Non-Official Languages Spoken at Home

This section describes the usage of non-official languages spoken most often at home within Sudbury and districts. It also describes languages spoken most often at work. For information pertaining to the usage of language in terms of mother tongue, language spoken at home and knowledge of official languages please refer to our website for the Official Languages section.

Highlights

Note: Numbers may not add up due to random rounding up or down to units of 5.

Source: 2016 Census, Statistics Canada

Table 2.1a: Indigenous non-official languages spoken most often at home, by geographic area, 2016

Indigenous Non-official languages spoken most often at homeManitoulin DistrictSudbury DistrictGreater SudburySudbury and
districts
Ontario
Total Indigenous languages68010507409,210
Ojibway (% of indigenous languages)650
95.6%
10
3.5%
35
70.0%
695
94.0%
6,305
68.5%
Other Aboriginal languages* (% of indigenous languages)25
3.7%
0
0.0%
15
30.0%
40
5.4%
2,905
31.5%

Highlights

Note: Numbers may not add up due to random rounding up or down to units of 5.

Source: 2016 Census, Statistics Canada

Table 2.1b: Non-Indigenous non-official languages spoken most often at home, by geographic area, 2016

Non-Indigenous non-official languages spoken most often at homeManitoulin DistrictSudbury DistrictGreater SudburySudbury and
districts
Ontario
Total non-Indigenous languages (% of non-official languages)552753,2053,5351,907,105
Italian (% of non-indigenous languages)5
9.1%
5
1.8%
700
21.8%
710
20.1%
72,960
3.8%
Finnish (% of non-indigenous languages)0
0.0%
15
5.5%
280
8.7%
295
8.3%
1,835
0.1%
German (% of non-indigenous languages)15
27.3%
115
41.8%
70
2.2%
200
5.7%
37,255
2.0%
Spanish (% of non-indigenous languages)5
9.1%
5
1.8%
140
4.4%
150
4.2%
104,820
5.5%
Other non-Indigenous languages (% of non-indigenous languages)30
54.5%
135
49.1%
2,015
62.9%
2,180
61.7%
1,690,235
88.6%

Source: 2016 Census, Statistics Canada

 


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