Table 5
Proportion of eligible children younger than 18 years,1 by distance from place of residence to nearest minority official language school2 and by selected urban and rural areas,3 Canada, Canada outside Quebec, provinces and territories, 2021
| Less than 1 km | 1 km to less than 2 km | 2 km to less than 3 km | 3 km to less than 4 km | 4 km to less than 5 km | 5 km to less than 10 km | 10 km to less than 15 km | 15 km to less than 20 km | 20 km or more | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Canada | 23.5 | 20.3 | 12.9 | 9.2 | 6.5 | 14.5 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 6.3 |
| Urban area | 27.4 | 23.2 | 14.2 | 9.7 | 6.5 | 12.1 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 3.3 |
| Rural area | 4.4 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 26.2 | 14.4 | 8.1 | 21.3 |
| Quebec | 32.6 | 23.7 | 11.5 | 6.5 | 4.3 | 10.7 | 4.2 | 1.8 | 4.7 |
| Urban area | 37.1 | 26.8 | 12.7 | 6.8 | 4.0 | 7.8 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
| Rural area | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 6.3 | 29.9 | 18.5 | 8.9 | 21.0 |
| Canada outside Quebec | 19.1 | 18.6 | 13.6 | 10.5 | 7.6 | 16.3 | 4.9 | 2.5 | 7.1 |
| Urban area | 22.3 | 21.3 | 15.0 | 11.2 | 7.8 | 14.3 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| Rural area | 4.8 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 6.6 | 24.9 | 12.9 | 7.8 | 21.4 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 7.4 | 12.8 | 7.8 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 14.9 | 7.9 | 3.9 | 38.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | 5.0 | 5.8 | 10.0 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 28.9 | 13.4 | 7.6 | 10.4 |
| Nova Scotia | 6.7 | 8.5 | 10.9 | 11.8 | 10.7 | 20.6 | 10.9 | 5.3 | 14.5 |
| New Brunswick | 24.5 | 20.1 | 11.8 | 9.2 | 7.0 | 17.1 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| Ontario | 24.5 | 22.2 | 14.6 | 10.8 | 7.0 | 10.7 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 4.1 |
| Manitoba | 13.7 | 13.9 | 12.6 | 9.8 | 8.0 | 18.2 | 5.7 | 2.9 | 15.3 |
| Saskatchewan | 6.9 | 11.4 | 12.6 | 11.0 | 9.1 | 18.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 24.8 |
| Alberta | 6.5 | 10.1 | 11.6 | 11.2 | 10.1 | 31.9 | 6.7 | 2.9 | 8.9 |
| British Columbia | 6.2 | 12.2 | 13.4 | 9.7 | 7.5 | 28.6 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 12.2 |
| Yukon | 19.6 | 21.3 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 17.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 23.3 |
| Northwest Territories | 27.7 | 36.1 | 6.2 | 11.4 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 14.9 |
| Nunavut | 25.0 | 19.1 | 12.6 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37.3 |
Source(s):
Census of Population, 2021 (3901) and Official Language Minority Schools Database, 2022.
Table note 1
Includes eligible children younger than 18 years as of December 31, 2020, but excludes children living on reserve or in Nunavik because the schools located there are not under the jurisdiction of an official language minority school authority, with some exceptions.
Table note 2
The distance between eligible children and the nearest official language minority school is the distance, as the crow flies, between the centre of the block where the eligible child lives and the exact coordinates of the nearest official language minority school.
Table note 3
Urban children are the eligible children whose place of residence is in population centres, while rural children live outside population centres.
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