Demographics of Prince Edward Island

Demographics of the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. According to the 2011 National Household Survey, the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent (39.2%), followed by English (31.1%), Irish (30.4%), French (21.1%), German (5.2%), and Dutch (3.1%) descent. Prince Edward Island is mostly a white community and there are few visible minorities. Chinese people are the largest visible minority group of Prince Edward Island, comprising 1.3% of the province's population. Almost half of respondents identified their ethnicity as "Canadian." Most readers will not know that Prince Edward Island is by a strong margin the most Celtic and specifically the most Scottish province in Canada (often thought to be Nova Scotia) and perhaps the most Scottish place (ethnically) in the world, outside of Scotland. 38% of islanders claim Scottish ancestry, but this is an underestimate and it is thought that almost 50% of islanders have Scottish roots. When combined with Irish and Welsh, almost 80% of islanders are of some Celtic stock, albeit most families have resided in PEI for at least two centuries. Few places outside Europe can claim such a homogenous Celtic ethnic background. Certainly, in a North American context, the only other jurisdiction with such a high percentage of British Isles heritage would be Newfoundland.

Population 1
- City Metropolitan Areas 1.1
- Cities and towns 1.2
- Population of Prince Edward Island since 1851 1.3
Visible minorities and Aboriginals 2
Ethnic groups 3
Languages 4
Migration 5
- Immigration 5.1
- Internal migration 5.2
Religious Groups 6
See also 7
References 8

Population

City Metropolitan Areas

City	2011	2006	Land Area km²	Density /km²
Charlottetown	64,487	59,325	798.54	80.8
Summerside	16,488	16,153	91.85	179.5

Cities and towns

Town	Population (2011)	Population Ranking	Land Area km²	Area Ranking	Density /km²	Density Ranking
Alberton	1,135	8	4.50	5	252.1	8
Charlottetown	34,562	1	44.33	1	779.7	1
Cornwall	5,162	4	28.20	3	183.1	9
Georgetown	675	9	1.65	9	409.6	5
Kensington	1,496	6	3.02	8	495.4	4
Montague	1,895	5	3.04	7	622.7	2
Souris	1,173	7	3.42	6	342.8	7
Stratford	8,574	3	22.48	4	381.4	6
Summerside	14,751	2	28.36	2	520.1	3

Population of Prince Edward Island since 1851

Population of Prince Edward Island since 1851
Year	Population	Mean annual % change	Five Year % change	Ten Year % change	Rank Among Provinces
1851	62,678	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
1861	80,857	2.6	n/a	29.0	5
1871	94,021	1.5	n/a	16.3	5
1881	108,891	1.5	n/a	15.8	5
1891	109,078	0.017	n/a	0.2	6
1901	103,259	−0.55	n/a	-5.3	7
1911	93,728	−0.96	n/a	-9.2	9
1921	88,615	−0.56	n/a	-5.4	9
1931	88,038	−0.065	n/a	-0.7	9
1941	95,047	0.77	n/a	8.0	9
1951	98,429	0.35	n/a	3.6	10
1956	99,285	0.17	0.9	n/a	10
1961	104,629	1.1	5.4	6.3	10
1966	108,535	0.74	3.7	9.3	10
1971	111,635	0.56	2.9	6.7	10
1976	118,225	1.2	5.9	8.9	10
1981	122,506	0.7	3.6	9.7	10
1986	126,640	0.67	3.4	7.1	10
1991	129,765	0.49	2.5	5.9	10
1996	134,557	0.73	3.7	6.3	10
2001	135,294	0.11	0.5	4.2	10
2006	138,581	0.47	2.4	2.9	10
2011	140,204	0.25	1.2	3.6	10

Source: Statistics Canada^[1]^[2]

