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Census Profile

Cariboo G, British Columbia (Regional district electoral area)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 4,955
Population in 20061 4,974
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -0.4
Total private dwellings2 2,550
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 2,121
Population density per square kilometre 1.8
Land area (square km) 2,682.76
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 4,955
0 to 4 years 225
5 to 9 years 235
10 to 14 years 275
15 to 19 years 320
15 years 70
16 years 60
17 years 75
18 years 50
19 years 60
20 to 24 years 145
25 to 29 years 160
30 to 34 years 195
35 to 39 years 245
40 to 44 years 275
45 to 49 years 400
50 to 54 years 425
55 to 59 years 490
60 to 64 years 530
65 to 69 years 425
70 to 74 years 290
75 to 79 years 185
80 to 84 years 100
85 years and over 40
Median age of the population5 50.1
% of the population aged 15 and over 85.2
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 4,220
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,930
Married (and not separated) 2,415
Living common law 520
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,295
Single (never legally married) 695
Separated 120
Divorced 265
Widowed 215
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,605
Size of census family: 2 persons 1,060
Size of census family: 3 persons 225
Size of census family: 4 persons 225
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 100
Total number of census families in private households8 1,605
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,450
Married couples 1,195
Without children at home 790
With children at home 405
1 child 150
2 children 180
3 or more children 80
Common-law couples 260
Without children at home 160
With children at home 100
1 child 50
2 children 35
3 or more children 20
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 150
Female parent 115
1 child 80
2 children 20
3 or more children 10
Male parent 40
1 child 30
2 children 5
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,170
Under six years of age 265
6 to 14 years 450
15 to 17 years 195
18 to 24 years 175
25 years and over 85
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 4,930
Number of persons not in census families 700
Living with relatives9 65
Living with non-relatives only 155
Living alone 480
Number of census family persons 4,225
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 1,030
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 250
Living with relatives9 25
Living with non-relatives only 25
Living alone 200
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 780
Total number of private households by household type10 2,120
Census-family households 1,580
One-family-only households11 1,480
Couple-family households12 1,355
Without children 895
With children 465
Lone-parent-family households 130
Other family households13 100
One-family households with persons not in a census family 70
Couple-family households14 60
Without children 25
With children 30
Lone-parent-family households 15
Two-or-more-family households 25
Non-census-family households 540
One-person households 475
Two-or-more-person households 65
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 2,120
Single-detached house 1,890
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 205
Other dwelling17 20
Semi-detached house 10
Row house 10
Apartment, duplex 0
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 5
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 2,120
1 person 475
2 persons 1,030
3 persons 250
4 persons 225
5 persons 90
6 or more persons 45
Number of persons in private households 4,930
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,955
  Single responses  4,910
    English  4,465
    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 370
        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  5
        Danish  10
        Dutch  50
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  210
        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)  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  5
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  5
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  5
        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  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  10
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 10
  Multiple responses          45
    English and French  10
    English and non-official language  30
    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 4,955
  English only 4,730
  French only 5
  English and French 220
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,955
  English 4,900
  French 45
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 5
Official language minority (number)23 50
Official language minority (percentage)23 1.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,955
  Single responses 4,920
    English 4,805
    French 5
    Non-official languages 105
      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 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 10
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 75
        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) 5
        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 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         35
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 40
    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 4,955
  None 4,760
  Single responses  185
    English  55
    French  25
    Non-official languages  105
      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 105
        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  10
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  65
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  10
        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  5
        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  0
    French and non-official language  10
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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