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Census Profile

Cochrane, Ontario (Town)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 5,340
Population in 20061 5,487
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -2.7
Total private dwellings2 2,407
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,245
Population density per square kilometre 9.9
Land area (square km) 539.02
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 5,340
0 to 4 years 280
5 to 9 years 310
10 to 14 years 320
15 to 19 years 370
15 years 65
16 years 75
17 years 80
18 years 80
19 years 70
20 to 24 years 280
25 to 29 years 275
30 to 34 years 300
35 to 39 years 315
40 to 44 years 340
45 to 49 years 440
50 to 54 years 440
55 to 59 years 425
60 to 64 years 355
65 to 69 years 280
70 to 74 years 230
75 to 79 years 180
80 to 84 years 115
85 years and over 95
Median age of the population5 43.3
% of the population aged 15 and over 83.0
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 4,435
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,825
Married (and not separated) 2,250
Living common law 575
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,605
Single (never legally married) 965
Separated 140
Divorced 175
Widowed 330
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,610
Size of census family: 2 persons 885
Size of census family: 3 persons 320
Size of census family: 4 persons 280
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 125
Total number of census families in private households8 1,610
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,400
Married couples 1,115
Without children at home 625
With children at home 495
1 child 190
2 children 210
3 or more children 90
Common-law couples 285
Without children at home 135
With children at home 150
1 child 65
2 children 60
3 or more children 25
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 210
Female parent 150
1 child 95
2 children 50
3 or more children 10
Male parent 55
1 child 35
2 children 20
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,495
Under six years of age 320
6 to 14 years 570
15 to 17 years 205
18 to 24 years 285
25 years and over 110
Average number of children at home per census family 0.9
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 5,295
Number of persons not in census families 795
Living with relatives9 90
Living with non-relatives only 75
Living alone 635
Number of census family persons 4,505
Average number of persons per census family 2.8
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 860
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 310
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 275
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 550
Total number of private households by household type10 2,245
Census-family households 1,570
One-family-only households11 1,480
Couple-family households12 1,315
Without children 720
With children 595
Lone-parent-family households 165
Other family households13 90
One-family households with persons not in a census family 55
Couple-family households14 40
Without children 15
With children 30
Lone-parent-family households 20
Two-or-more-family households 35
Non-census-family households 670
One-person households 635
Two-or-more-person households 35
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,245
Single-detached house 1,560
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 115
Other dwelling17 565
Semi-detached house 205
Row house 15
Apartment, duplex 90
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 250
Other single-attached house 10
Total number of private households by household size18 2,245
1 person 635
2 persons 855
3 persons 300
4 persons 290
5 persons 130
6 or more persons 35
Number of persons in private households 5,295
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,295
  Single responses  5,220
    English  2,935
    French  2,080
    Non-official languages  205
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 115
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  105
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  5
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 85
        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.  25
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  10
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  10
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  5
        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  5
        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  5
        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  5
        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 5
  Multiple responses          75
    English and French  65
    English and non-official language  10
    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 5,295
  English only 2,310
  French only 185
  English and French 2,790
  Neither English nor French 10
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,295
  English 3,200
  French 2,070
  English and French 20
  Neither English nor French 5
Official language minority (number)23 2,080
Official language minority (percentage)23 39.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 5,295
  Single responses 5,180
    English 3,615
    French 1,520
    Non-official languages 45
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 15
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 15
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 30
        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. 20
        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         115
    English and French 90
    English and non-official language 20
    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 5,295
  None 3,830
  Single responses  1,465
    English  720
    French  640
    Non-official languages  110
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 85
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  80
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 20
        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.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        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  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 5
  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.

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