Visible minorities and Aboriginals

Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census)
Population group		Population	% of total population
White		130,650	7001974000000000000♠97.4%
Visible minority group Source:^[3]	South Asian	130	6999100000000000000♠0.1%
	Chinese	250	6999200000000000000♠0.2%
	Black	645	6999500000000000000♠0.5%
	Filipino	30	5000000000000000000♠0%
	Latin American	215	6999200000000000000♠0.2%
	Arab	260	6999200000000000000♠0.2%
	Southeast Asian	30	5000000000000000000♠0%
	West Asian	30	5000000000000000000♠0%
	Korean	70	6999100000000000000♠0.1%
	Japanese	65	5000000000000000000♠0%
	Visible minority, n.i.e.	60	5000000000000000000♠0%
	Multiple visible minority	25	5000000000000000000♠0%
Total visible minority population		1,825	7000140000000000000♠1.4%
Aboriginal group Source:^[4]	First Nations	1,230	6999900000000000000♠0.9%
	Métis	385	6999300000000000000♠0.3%
	Inuit	30	5000000000000000000♠0%
	Aboriginal, n.i.e.	75	6999100000000000000♠0.1%
	Multiple Aboriginal identity	10	5000000000000000000♠0%
Total Aboriginal population		1,730	7000130000000000000♠1.3%
Total population		134,205	100%

Ethnic groups

Nationalities in Canada

Ethnic Origin	Population	Percent
Canadian	60,000	44.98%
Scottish	50,700	38.01%
English	38,330	28.74%
Irish	37,170	27.87%
French	28,410	21.30%
German	5,400	4.05%
Dutch (Netherlands)	4,130	3.10%
Acadian	3,020	2.26%
North American Indian	2,360	1.77%
Welsh	1,440	1.08%
American (USA)	640
Polish	615
Italian	605
Lebanese	525
Danish	420
Norwegian	325
Ukrainian	320
Swedish	315
Belgian	240
Métis	245
Chinese	225
Hungarian (Magyar)	225
British, not included elsewhere	210
Spanish	175
Jewish	165
Russian	160
Swiss	145
Finnish	135
Inuit	120

Information taken from the Canada 2001 Census..^[5]

* These percentages sum to more than 100% due to dual responses (e.g. "French-Canadian" generating an entry in both "French" and "Canadian" categories.) Groups with greater than 1,000 responses are included.

Languages

The 2006 Canadian census showed a population of 135,851. Of the 133,570 singular responses to the question concerning mother tongue the most commonly reported languages were:

Place	Language	Population	Percentage
1	English	125,260	93.78%
2	French	5,345	4.00%
3	Dutch	865	0.65%
4	German	275	0.21%
5	Spanish	220	0.16%
6	Chinese languages	190	0.14%
	Mandarin	45	0.03%
	Cantonese	15	0.01%
7	Arabic	150	0.11%
8	Hungarian	120	0.09%
9	Algonquian languages	95	0.07%
	Mi'kmaq	90	0.07%
10	Serbo-Croatian languages	85	0.07%
	Serbian	35	0.03%
	Croatian	20	0.01%
	Bosnian	15	0.01%
	Serbo-Croatian	15	0.01%
11	Japanese	80	0.06%
12	Bantu languages	70	0.05%
12	Polish	70	0.05%
14	Korean	65	0.05%
14	Scandinavian languages	65	0.05%
	Danish	40	0.03%
	Swedish	15	0.01%
	Icelandic	10	0.01%
16	Frisian	55	0.04%
16	Italian	55	0.04%
18	Flemish	40	0.03%
18	Hindi	40	0.03%
20	Creole	35	0.03%
20	Urdu	35	0.03%

There were also 30 single-language responses for Greek and Niger-Congo languages n.i.e.; 25 for Russian; 20 for Ukrainian; 15 for Finnish, Germanic languages n.i.e., Inuktitut, Maltese, Persian and Tagalog; and 10 for Czech, Estonian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Turkish and Vietnamese. In addition, there were also 105 responses of English and a non-official language; 25 of French and a non-official language; 495 of English and French; and 10 of English, French, and a non-official language. (Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses.)^[6]

Migration

Immigration

The 2006 Canadian census counted a total of 4,785 immigrants living in Prince Edward Island.
The most commonly reported origins for these immigrants were:

^[7]

Place	Country	Population
1	United States	1,255
2	United Kingdom	1,165
3	Netherlands	500
4	Germany	225
5	Yugoslavia	140
6	Belgium	85
7	Colombia	70
7	South Korea	70
9	Australia	65
9	New Zealand	65
11	China	60
11	Lebanon	60

There were also about fifty-five immigrants from Denmark; about fifty each from India, Japan, and Poland; about forty-five each from Hungary, Sierra Leone, and Syria; and about thirty-five from Zimbabwe.

