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Census Profile

Owen Sound, Ontario (City)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 21,688
Population in 20061 21,753
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -0.3
Total private dwellings2 10,109
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 9,607
Population density per square kilometre 895.5
Land area (square km) 24.22
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 21,685
0 to 4 years 1,010
5 to 9 years 1,015
10 to 14 years 1,105
15 to 19 years 1,310
15 years 250
16 years 270
17 years 260
18 years 280
19 years 260
20 to 24 years 1,385
25 to 29 years 1,250
30 to 34 years 1,105
35 to 39 years 1,080
40 to 44 years 1,200
45 to 49 years 1,550
50 to 54 years 1,760
55 to 59 years 1,610
60 to 64 years 1,450
65 to 69 years 1,150
70 to 74 years 935
75 to 79 years 990
80 to 84 years 885
85 years and over 895
Median age of the population5 46.3
% of the population aged 15 and over 85.5
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 18,555
Married or living with a common-law partner 9,855
Married (and not separated) 8,055
Living common law 1,800
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 8,700
Single (never legally married) 4,560
Separated 760
Divorced 1,490
Widowed 1,890
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 5,980
Size of census family: 2 persons 3,430
Size of census family: 3 persons 1,250
Size of census family: 4 persons 900
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 400
Total number of census families in private households8 5,980
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 4,815
Married couples 3,910
Without children at home 2,200
With children at home 1,715
1 child 715
2 children 685
3 or more children 315
Common-law couples 900
Without children at home 520
With children at home 380
1 child 195
2 children 125
3 or more children 65
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 1,170
Female parent 960
1 child 575
2 children 290
3 or more children 105
Male parent 205
1 child 140
2 children 50
3 or more children 10
Total children in census families in private households 5,550
Under six years of age 1,195
6 to 14 years 1,915
15 to 17 years 745
18 to 24 years 1,170
25 years and over 520
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 20,700
Number of persons not in census families 4,360
Living with relatives9 285
Living with non-relatives only 660
Living alone 3,410
Number of census family persons 16,340
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 4,065
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 1,500
Living with relatives9 80
Living with non-relatives only 60
Living alone 1,365
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 2,560
Total number of private households by household type10 9,605
Census-family households 5,910
One-family-only households11 5,550
Couple-family households12 4,560
Without children 2,590
With children 1,970
Lone-parent-family households 990
Other family households13 360
One-family households with persons not in a census family 290
Couple-family households14 165
Without children 70
With children 90
Lone-parent-family households 125
Two-or-more-family households 70
Non-census-family households 3,695
One-person households 3,410
Two-or-more-person households 290
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 9,605
Single-detached house 4,995
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 690
Movable dwelling16 25
Other dwelling17 3,895
Semi-detached house 425
Row house 630
Apartment, duplex 235
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 2,595
Other single-attached house 10
Total number of private households by household size18 9,605
1 person 3,410
2 persons 3,435
3 persons 1,330
4 persons 935
5 persons 355
6 or more persons 140
Number of persons in private households 20,700
Average number of persons in private households 2.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 20,865
  Single responses  20,755
    English  19,765
    French  220
    Non-official languages  775
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 10
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  5
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 750
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  10
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  5
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  15
        Chinese, n.o.s.  40
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  5
        Danish  5
        Dutch  130
        Estonian  10
        Finnish  10
        Flemish  5
        Fukien  0
        German  155
        Greek  20
        Gujarati  10
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  15
        Hungarian  20
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  15
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  30
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  5
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  5
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  20
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  30
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  10
        Polish  25
        Portuguese  10
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  10
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  5
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  10
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  25
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  30
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  5
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 15
  Multiple responses          110
    English and French  40
    English and non-official language  65
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language 5
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 20,865
  English only 19,565
  French only 5
  English and French 1,270
  Neither English nor French 25
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 20,865
  English 20,630
  French 195
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 25
Official language minority (number)23 205
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 20,865
  Single responses 20,750
    English 20,475
    French 50
    Non-official languages 220
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw   0
        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 225
        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 5
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 10
        Chinese, n.o.s. 30
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 5
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 15
        Greek 10
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 5
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 25
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 5
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 15
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 15
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 5
        Polish 10
        Portuguese 5
        Romanian 0
        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. 5
        Sindhi 5
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 10
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 5
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 5
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 5
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 5
        Urdu 5
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         115
    English and French 20
    English and non-official language 95
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 5
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 20,860
  None 20,220
  Single responses  635
    English  140
    French  200
    Non-official languages  295
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  5
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  5
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 275
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  15
        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.  10
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  5
        Dutch  50
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  60
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  5
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  5
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  10
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  10
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  5
        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)  15
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  5
        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  30
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  10
        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          15
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  15
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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