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Census Profile

Centre Wellington, Ontario (Township)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 26,693
Population in 20061 26,049
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 2.5
Total private dwellings2 10,729
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 9,945
Population density per square kilometre 65.5
Land area (square km) 407.53
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 26,695
0 to 4 years 1,515
5 to 9 years 1,610
10 to 14 years 1,730
15 to 19 years 1,920
15 years 370
16 years 370
17 years 415
18 years 365
19 years 400
20 to 24 years 1,545
25 to 29 years 1,195
30 to 34 years 1,300
35 to 39 years 1,565
40 to 44 years 1,735
45 to 49 years 2,235
50 to 54 years 2,175
55 to 59 years 1,900
60 to 64 years 1,740
65 to 69 years 1,335
70 to 74 years 1,080
75 to 79 years 875
80 to 84 years 650
85 years and over 590
Median age of the population5 42.7
% of the population aged 15 and over 81.8
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 21,840
Married or living with a common-law partner 14,170
Married (and not separated) 12,485
Living common law 1,685
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 7,665
Single (never legally married) 4,795
Separated 590
Divorced 975
Widowed 1,305
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 7,850
Size of census family: 2 persons 3,910
Size of census family: 3 persons 1,460
Size of census family: 4 persons 1,645
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 830
Total number of census families in private households8 7,850
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 6,995
Married couples 6,155
Without children at home 2,920
With children at home 3,240
1 child 1,065
2 children 1,430
3 or more children 745
Common-law couples 840
Without children at home 475
With children at home 365
1 child 150
2 children 150
3 or more children 60
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 855
Female parent 635
1 child 375
2 children 180
3 or more children 75
Male parent 215
1 child 145
2 children 60
3 or more children 15
Total children in census families in private households 8,520
Under six years of age 1,805
6 to 14 years 3,030
15 to 17 years 1,135
18 to 24 years 1,900
25 years and over 650
Average number of children at home per census family 1.1
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 26,210
Number of persons not in census families 2,845
Living with relatives9 350
Living with non-relatives only 415
Living alone 2,080
Number of census family persons 23,370
Average number of persons per census family 3.0
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 4,130
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 1,100
Living with relatives9 130
Living with non-relatives only 55
Living alone 920
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 3,030
Total number of private households by household type10 9,945
Census-family households 7,695
One-family-only households11 7,210
Couple-family households12 6,545
Without children 3,170
With children 3,380
Lone-parent-family households 670
Other family households13 485
One-family households with persons not in a census family 330
Couple-family households14 220
Without children 90
With children 130
Lone-parent-family households 105
Two-or-more-family households 155
Non-census-family households 2,250
One-person households 2,075
Two-or-more-person households 170
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 9,945
Single-detached house 7,560
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 5
Movable dwelling16 200
Other dwelling17 2,175
Semi-detached house 365
Row house 360
Apartment, duplex 90
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 1,345
Other single-attached house 20
Total number of private households by household size18 9,945
1 person 2,080
2 persons 3,705
3 persons 1,490
4 persons 1,680
5 persons 640
6 or more persons 360
Number of persons in private households 26,210
Average number of persons in private households 2.6
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 26,350
  Single responses  26,215
    English  24,235
    French  255
    Non-official languages  1,720
      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 1,680
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  5
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  5
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  20
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  25
        Czech  15
        Danish  20
        Dutch  455
        Estonian  10
        Finnish  15
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  540
        Greek  15
        Gujarati  10
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  35
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  105
        Japanese  10
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  5
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  10
        Mandarin  10
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  15
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  60
        Portuguese  35
        Romanian  45
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  10
        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)  5
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  5
        Slovak  10
        Slovenian  10
        Somali  0
        Spanish  45
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  10
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  25
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  25
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 45
  Multiple responses          140
    English and French  40
    English and non-official language  95
    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 26,350
  English only 24,710
  French only 10
  English and French 1,600
  Neither English nor French 25
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 26,345
  English 26,075
  French 230
  English and French 20
  Neither English nor French 25
Official language minority (number)23 240
Official language minority (percentage)23 0.9
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 26,345
  Single responses 26,170
    English 25,660
    French 40
    Non-official languages 470
      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 450
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 5
        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 5
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 10
        Czech 5
        Danish 0
        Dutch 45
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 5
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 215
        Greek 5
        Gujarati 5
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 5
        Ilocano 5
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 10
        Japanese 5
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 10
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 5
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 10
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 15
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 40
        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 5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 10
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 5
        Urdu 5
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 15
  Multiple responses         180
    English and French 15
    English and non-official language 165
    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 26,350
  None 25,320
  Single responses  1,005
    English  255
    French  210
    Non-official languages  540
      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 525
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  5
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  5
        Danish  10
        Dutch  160
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  125
        Greek  10
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  5
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  10
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  25
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  5
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  5
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  5
        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  15
        Portuguese  20
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  5
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        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  5
        Somali  0
        Spanish  45
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        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          20
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  5
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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