Canadian Census Maps

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

Language

Census year

Ask the census

Ask in plain English, get neighbourhoods ranked on the map.

Area

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

Topic

First language learned at home in childhood and still understood.

All of Canada

Single responses
- Official languages
- Non-official languages
  - Indigenous languages
  - Non-Indigenous languages
    - Afro-Asiatic languages
    - Austro-Asiatic languages
    - Austronesian languages
    - Creole languages
    - Dravidian languages
      - Kannada
      - Malayalam
      - Tamil
      - Telugu
      - Tulu
      - Dravidian languages, n.i.e.
    - Georgian
    - Hmong-Mien languages
    - Indo-European languages
    - Japanese
    - Korean
    - Mongolian
    - Niger-Congo languages
    - Nilo-Saharan languages
    - Sign languages
    - Sino-Tibetan languages
    - Tai-Kadai languages
    - Turkic languages
    - Uralic languages
    - Other languages, n.i.e.
Multiple responses

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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.

“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

Mother tongue: Tamil

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4.2%

5.4%