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Census Profile

Columbia-Shuswap C, British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 7,662
Population in 20061 7,695
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -0.4
Total private dwellings2 4,807
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 3,406
Population density per square kilometre 15.1
Land area (square km) 506.34
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 7,660
0 to 4 years 245
5 to 9 years 280
10 to 14 years 305
15 to 19 years 360
15 years 75
16 years 85
17 years 75
18 years 55
19 years 70
20 to 24 years 220
25 to 29 years 215
30 to 34 years 270
35 to 39 years 285
40 to 44 years 340
45 to 49 years 560
50 to 54 years 650
55 to 59 years 790
60 to 64 years 955
65 to 69 years 835
70 to 74 years 620
75 to 79 years 375
80 to 84 years 230
85 years and over 110
Median age of the population5 55.6
% of the population aged 15 and over 89.1
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 6,825
Married or living with a common-law partner 5,065
Married (and not separated) 4,365
Living common law 695
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,760
Single (never legally married) 925
Separated 130
Divorced 350
Widowed 350
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 2,665
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,945
Size of census family: 3 persons 325
Size of census family: 4 persons 265
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 125
Total number of census families in private households8 2,665
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 2,495
Married couples 2,145
Without children at home 1,590
With children at home 560
1 child 230
2 children 220
3 or more children 110
Common-law couples 350
Without children at home 250
With children at home 100
1 child 50
2 children 35
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 165
Female parent 125
1 child 80
2 children 40
3 or more children 10
Male parent 40
1 child 25
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total children in census families in private households 1,465
Under six years of age 300
6 to 14 years 520
15 to 17 years 225
18 to 24 years 260
25 years and over 160
Average number of children at home per census family 0.5
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 7,600
Number of persons not in census families 975
Living with relatives9 85
Living with non-relatives only 185
Living alone 705
Number of census family persons 6,620
Average number of persons per census family 2.5
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 2,170
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 420
Living with relatives9 30
Living with non-relatives only 35
Living alone 355
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 1,750
Total number of private households by household type10 3,405
Census-family households 2,615
One-family-only households11 2,500
Couple-family households12 2,365
Without children 1,755
With children 610
Lone-parent-family households 135
Other family households13 120
One-family households with persons not in a census family 75
Couple-family households14 60
Without children 30
With children 25
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 45
Non-census-family households 790
One-person households 705
Two-or-more-person households 85
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 3,405
Single-detached house 3,000
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 5
Movable dwelling16 280
Other dwelling17 115
Semi-detached house 55
Row house 40
Apartment, duplex 15
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 0
Other single-attached house 5
Total number of private households by household size18 3,405
1 person 705
2 persons 1,920
3 persons 330
4 persons 295
5 persons 100
6 or more persons 55
Number of persons in private households 7,600
Average number of persons in private households 2.2
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,650
  Single responses  7,605
    English  6,910
    French  105
    Non-official languages  590
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        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 590
        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  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  5
        Czech  15
        Danish  15
        Dutch  75
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  310
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  15
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  5
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  5
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  10
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  15
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  25
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  5
        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  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  5
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  40
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          45
    English and French  10
    English and non-official language  35
    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 7,650
  English only 7,305
  French only 0
  English and French 335
  Neither English nor French 15
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,655
  English 7,540
  French 85
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 15
Official language minority (number)23 90
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.2
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 7,650
  Single responses 7,590
    English 7,475
    French 20
    Non-official languages 100
      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 95
        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 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 5
        Danish 0
        Dutch 10
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 60
        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 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 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         65
    English and French 0
    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 7,655
  None 7,360
  Single responses  285
    English  60
    French  50
    Non-official languages  170
      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 175
        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  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  10
        Danish  5
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  65
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  5
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        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  5
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  5
        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  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          10
    English and French  0
    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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