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Census Profile

Joliette, Quebec (Ville)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 19,621
Population in 20061 19,044
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 3.0
Total private dwellings2 9,919
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 9,437
Population density per square kilometre 860.3
Land area (square km) 22.81
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 19,620
0 to 4 years 965
5 to 9 years 755
10 to 14 years 800
15 to 19 years 1,245
15 years 200
16 years 220
17 years 235
18 years 300
19 years 295
20 to 24 years 1,420
25 to 29 years 1,285
30 to 34 years 1,125
35 to 39 years 885
40 to 44 years 955
45 to 49 years 1,435
50 to 54 years 1,700
55 to 59 years 1,555
60 to 64 years 1,345
65 to 69 years 1,165
70 to 74 years 905
75 to 79 years 745
80 to 84 years 655
85 years and over 670
Median age of the population5 46.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 87.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 17,105
Married or living with a common-law partner 7,755
Married (and not separated) 4,395
Living common law 3,355
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 9,345
Single (never legally married) 5,750
Separated 275
Divorced 1,815
Widowed 1,505
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 4,960
Size of census family: 2 persons 2,950
Size of census family: 3 persons 1,055
Size of census family: 4 persons 670
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 290
Total number of census families in private households8 4,960
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 3,775
Married couples 2,100
Without children at home 1,295
With children at home 805
1 child 350
2 children 305
3 or more children 155
Common-law couples 1,680
Without children at home 875
With children at home 800
1 child 395
2 children 290
3 or more children 110
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 1,180
Female parent 925
1 child 585
2 children 255
3 or more children 85
Male parent 255
1 child 185
2 children 55
3 or more children 15
Total children in census families in private households 4,560
Under six years of age 1,090
6 to 14 years 1,405
15 to 17 years 615
18 to 24 years 975
25 years and over 465
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 18,720
Number of persons not in census families 5,425
Living with relatives9 450
Living with non-relatives only 925
Living alone 4,050
Number of census family persons 13,295
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 3,355
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 1,550
Living with relatives9 130
Living with non-relatives only 90
Living alone 1,335
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,805
Total number of private households by household type10 9,435
Census-family households 4,920
One-family-only households11 4,620
Couple-family households12 3,595
Without children 2,070
With children 1,525
Lone-parent-family households 1,025
Other family households13 295
One-family households with persons not in a census family 255
Couple-family households14 130
Without children 75
With children 60
Lone-parent-family households 120
Two-or-more-family households 40
Non-census-family households 4,520
One-person households 4,050
Two-or-more-person households 470
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 9,435
Single-detached house 2,850
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 145
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 6,440
Semi-detached house 275
Row house 230
Apartment, duplex 1,150
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 4,690
Other single-attached house 85
Total number of private households by household size18 9,435
1 person 4,050
2 persons 3,155
3 persons 1,145
4 persons 710
5 persons 255
6 or more persons 125
Number of persons in private households 18,715
Average number of persons in private households 2.0
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,245
  Single responses  19,090
    English  205
    French  18,055
    Non-official languages  825
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 110
        Atikamekw    105
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 700
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  20
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  75
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  5
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  5
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  10
        Chinese, n.o.s.  10
        Creoles  5
        Croatian  5
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  5
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  10
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  10
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  185
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  35
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  10
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        Serbo-Croatian  10
        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  225
        Swahili  20
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  5
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 20
  Multiple responses          155
    English and French  90
    English and non-official language  15
    French and non-official language  55
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,245
  English only 75
  French only 13,875
  English and French 5,145
  Neither English nor French 155
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,245
  English 270
  French 18,730
  English and French 100
  Neither English nor French 150
Official language minority (number)23 315
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.6
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,245
  Single responses 19,000
    English 115
    French 18,375
    Non-official languages 510
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 50
        Atikamekw   50
        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 460
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 15
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 25
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 10
        Creoles 5
        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 5
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 5
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 0
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 180
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 0
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 5
        Rundi (Kirundi) 5
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 5
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 10
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 5
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 180
        Swahili 5
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 5
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 5
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses         245
    English and French 60
    English and non-official language 10
    French and non-official language 160
    English, French and non-official language 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 19,245
  None 18,235
  Single responses  975
    English  500
    French  225
    Non-official languages  245
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 30
        Atikamekw    30
        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 205
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  30
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  5
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  10
        Croatian  5
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  10
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  5
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  10
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  5
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  20
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        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  70
        Swahili  10
        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 10
  Multiple responses          35
    English and French  10
    English and non-official language  25
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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