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Census Profile

Vanderhoof, British Columbia (District municipality)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 4,480
Population in 20061 4,064
2006 to 2011 population change (%) 10.2
Total private dwellings2 1,791
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 1,705
Population density per square kilometre 81.7
Land area (square km) 54.83
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 4,480
0 to 4 years 330
5 to 9 years 305
10 to 14 years 385
15 to 19 years 335
15 years 60
16 years 70
17 years 75
18 years 65
19 years 55
20 to 24 years 270
25 to 29 years 260
30 to 34 years 290
35 to 39 years 290
40 to 44 years 295
45 to 49 years 320
50 to 54 years 340
55 to 59 years 300
60 to 64 years 215
65 to 69 years 135
70 to 74 years 135
75 to 79 years 100
80 to 84 years 105
85 years and over 70
Median age of the population5 36.0
% of the population aged 15 and over 77.3
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 3,460
Married or living with a common-law partner 2,130
Married (and not separated) 1,830
Living common law 300
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 1,335
Single (never legally married) 825
Separated 120
Divorced 180
Widowed 205
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 1,240
Size of census family: 2 persons 590
Size of census family: 3 persons 245
Size of census family: 4 persons 245
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 155
Total number of census families in private households8 1,240
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 1,045
Married couples 895
Without children at home 410
With children at home 485
1 child 140
2 children 200
3 or more children 140
Common-law couples 150
Without children at home 75
With children at home 70
1 child 40
2 children 25
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 195
Female parent 160
1 child 85
2 children 50
3 or more children 25
Male parent 40
1 child 25
2 children 10
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 1,460
Under six years of age 390
6 to 14 years 615
15 to 17 years 200
18 to 24 years 195
25 years and over 65
Average number of children at home per census family 1.2
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 4,365
Number of persons not in census families 625
Living with relatives9 80
Living with non-relatives only 120
Living alone 430
Number of census family persons 3,740
Average number of persons per census family 3.0
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 470
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 185
Living with relatives9 15
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 170
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 290
Total number of private households by household type10 1,705
Census-family households 1,225
One-family-only households11 1,150
Couple-family households12 990
Without children 460
With children 525
Lone-parent-family households 160
Other family households13 80
One-family households with persons not in a census family 65
Couple-family households14 35
Without children 15
With children 20
Lone-parent-family households 30
Two-or-more-family households 15
Non-census-family households 475
One-person households 430
Two-or-more-person households 50
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 1,705
Single-detached house 1,180
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 190
Other dwelling17 335
Semi-detached house 80
Row house 125
Apartment, duplex 15
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 110
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 1,705
1 person 430
2 persons 590
3 persons 260
4 persons 245
5 persons 120
6 or more persons 65
Number of persons in private households 4,370
Average number of persons in private households 2.6
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,415
  Single responses  4,385
    English  3,845
    French  70
    Non-official languages  470
      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 460
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  10
        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  5
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  5
        Chinese, n.o.s.  10
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  30
        Estonian  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  290
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  5
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  5
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  25
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  5
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  5
        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  10
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  15
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  10
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  5
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 15
  Multiple responses          40
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  25
    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 4,420
  English only 4,150
  French only 0
  English and French 260
  Neither English nor French 10
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 4,420
  English 4,360
  French 50
  English and French 5
  Neither English nor French 5
Official language minority (number)23 55
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 4,415
  Single responses 4,375
    English 4,270
    French 20
    Non-official languages 85
      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 85
        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. 5
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 5
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 5
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 35
        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) 15
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 0
        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) 10
        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         45
    English and French 5
    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 4,420
  None 4,145
  Single responses  270
    English  45
    French  45
    Non-official languages  185
      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 175
        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  5
        Finnish  5
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  100
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  5
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  5
        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  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  15
        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  10
        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  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 5
  Multiple responses          5
    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.

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