Internal migration

A total of 16,205 people moved to Prince Edward Island from other parts of Canada between 1996 and 2006 while 15,445 people moved in the opposite direction. These movements resulted in a net outmigration of 1,450 people to Alberta; and a net influx of 700 people from Newfoundland and Labrador, 530 from Ontario, 295 from Nova Scotia, 180 from New Brunswick, 150 from British Columbia, and 110 from Manitoba. During this period there was also a net outmigration of 165 francophones to Quebec, and a net influx of 145 anglophones from Quebec. (All net inter-provincial and official minority movements of more than 100 persons are given.)^[8]

Religious Groups

Religion	Population	Percent
Total population	133,385	100.0%
Roman Catholic	63,240	47.4%
United Church	26,570	19.9%
No religion	8,705	6.5%
Presbyterian	7,885	5.9%
Anglican	6,525	4.9%
Baptist	5,950	4.5%
Protestant not included elsewhere	5,105	3.8%
Christian not included elsewhere	3,210	2.4%
Pentecostal	975	0.7%
Jehovah's Witnesses	475	0.4%
Salvation Army	340	0.3%
Mormon	215	0.2%
Christian Reformed Church	205	0.2%
Muslim	195	0.1%
Brethren in Christ	165	0.1%
Non-denominational	165	0.1%
Lutheran	160	0.1%
Buddhist	140	0.1%
Greek Orthodox	110	0.1%
Orthodox not included elsewhere	70	0.1%
Jewish	55	0.0%
Aboriginal spirituality	50	0.0%
Pagan	45	0.0%
Seventh-day Adventist	35	0.0%
Hindu	35	0.0%
Ukrainian Catholic	15	0.0%
Evangelical Missionary Church	10	0.0%
Mennonite	10	0.0%
Methodist	10	0.0%

Information taken from the 2001 Canadian Census.^[5]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlottetown comprises the entire Island and is the second oldest English diocese in Canada. The Archdiocese of Kingston is the oldest.

References

-- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --

local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno

local p = {}

-- Helper functions

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local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end

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function p.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) -- Formats an error message to be returned to wikitext. If -- addTrackingCategory is not false after being returned from -- Module:Yesno, and if we are not on a talk page, a tracking category -- is added. checkType('makeWikitextError', 1, msg, 'string') checkType('makeWikitextError', 2, helpLink, 'string', true) yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle() -- Make the help link text. local helpText if helpLink then helpText = ' (help)' else helpText = end -- Make the category text. local category if not title.isTalkPage and yesno(addTrackingCategory) ~= false then category = 'Hatnote templates with errors' category = string.format( '%s:%s', mw.site.namespaces[14].name, category ) else category = end return string.format( '%s', msg, helpText, category ) end

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function p.formatLink(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local link = args[1] local display = args[2] if not link then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no link specified', 'Template:Format hatnote link#Errors', args.category ) end return p._formatLink(link, display) end

function p._formatLink(link, display) -- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the -- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links -- categorise the page and file links display the file. checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string') checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true) link = removeInitialColon(link) local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false) local colon if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then colon = ':' else colon = end -- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the | magic -- word. if not display then local prePipe, postPipe = link:match('^(.-)|(.*)$') link = prePipe or link display = postPipe end -- Find the display value. if not display then local page, section = link:match('^(.-)#(.*)$') if page then display = page .. ' § ' .. section end end -- Assemble the link. if display then return string.format('%s', colon, link, display) else return string.format('%s%s', colon, link) end end

-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.

function p.hatnote(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local s = args[1] local options = {} if not s then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no text specified', 'Template:Hatnote#Errors', args.category ) end options.extraclasses = args.extraclasses options.selfref = args.selfref return p._hatnote(s, options) end

function p._hatnote(s, options) checkType('_hatnote', 1, s, 'string') checkType('_hatnote', 2, options, 'table', true) local classes = {'hatnote'} local extraclasses = options.extraclasses local selfref = options.selfref if type(extraclasses) == 'string' then classes[#classes + 1] = extraclasses end if selfref then classes[#classes + 1] = 'selfref' end return string.format( '

', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )

end

return p-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --