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Gros-Mécatina, Quebec (Municipalité)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 499
Population in 20061 566
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -11.8
Total private dwellings2 270
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 220
Population density per square kilometre 0.6
Land area (square km) 804.80
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 500
0 to 4 years 20
5 to 9 years 15
10 to 14 years 35
15 to 19 years 30
15 years 5
16 years 5
17 years 5
18 years 10
19 years 5
20 to 24 years 15
25 to 29 years 5
30 to 34 years 25
35 to 39 years 45
40 to 44 years 35
45 to 49 years 45
50 to 54 years 45
55 to 59 years 40
60 to 64 years 40
65 to 69 years 40
70 to 74 years 25
75 to 79 years 15
80 to 84 years 10
85 years and over 10
Median age of the population5 47.1
% of the population aged 15 and over 86.6
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 435
Married or living with a common-law partner 300
Married (and not separated) 235
Living common law 60
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 130
Single (never legally married) 90
Separated 0
Divorced 5
Widowed 35
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 165
Size of census family: 2 persons 95
Size of census family: 3 persons 35
Size of census family: 4 persons 25
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 5
Total number of census families in private households8 165
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 150
Married couples 115
Without children at home 70
With children at home 50
1 child 30
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Common-law couples 30
Without children at home 15
With children at home 15
1 child 5
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 15
Female parent 15
1 child 10
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Male parent 0
1 child 5
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 115
Under six years of age 20
6 to 14 years 45
15 to 17 years 15
18 to 24 years 20
25 years and over 10
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 495
Number of persons not in census families 70
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 55
Number of census family persons 430
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 105
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 35
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 25
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 70
Total number of private households by household type10 220
Census-family households 160
One-family-only households11 155
Couple-family households12 145
Without children 80
With children 60
Lone-parent-family households 10
Other family households13 10
One-family households with persons not in a census family 5
Couple-family households14 0
Without children 5
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 0
Two-or-more-family households 0
Non-census-family households 60
One-person households 50
Two-or-more-person households 5
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 220
Single-detached house 205
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 0
Other dwelling17 15
Semi-detached house 5
Row house 5
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 5
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 220
1 person 50
2 persons 95
3 persons 40
4 persons 25
5 persons 5
6 or more persons 0
Number of persons in private households 500
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 500
  Single responses  500
    English  470
    French  25
    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          0
    English and French  0
    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 500
  English only 405
  French only 0
  English and French 95
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 500
  English 465
  French 30
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 470
Official language minority (percentage)23 94.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 495
  Single responses 500
    English 485
    French 15
    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         0
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 0
    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 500
  None 470
  Single responses  25
    English  10
    French  20
    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          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.