Table 3
Language spoken predominantly at home, provinces and territories, 2016 and 2021
| 2016 – Population who spoke predominantly English at home | 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly English at home | 2016 to 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly English at home | 2016 – Population who spoke predominantly French at home | 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly French at home | 2016 to 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly French at home | 2016 – Population who spoke predominantly another language at home | 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly another language at home | 2016 to 2021 – Population who spoke predominantly another language at home | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | percentage points | % | % | percentage points | % | % | percentage points | |
| Canada | 63.7 | 63.8 | 0.1 | 20.0 | 19.2 | -0.8 | 11.5 | 12.7 | 1.2 |
| Quebec | 9.7 | 10.4 | 0.7 | 79.0 | 77.5 | -1.5 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 0.6 |
| Canada outside Quebec | 80.1 | 79.8 | -0.3 | 2.1 | 1.9 | -0.2 | 12.8 | 14.1 | 1.3 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 98.0 | 97.9 | -0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 |
| Prince Edward Island | 94.1 | 91.3 | -2.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | -0.2 | 3.2 | 6.0 | 2.8 |
| Nova Scotia | 94.7 | 93.4 | -1.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | -0.3 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 1.3 |
| New Brunswick | 68.7 | 69.1 | 0.4 | 28.0 | 26.4 | -1.6 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.8 |
| Ontario | 77.6 | 77.4 | -0.2 | 2.1 | 1.8 | -0.3 | 14.4 | 15.7 | 1.3 |
| Manitoba | 82.1 | 81.8 | -0.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 | -0.2 | 11.5 | 13.0 | 1.5 |
| Saskatchewan | 89.1 | 88.8 | -0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -0.1 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 0.7 |
| Alberta | 82.6 | 82.5 | -0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | -0.2 | 12.0 | 13.0 | 1.0 |
| British Columbia | 79.0 | 78.5 | -0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -0.1 | 15.6 | 17.1 | 1.5 |
| Yukon | 90.7 | 89.5 | -1.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 1.1 |
| Northwest Territories | 87.7 | 87.2 | -0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 0.1 |
| Nunavut | 46.7 | 46.5 | -0.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | -0.1 | 50.6 | 42.2 | -8.4 |
Note(s):
In the cycles prior to the 2021 Census, the population who spoke predominantly another language at home also included those who spoke two or more other languages at home equally most often.
Source(s):
Census of Population, 2016 and 2021 (3901).
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