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Cariboo F, British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 4,564
Population in 20061 4,384
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 4.1
Total private dwellings2 2,191
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,901
Population density per square kilometre 0.5
Land area (square km) 9,760.31
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 4,565
0 to 4 years 185
5 to 9 years 220
10 to 14 years 305
15 to 19 years 295
15 years 65
16 years 60
17 years 55
18 years 65
19 years 50
20 to 24 years 170
25 to 29 years 155
30 to 34 years 225
35 to 39 years 250
40 to 44 years 290
45 to 49 years 395
50 to 54 years 490
55 to 59 years 480
60 to 64 years 410
65 to 69 years 310
70 to 74 years 175
75 to 79 years 125
80 to 84 years 65
85 years and over 30
Median age of the population5 47.5
% of the population aged 15 and over 84.4
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 3,855
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,695
Married (and not separated) 2,195
Living common law 500
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,160
Single (never legally married) 710
Separated 105
Divorced 200
Widowed 135
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,480
Size of census family: 2 persons 910
Size of census family: 3 persons 245
Size of census family: 4 persons 225
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 95
Total number of census families in private households8 1,475
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,335
Married couples 1,090
Without children at home 670
With children at home 415
1 child 165
2 children 165
3 or more children 85
Common-law couples 250
Without children at home 155
With children at home 95
1 child 40
2 children 40
3 or more children 10
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 140
Female parent 100
1 child 55
2 children 25
3 or more children 15
Male parent 45
1 child 30
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,165
Under six years of age 225
6 to 14 years 475
15 to 17 years 175
18 to 24 years 195
25 years and over 100
Average number of children at home per census family 0.8
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 4,555
Number of persons not in census families 565
Living with relatives9 70
Living with non-relatives only 105
Living alone 395
Number of census family persons 3,985
Average number of persons per census family 2.7
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 700
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 155
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 15
Living alone 130
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 550
Total number of private households by household type10 1,900
Census-family households 1,460
One-family-only households11 1,385
Couple-family households12 1,270
Without children 785
With children 485
Lone-parent-family households 110
Other family households13 75
One-family households with persons not in a census family 55
Couple-family households14 45
Without children 25
With children 15
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 20
Non-census-family households 445
One-person households 395
Two-or-more-person households 45
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,900
Single-detached house 1,575
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 315
Other dwelling17 15
Semi-detached house 0
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 10
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 1,905
1 person 395
2 persons 890
3 persons 260
4 persons 230
5 persons 85
6 or more persons 30
Number of persons in private households 4,550
Average number of persons in private households 2.4
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,560
  Single responses  4,535
    English  4,080
    French  70
    Non-official languages  380
      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 365
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  5
        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  10
        Danish  5
        Dutch  20
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  10
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  235
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  10
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  5
        Khmer (Cambodian)  5
        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  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  15
        Portuguese  5
        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.  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  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  5
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 15
  Multiple responses          30
    English and French  5
    English and non-official language  25
    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 4,560
  English only 4,380
  French only 0
  English and French 175
  Neither English nor French 5
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,565
  English 4,490
  French 55
  English and French 10
  Neither English nor French 5
Official language minority (number)23 60
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.3
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,560
  Single responses 4,510
    English 4,400
    French 10
    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 100
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 5
        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 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 70
        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) 5
        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 5
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 5
        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         55
    English and French 5
    English and non-official language 50
    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 4,560
  None 4,375
  Single responses  180
    English  60
    French  25
    Non-official languages  95
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        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 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.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  5
        Danish  0
        Dutch  5
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  45
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  5
        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  5
        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  5
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  5
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  5
        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 5
  Multiple responses          10
    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.