Who lives here? How old are we? Where did we come from?

Life Expectancy – For someone born in the Capital Region between 2002 and 2006, their life expectancy is 81.6 years compared to 80.9 for someone born in BC.
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Youth Population – Using the 2006 Census, 14.1% of Greater Victoria’s total population were youth age 14 and under, down from 15.2% in 2001. In comparison, 16.5% of BC’s population and 17.7% of Canada’s was 14 and under in 2006.
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Elderly Population – In 2006, 17.8% of Greater Victoria’s population was 65 and older, the same as it was in 2001. In BC, people 65 and older made up 14.6% of the province’s population, and in Canada, they represented 13.7%.
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Foreign-born Population - In 2006 there were 61,980 people living in Greater Victoria who were born outside of Canada or 19.1% of the total population, compared with 18.8% (57,590 people) in 2001.
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Median Family Income – The median family income in Greater Victoria in 2006 was $71,500, up from $66,900 in 2005.
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Visible Minority Population – Of the total population in Greater Victoria, 10.4% were classified as a visible minority in 2006, up from 8.9% in 2001.
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Single Parent Families – Of the 91,935 families in Greater Victoria in 2006, 15.9% had a single parent, compared to 16.0% in 2001.
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Non-English First Language – In 2006, 5.4% of the residents of the Capital Region (18,520 people) spoke a language other than English in their home, compared with 16.1% of the residents of BC. The top three non-English languages spoken at home in the Capital Region are Chinese, Punjabi and Cantonese. > 
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Capital Region Population
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Greater Victoria’s Population by Origin, 2006
> Source: Statistics Canada
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Median Age in Canadian Cities Publishing Vital Signs, 2006
Source: Statistics Canada