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Amherst, Quebec (Canton (municipalité de))
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 ...
Population in 20061 ...
2006 to 2011 population change (%) ...
Total private dwellings2 ...
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 ...
Population density per square kilometre ...
Land area (square km) ...
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 735
0 to 4 years 30
5 to 9 years 30
10 to 14 years 25
15 to 19 years 30
15 years 5
16 years 5
17 years 0
18 years 10
19 years 5
20 to 24 years 20
25 to 29 years 25
30 to 34 years 45
35 to 39 years 25
40 to 44 years 35
45 to 49 years 55
50 to 54 years 70
55 to 59 years 90
60 to 64 years 80
65 to 69 years 65
70 to 74 years 55
75 to 79 years 25
80 to 84 years 15
85 years and over 10
Median age of the population5 52.9
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 650
Married or living with a common-law partner 425
Married (and not separated) 260
Living common law 165
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 225
Single (never legally married) 115
Separated 10
Divorced 45
Widowed 55
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 ...
Size of census family: 2 persons ...
Size of census family: 3 persons ...
Size of census family: 4 persons ...
Size of census family: 5 or more persons ...
Total number of census families in private households8 ...
Total couple families by family structure and number of children ...
Married couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Common-law couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children ...
Female parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Male parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total children in census families in private households ...
Under six years of age ...
6 to 14 years ...
15 to 17 years ...
18 to 24 years ...
25 years and over ...
Average number of children at home per census family ...
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 730
Number of persons not in census families 130
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 110
Number of census family persons 600
Average number of persons per census family ...
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 165
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 55
Living with relatives9 0
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 50
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 110
Total number of private households by household type10 ...
Census-family households ...
One-family-only households11 ...
Couple-family households12 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Other family households13 ...
One-family households with persons not in a census family ...
Couple-family households14 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Two-or-more-family households ...
Non-census-family households ...
One-person households ...
Two-or-more-person households ...
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 ...
Single-detached house ...
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys ...
Movable dwelling16 ...
Other dwelling17 ...
Semi-detached house ...
Row house ...
Apartment, duplex ...
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys ...
Other single-attached house ...
Total number of private households by household size18 ...
1 person ...
2 persons ...
3 persons ...
4 persons ...
5 persons ...
6 or more persons ...
Number of persons in private households ...
Average number of persons in private households ...
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 735
  Single responses  725
    English  30
    French  675
    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  0
        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  5
        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  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          5
    English and French  5
    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 730
  English only 10
  French only 455
  English and French 265
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 735
  English 45
  French 680
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 50
Official language minority (percentage)23 6.8
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 735
  Single responses 725
    English 40
    French 680
    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 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 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         10
    English and French 5
    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 730
  None 670
  Single responses  60
    English  35
    French  15
    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  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  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          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.