The number of multi-generational families, or at least three generations living under the same roof, increased 37.5% but still only makeup 2.9% of all households across the country, or 3.9% in Ontario.
New Brunswick saw one of the biggest jumps in English-French bilingualism rates across the country, giving it the second highest bilingualism rate after Quebec, according to the latest census data from Statistics Canada.
For the first time in the country's history, the number of one-person households has surpassed all other types of living situation.
During that same period, the percentage of young people living with families of their own declined to 41.9 per cent from 49.1 per cent.
The bilingualism rate in Canada hit 18 per cent previous year, with two-thirds of the growth in the bilingual population emanating from Quebec, even though bilingualism increased in most provinces and territories.
The number of couples without children increased faster between 2011 and 2016 than those with children - a function of an aging population with parents becoming empty nesters.
Arabic is now the third-largest reported mother tongue in the province, accounting for 2,855 people, followed by Mandarin 2,255, and Indigenous languages, 2,160.
While married couples still account for the majority of unions, more than a fifth of Canadian couples lived in a common-law situation in 2016 - up from just 6.3 per cent in 1981.
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While the percentage of kids living with a mom or a dad has been increasing for decades, the proportion who were living with their father increased by 34.5 per cent between 2001 and 2016, while the proportion who were living with their mother increase by just 4 per cent.
Knowledge of both French and English rose by 7.9 per cent between 2011 and 2016, the census found, but the number of people who knew neither tongue increased by 8.9 per cent over the same time frame, with sharp increases coming in particular from those over the age of 65.
Although there were slightly more male than female same-sex couples past year, a slightly higher proportion of the female couples were married. It was 78.9% in 2016, 80.2% in 2011, and 82.4% in 2001.
The percentage of same sex couples in Canada is rising. Those who say they speak Italian at home fell 10.9%, Polish fell 5.5% and German 3.3%.
Canada's 35.15 million people are getting older; there are now more seniors than children under the age of 14.
Official languages are not the only ones growing however with over 200 languages now spoken in Canada according to the census.
The census also found that some Canadian homes adopt Indigenous languages even if it isn't their mother tongue: 228,770 people said they speak an Aboriginal language at home, even though only 213,230 people reported having an Indigenous mother tongue.
Those who named English or French as their mother tongue decreased, as it has in each census.
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