How many people usually live in your household?

 

2 3 4 5 6 7 or more
% % % % % %
Canada 2.8 14.7 40.0 24.0 10.9 7.5
N.L. 0.0 17.9 46.2 17.9 12.8 5.1
P.E.I. 0.0 13.0 31.5 31.5 14.8 9.3
N.S. 3.4 17.8 38.6 21.9 11.4 6.9
N.B. 3.3 14.8 42.3 28.0 7.7 3.8
Que. 3.7 17.3 38.6 24.8 9.6 5.9
Ont. 2.9 14.4 40.3 24.1 11.1 7.2
Man. 1.1 18.4 25.3 22.4 14.9 17.8
Sask. 2.5 11.9 35.6 27.2 12.3 10.6
Alta. 2.5 14.3 41.4 23.6 10.7 7.4
B.C. 2.9 17.1 40.0 22.6 8.5 8.9
Territories 0.0 14.5 38.7 27.4 12.9 6.5

 

Note: ‘Territories’ includes Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon.

We removed one-person households because of the small percentage of students in this category.

The lesson How many people live in a Canadian household? uses this data to study the mean, median and mode.

Source: Census at School Canada, 2015-2016