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Shuniah, Ontario (Township)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 2,737
Population in 20061 2,913
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -6.0
Total private dwellings2 2,156
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,165
Population density per square kilometre 4.8
Land area (square km) 570.98
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 2,735
0 to 4 years 80
5 to 9 years 85
10 to 14 years 130
15 to 19 years 155
15 years 25
16 years 35
17 years 35
18 years 30
19 years 35
20 to 24 years 130
25 to 29 years 95
30 to 34 years 105
35 to 39 years 125
40 to 44 years 155
45 to 49 years 235
50 to 54 years 270
55 to 59 years 360
60 to 64 years 285
65 to 69 years 195
70 to 74 years 145
75 to 79 years 95
80 to 84 years 70
85 years and over 30
Median age of the population5 51.7
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 2,445
Married or living with a common-law partner 1,720
Married (and not separated) 1,485
Living common law 245
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 725
Single (never legally married) 470
Separated 50
Divorced 105
Widowed 100
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 925
Size of census family: 2 persons 580
Size of census family: 3 persons 170
Size of census family: 4 persons 135
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 40
Total number of census families in private households8 930
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 855
Married couples 735
Without children at home 450
With children at home 285
1 child 125
2 children 120
3 or more children 40
Common-law couples 120
Without children at home 80
With children at home 40
1 child 25
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 75
Female parent 55
1 child 35
2 children 15
3 or more children 5
Male parent 20
1 child 10
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 650
Under six years of age 95
6 to 14 years 185
15 to 17 years 90
18 to 24 years 180
25 years and over 105
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 2,730
Number of persons not in census families 300
Living with relatives9 35
Living with non-relatives only 25
Living alone 235
Number of census family persons 2,430
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 535
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 95
Living with relatives9 10
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 80
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 435
Total number of private households by household type10 1,165
Census-family households 920
One-family-only households11 875
Couple-family households12 820
Without children 515
With children 305
Lone-parent-family households 55
Other family households13 40
One-family households with persons not in a census family 30
Couple-family households14 25
Without children 10
With children 10
Lone-parent-family households 10
Two-or-more-family households 15
Non-census-family households 245
One-person households 235
Two-or-more-person households 15
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,165
Single-detached house 1,105
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 50
Other dwelling17 10
Semi-detached house 0
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 0
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 1,165
1 person 240
2 persons 565
3 persons 170
4 persons 135
5 persons 45
6 or more persons 15
Number of persons in private households 2,725
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,735
  Single responses  2,720
    English  2,415
    French  95
    Non-official languages  215
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  5
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 205
        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  5
        Danish  5
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  70
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  30
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  25
        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  15
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        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)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  5
        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  20
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          15
    English and French  0
    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 2,740
  English only 2,505
  French only 5
  English and French 220
  Neither English nor French 10
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,735
  English 2,645
  French 90
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 10
Official language minority (number)23 85
Official language minority (percentage)23 3.1
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 2,740
  Single responses 2,720
    English 2,640
    French 35
    Non-official languages 45
      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 40
        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 5
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 15
        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 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 10
        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 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         15
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 10
    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 2,735
  None 2,625
  Single responses  110
    English  15
    French  35
    Non-official languages  55
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    0
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  5
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 50
        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  20
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  10
        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  5
        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  5
        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  5
        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  5
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.