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Colwood, British Columbia (City)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 ...
Population in 20061 ...
2006 to 2011 population change (%) ...
Total private dwellings2 ...
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 ...
Population density per square kilometre ...
Land area (square km) ...
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 7,930
0 to 4 years 510
5 to 9 years 480
10 to 14 years 495
15 to 19 years 540
15 years 115
16 years 90
17 years 120
18 years 100
19 years 110
20 to 24 years 425
25 to 29 years 520
30 to 34 years 545
35 to 39 years 550
40 to 44 years 615
45 to 49 years 655
50 to 54 years 600
55 to 59 years 540
60 to 64 years 465
65 to 69 years 375
70 to 74 years 245
75 to 79 years 175
80 to 84 years 125
85 years and over 70
Median age of the population5 39.0
% of the population aged 15 and over 81.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 6,445
Married or living with a common-law partner 4,285
Married (and not separated) 3,615
Living common law 670
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 2,160
Single (never legally married) 1,590
Separated 135
Divorced 300
Widowed 140
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 ...
Size of census family: 2 persons ...
Size of census family: 3 persons ...
Size of census family: 4 persons ...
Size of census family: 5 or more persons ...
Total number of census families in private households8 ...
Total couple families by family structure and number of children ...
Married couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Common-law couples ...
Without children at home ...
With children at home ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children ...
Female parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Male parent ...
1 child ...
2 children ...
3 or more children ...
Total children in census families in private households ...
Under six years of age ...
6 to 14 years ...
15 to 17 years ...
18 to 24 years ...
25 years and over ...
Average number of children at home per census family ...
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 7,885
Number of persons not in census families 985
Living with relatives9 140
Living with non-relatives only 345
Living alone 505
Number of census family persons 6,900
Average number of persons per census family ...
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 965
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 160
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 115
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 805
Total number of private households by household type10 ...
Census-family households ...
One-family-only households11 ...
Couple-family households12 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Other family households13 ...
One-family households with persons not in a census family ...
Couple-family households14 ...
Without children ...
With children ...
Lone-parent-family households ...
Two-or-more-family households ...
Non-census-family households ...
One-person households ...
Two-or-more-person households ...
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 ...
Single-detached house ...
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys ...
Movable dwelling16 ...
Other dwelling17 ...
Semi-detached house ...
Row house ...
Apartment, duplex ...
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys ...
Other single-attached house ...
Total number of private households by household size18 ...
1 person ...
2 persons ...
3 persons ...
4 persons ...
5 persons ...
6 or more persons ...
Number of persons in private households ...
Average number of persons in private households ...
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,910
  Single responses  7,850
    English  7,180
    French  185
    Non-official languages  485
      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 470
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  5
        Amharic  5
        Arabic  5
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  5
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  20
        Chinese, n.o.s.  25
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  5
        Danish  5
        Dutch  40
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  75
        Greek  5
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  10
        Ilocano  5
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  20
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  20
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  10
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  15
        Pashto  5
        Persian (Farsi)  15
        Polish  30
        Portuguese  25
        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)  5
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  35
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  20
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  5
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  5
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  10
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses          55
    English and French  20
    English and non-official language  35
    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 7,910
  English only 7,315
  French only 10
  English and French 575
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,910
  English 7,725
  French 170
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 10
Official language minority (number)23 175
Official language minority (percentage)23 2.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,905
  Single responses 7,835
    English 7,625
    French 75
    Non-official languages 135
      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 135
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 5
        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. 10
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 5
        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 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) 5
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 5
        Polish 5
        Portuguese 10
        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. 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 20
        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 5
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses         80
    English and French 15
    English and non-official language 60
    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 7,910
  None 7,490
  Single responses  415
    English  110
    French  100
    Non-official languages  205
      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 195
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  5
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  10
        Chinese, n.o.s.  5
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  0
        Danish  5
        Dutch  15
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  35
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  10
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  5
        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)  10
        Polish  5
        Portuguese  10
        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  30
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  10
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  5
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 15
  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.