In 2021, French was the first language spoken by over 71 percent of the population of Montréal, Québec in Canada. 20.4 percent of the city's residents had English as their first language, 6.7 percent used both English and French as their primary language, and 1.6 percent of the population spoke another language.
That same year, 46.4 percent of people living in the province of Québec could speak both English and French.
Distribution of people living in Montréal, Québec in Canada in 2021, by first official language spoken and gender
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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