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La Malbaie, Quebec (Ville)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 8,862
Population in 20061 8,959
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -1.1
Total private dwellings2 4,455
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 3,886
Population density per square kilometre 19.3
Land area (square km) 459.34
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 8,860
0 to 4 years 410
5 to 9 years 360
10 to 14 years 445
15 to 19 years 460
15 years 95
16 years 90
17 years 100
18 years 95
19 years 90
20 to 24 years 450
25 to 29 years 430
30 to 34 years 480
35 to 39 years 425
40 to 44 years 530
45 to 49 years 665
50 to 54 years 890
55 to 59 years 800
60 to 64 years 740
65 to 69 years 585
70 to 74 years 415
75 to 79 years 300
80 to 84 years 260
85 years and over 210
Median age of the population5 48.2
% of the population aged 15 and over 86.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 7,650
Married or living with a common-law partner 4,570
Married (and not separated) 2,740
Living common law 1,825
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 3,075
Single (never legally married) 1,940
Separated 105
Divorced 475
Widowed 560
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 2,615
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,510
Size of census family: 3 persons 555
Size of census family: 4 persons 410
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 140
Total number of census families in private households8 2,615
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 2,230
Married couples 1,320
Without children at home 830
With children at home 490
1 child 255
2 children 180
3 or more children 55
Common-law couples 910
Without children at home 420
With children at home 485
1 child 205
2 children 210
3 or more children 70
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 385
Female parent 275
1 child 180
2 children 75
3 or more children 25
Male parent 115
1 child 80
2 children 25
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 2,220
Under six years of age 470
6 to 14 years 720
15 to 17 years 265
18 to 24 years 470
25 years and over 290
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 8,670
Number of persons not in census families 1,605
Living with relatives9 245
Living with non-relatives only 185
Living alone 1,180
Number of census family persons 7,065
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,660
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 635
Living with relatives9 130
Living with non-relatives only 40
Living alone 465
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,020
Total number of private households by household type10 3,885
Census-family households 2,590
One-family-only households11 2,445
Couple-family households12 2,110
Without children 1,190
With children 915
Lone-parent-family households 335
Other family households13 150
One-family households with persons not in a census family 125
Couple-family households14 90
Without children 45
With children 45
Lone-parent-family households 35
Two-or-more-family households 25
Non-census-family households 1,295
One-person households 1,180
Two-or-more-person households 115
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 3,885
Single-detached house 2,510
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 1,375
Semi-detached house 190
Row house 30
Apartment, duplex 355
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 770
Other single-attached house 25
Total number of private households by household size18 3,885
1 person 1,180
2 persons 1,500
3 persons 590
4 persons 435
5 persons 130
6 or more persons 50
Number of persons in private households 8,670
Average number of persons in private households 2.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 8,790
  Single responses  8,765
    English  60
    French  8,670
    Non-official languages  30
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  5
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 30
        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.  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  5
        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  10
        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  5
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 8,790
  English only 15
  French only 7,240
  English and French 1,530
  Neither English nor French 10
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 8,785
  English 70
  French 8,710
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 10
Official language minority (number)23 70
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 8,785
  Single responses 8,770
    English 45
    French 8,715
    Non-official languages 15
      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. 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. 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 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 8,790
  None 8,610
  Single responses  175
    English  110
    French  30
    Non-official languages  30
      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 25
        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  15
        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  0
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.