Canadian Census Maps

Explore the 2016 and 2021 Canadian Census of Population on a map.

Language

Census year

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Area

For example, your home town, a Census subdivision name, or a postal code

Topic

Languages, official or not, in which people can conduct a conversation. People who speak several languages are counted under each.

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Percentages are computed only over the population in private households, which excludes residents of collective dwellings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, prisons, and university residences. A dissemination area dominated by such a facility can have a much smaller percentage denominator than its overall population suggests.

These estimates come from the long-form questionnaire, which was distributed to a 25% sample of private households. They are subject to sampling variability and may differ from a full enumeration. Read more

“n.o.s.” means “not otherwise specified”: a broader group reported without a specific subcategory. “n.i.e.” means “not included elsewhere”: a residual catch-all for entries outside the main published list. Read more

To protect confidentiality, Statistics Canada randomly rounds census counts up or down to a multiple of 5 or 10. Totals are rounded independently of their parts, so sub-totals may not match the total and percentages may not add up to 100%. Read more

Knowledge of languages: Tamil

0.7%

2.4%

4.5%

6.9%

8.4%