Population Make Up

Age

• Mean age of residents in the Village of Pemberton in 2006 was 32.7 years (BC compares as 40.8 years)
• 80.6% of the population was over the age of 15 (BC compares as 83.5%)
• 5% of the population was 60 years or older (BC compares as 20%)

Gender

• The male/female population split is 52/48 (BC compares as 51/49)

Mobility

• 32% of the population has lived in their current place of residence for 5 years or more
• 24% of the population lived in the same census subdivision
• 27% of the population lived in a different census subdivision in BC
• 15% lived out of BC or Canada
• This compares to BC respectively as 53%, 23%, 14%, and 10%

Origin

• 45% of Pemberton’s population is aboriginal
• 81.5% of the population’s mother tongue is English, 8% French, 1.5% English/French, 9% other languages
• The following visible minorities comprise part of the Pemberton population: 4.3% Chinese, 0.45% Filipino, 3% Japanese, 0.45% multiple minorities