Other family households13 185
One-family households with persons not in a census family 125
Couple-family households14 70
Without children 30
With children 40
Lone-parent-family households 55
Two-or-more-family households 55
Non-census-family households 670
One-person households 590
Two-or-more-person households 80
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,205
Single-detached house 2,075
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 55
Other dwelling17 70
Semi-detached house 20
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 15
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 30
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 2,205
1 person 590
2 persons 840
3 persons 450
4 persons 250
5 persons 60
6 or more persons 15
Number of persons in private households 5,035
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,035
  Single responses  5,015
    English  190
    French  4,820
    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  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.  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  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          20
    English and French  15
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 5
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,035
  English only 55
  French only 3,505
  English and French 1,470
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,030
  English 190
  French 4,840
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 4,840
Official language minority (percentage)23 96.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,030
  Single responses 5,010
    English 155
    French 4,860
    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         25
    English and French 25
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 0
    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 5,030
  None 4,765
  Single responses  265
    English  205
    French  50
    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 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  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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